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Film critic Peter Rainer reflects on a 30-year career
Peter Rainer, noted Christian Science Monitor film critic, Bloomberg News columnist and reviewer for NPR's FilmWeek, reflects upon his three-decade career in "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era." Rainer,...
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Composer Richard Wagner's 200th birthday will be marked worldwide
Richard Wagner -- the 19th century composer whose epic operas are considered to be among the greatest ever written and whose anti-Semitic views still cause controversy -- was born 200 years ago Wednesday in Leipzig, Germany. The composer's...
Tags: Judaism, Django Unchained (movie), Music, Melancholia (movie), Religion and Belief
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'Unmade in China': Making a movie turns into a comedy of errors ★★★ 1/2
Movies about the difficulty of making movies shouldn't work at all, really. The potential for navel-gazing is immense. The narcissistic insularity of the topic is potentially galling. Yet the best of these films, especially in the documentary realm,...
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Philip X. "Phil" Kaltenbach, English teacher
Philip X. "Phil" Kaltenbach, a former high school English teacher who later became an expert in the field of collectible comic books, died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla., while recovering from foot surgery. He was 63.
The son...Tags: Arts and Culture, Linthicum, Teachers, Literature, Towson
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Dennis Hopper's carnival ride through life
"I was a beatnik, and then I was a hippie, and before that I was a bohemian," a sky-high Dennis Hopper confided to Merv Griffin on television one night in 1971, in a clip you can see on YouTube. On the opposite couch, Willie Mays uncomfortably refilled...
Tags: Paul Newman, Arts and Culture, Nikon Corp, Easy Rider (movie), Dennis Hopper
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A Wagner 'Ring' that's sustainably powered
MUNICH, Germany — Wagner's "The Ring of Nibelung" is no picnic. The epic four-evening mythic drama is the macho challenge with which operas prove themselves. It practically did in Los Angeles Opera when the company finally got around to mounting...Tags: Arts and Culture, Germany, Festive Events, The Happiest News!, Music
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An air of creative writing
How do you write Lin's Bin? Lin's Bin starts with a question. Is it OK to compliment a woman on her breasts? Where does the time go? Why are teenagers so cranky? The questions come from clueless frat boys, from wistful mothers, from grade school kids...
Tags: Large Hadron Collider Experiments, Radio, Science and Technology, Semiconductors and Active Components, The End (movie)
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5 things to do in London that are not the Olympics
Tribune Media ServicesLondon is hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics from July 27 to Aug. 12. While the Games are sure to be a spectacular event, there are plenty of other options for those travelers who couldn't get tickets, blew that 100-yard dash or just happen to be in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Radio, 2012 Summer Olympics, Nelson Mandela, Jack White
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Da Nang, Vietnam's Surf City
Three years ago, Quentin Derrick was eating clams at a beach-side restaurant in Da Nang. As he gazed east at the South China Sea, he couldn't believe what was rolling in.
Derrick has lived in Vietnam for eight years and surfed a good part of the...Tags: UNESCO, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rentals, Trips and Vacations, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Book review: A father and son find common ground in 'Along the Way'
Martin Sheen was a struggling 21-year-old stage actor when his first son Emilio was born. Sheen, seventh of 10 children in a family that knew him as Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez instead of his stage name, was more accustomed to having siblings than being...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Martin Sheen, Pacific Ocean, Salads, Book
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On Oscars: The best often don't win
On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...Tags: Orson Welles, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Sinatra, Human Interest, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)
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Joseph Farrell dies at 76; introduced market testing to Hollywood
As founder, chairman and chief executive of National Research Group Inc. from 1978 to 2003, movie market researcher Joseph Farrell introduced the concept of market testing to Hollywood, originating now-standard industry practices such as audience tracking...Tags: Arts and Culture, Alcon Incorporated, St. John's University, Research, Noise (movie)
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