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Extreme 'Lear': Robert Falls gets audacious with the great tragedy, but did Stacy Keach get the memo?
Tribune theater criticYou can set "King Lear" on the moon, or -- like the Goodman Theatre's endlessly audacious Robert Falls -- in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European world of guns, vodka, petty fiefdoms and crushing sexual cruelty. No matter. This great play will still try to...Tags: Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Death, Goodman Theatre, Family, Music Theater
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Alfred A. Knopf Jr. dies at 90; influential publisher
Associated PressAlfred A. Knopf Jr., son of publishing legends and an influential publisher in his own right, died Saturday in New York of medical complications from a fall in mid-January, according to his wife, Alice. He was 90. Knopf, known as Pat, was the only...Tags: Death, World War II (1939-1945), New York, Book, James Merrill
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Words & ideas
MONDAY
William Whitecloud The author of "The Magician's Way" will discuss and sign his book. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. Free. (310) 659-1733.
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David Denby The film critic for the New Yorker will discuss his...Tags: Acton, Pluto (fictional animal), University of Southern California, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), University of California, Los Angeles
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'A Thousand Words' writers hope it's the start of something big
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat. John Guare and Wassily Kandinsky. Edward Albee and Louise Nevelson. Throughout theater history, writers have mined the works and biographies of artists to create such vastly different dramas as "Sunday in the Park...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Literature, Los Angeles, Sam Shepard, Culture
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PASSINGS
Albert L. Greene Hospital president Albert L. Greene, 59, president and chief executive of Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys since 2006, died Thursday at his home in Calabasas. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June, the hospital...Tags: Death, Harold Prince, University of Southern California, Health, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Milton Katselas dies at 75; acting teacher and director
Milton Katselas, a prominent acting teacher and director whose students included George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer and hundreds of other actors, has died. He was 75.
Katselas, who founded the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school in 1978,...Tags: Death, Gene Hackman, Health, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Tony Awards
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Tyne Daly plays a mama scorned in 'Agamemnon'
Times Theater CriticWHEN IT comes to pursuing the bad guys, few actors move mountains like Tyne Daly. For years on television she huffed and puffed after crooks as a New York City cop on "Cagney & Lacey." More recently, as a social worker on "Judging Amy," she battled for...Tags: Death, Family, New York City, Murder, Celebrities
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Emmy-winning actor Browne Dies at 81
Times Staff WriterRoscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor with the mellifluous baritone that he used to give voice to roles as varied as Shakespeare's plays and the popular animal film "Babe," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81....Tags: Death, World War II (1939-1945), Health, Bible, Family
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'Counselor at Law' Star Dies at 84
Times Staff WriterArthur Hill, a veteran actor whose career was punctuated by two distinctly different roles — the weary, abused husband in the Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the stalwart attorney in the television series "Owen Marshall:...Tags: Death, World War II (1939-1945), Health, Tony Awards, Ingrid Bergman
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Glenn Goldman, owner of Book Soup, dies at 58
Glenn Goldman, whose independent bookstore, Book Soup, became a Sunset Boulevard landmark known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele, died Saturday. He was 58....Tags: Death, Books, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Gore Vidal
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STEPPENWOLF STEPPIN' OUT
Deanna Dunagan was Broadway-bound and she was not happy.
It was mid-October and she was due to leave in a week for New York, where she would reprise her acclaimed performance as Violet Weston, the pill-addicted, cancer-stricken monster of a mother at the...Tags: Restaurants, Annette Bening, Dining and Drinking, Steppenwolf Theatre, Travel
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'Revolutionary Road'
Sam Mendes, the director of "Revolutionary Road," injects a few milligrams of hope into his film version of the 1961 Richard Yates novel, an excoriating portrait of a mid-1950s marriage built on sticks, straw and delusion. It is a harsh, merciless book....Tags: Real Estate Agents, Richard Yates, Michael Shannon, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates
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