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His wit was hard-boiled
Special to The TimesWE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...Tags: Colorado, Toys, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Susan Sontag, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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A Cold Haven For Treasured Films
Associated PressWhile Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. The recently reunited Technicolor duo could well be spending much of the rest of the millennium killing...Tags: National Government, Annie Oakley, Government, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), William McKinley
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Olympics become a hurdle
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS isn't exactly the show Chinese government officials had in mind when they signed on to host the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. They had envisioned a sporting event full of Hollywood splendor ( Steven Spielberg would serve as an artistic...Tags: Mia Farrow, Multi-Sport Events, Civil Rights, Olympic Games, Ang Lee
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Teach the controversy?
Today, Shermer and Lukianoff discuss efforts to include "intelligent design" and other such hypotheses in classroom curricula. Previously, they weighed allegations of instructor bias in college classrooms and debated what roles a school might have in...Tags: National Government, Joseph Goebbels, Michael Moore, Medical Specialization, Columbia University
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The torch in San Francisco
The Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis. According to historians, Adolf Hitler wanted to promote his belief in an Aryan master race by symbolically linking the 1936 Berlin Games to the ancient Greek gods and rituals, hence the carrying of the...Tags: History, Human Rights, Adolf Hitler, Demonstration
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Should celebrities set the global agenda?
It sometimes seems as though celebrities today are obsessed with trying to move the global agenda. Like Angelina Jolie. Think of how she's changed her image since her breakup with Billy Bob Thornton. In February, she published an Op-Ed article in the...Tags: Political Candidates, Television Industry, Fred Thompson, Mia Farrow, Hu Jintao
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'The Wind That Shakes the Barley'
Times Staff WriterFor director Ken Loach, the personal is always political, the political personal. The dean of British independent filmmakers, Loach has the gift of finding the intensely moving private emotions in broad, societal dilemmas. He does that with his fine new...Tags: Ken Loach, Wars and Interventions, Paul Laverty, Batman, Movies
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RATED C FOR CONTROVERSY
Special to the TribuneControversial movies can inspire audiences to react in a variety of ways. While some films might generate disgust or anger, others have led audiences to stand in picket lines, write furious letters to directors, movie studio executives or politicians and,...Tags: Willem Dafoe, Anthony Burgess, Michael Moore, Ku Klux Klan, Marlon Brando
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Film's take on Irish history rankles Brits
Zap2It.comParis — CROWNED at Cannes one minute only to be buried in Britain the next, Ken Loach's new film, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," arrives in the U.S. with a rabble-rousing reputation. In May, Loach marched up Cannes' red steps to receive his...Tags: Paul Laverty, Movies, John Ford, Adolf Hitler, Personal Finance
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Roman Genn's refined palette
MOSCOW-BORN, Los Angeles-based artist Roman Genn has come a long way from drawing Communist propaganda cartoons as child. His incisive caricatures have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country, often generating controversy with what he's...Tags: Ariel Dorfman, Santa Monica, Pablo Neruda, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Cartoons
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