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'Snow White's' Kristen Stewart still wants new 'East of Eden' pic
24 Frames"Snow White and the Huntsman" star Kristen Stewart, who has long said she loves "East of Eden," wants a new film version of the John Steinbeck classic. KStew made the comments in an interview with Garrett Hedlund, her costar in "On the Road."... -
Prix Goncourt goes to high school teacher Alexis Jenni
Jacket CopyFrance's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, was awarded to first-time novelist Alexis Jenni for his book "L'Art Français de la Guerre" (The French Art of War).... -
Live review: Rock the Bells still tolls for 1993
Pop & HissOld school’s in session as Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest party likes it’s 1993 at San Bernardino’s hip-hop hoedown. For a large swath of its audience, hip-hop’s center of gravity will always stay moored in 1993...... -
Getting bookishly appy with the iPhone
Jacket CopyLately people have been asking me with excitement what apps I've got on my iPhone, and I shrug and change the subject. It's a phone, it plays music, it gives me directions, it lets me e-mail from as many accounts...... -
Music review: Faure Quartett stopover
Culture MonsterThe Fauré Quartett -- which made its Los Angeles debut Saturday night in the ornate, domed Doheny Mansion at Mount St. Mary’s College – came across as four serious, scholarly seeming Germans doing their thing and doing it extremely well....... -
Critic's Notebook: Götterdämmerung’ -- twilight of a hypnotic spectacle
Culture MonsterThe end of the first complete cycle of Achim Freyer’s staging of the “Ring†for the Los Angeles Opera left me simultaneously energized and exhausted late Sunday night, as though I had just undergone intense hours of dreaming without the...... -
Happy 85th birthday, Elaine Stritch
Culture MonsterElaine Stritch celebrates her 85th birthday Tuesday night at the Café Carlyle. It’s the final performance of her cabaret show, “At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim... One Song at a Time,†and Stephen Sondheim (or rather Mr....... -
Genius and hypochondria
Jacket CopyWhat do Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Proust and Charles Darwin have in common? They were all hypochondriacs, according to Irish author Brian Dillon. In our pages today, Heller McAlpin reviews "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives"; the book, she writes:... -
Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Poetry, Lone (music group), Agatha Christie, Carlos Fuentes, Richard Ford
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From The Baltimore Sun archives: Andy Griffith -- Not just a face in the crowd
Baltimore Sun reporterNOTE: This is a 2007 story from The Baltimore Sun's archives. Andy Griffith, 81 a week from tomorrow, confides that "when my wife, Cindy, and I go someplace, and I don't want to be recognized, she says, 'Don't talk!'" Hearing him boom across the phone...Tags: Music, Culture, Elia Kazan, Andy Griffith, The New York Times
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Anna Quindlen talks with Printers Row Live
With Mother’s Day on the horizon, it was an early gift for many of author Anna Quindlen’s fans as she communed with her Chicago peeps in these early days of a national book tour for her newly published memoir, “Lots of Candles, Plenty of...
Tags: Facebook, Religion and Belief, Elizabeth Taylor, F-bomb Dropping, Entertainment Events
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The poetry of discussion
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Our Sulzer Regional Library Great Books Discussion Group has been meeting for more than 30 years. Annually, we pick a theme to guide our book selections and discussions. This year's theme is morality. Last year we read books dealing with...Tags: Upton Sinclair, Poetry, Anthony Powell, Literature, Arts and Culture
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