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Marcia & Lorenzo are real cool geezers
![WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George [Clooney] right away." On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film "Darjeeling Limited" from the same YouTube site.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-12/34506376-31152404.jpg "WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when \"Michael Clayton\" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. \"It was terrific,\" he said. \"I sent it to George [Clooney] right away.\" On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film \"Darjeeling Limited\" from the same YouTube site.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George...Tags: YouTube, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (movie), Steve McQueen, Television, Movies
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'Girls Like Us' links lives of 3 singers
Chicago Tribune NewspapersSisterhood—in the family and body politic—can be a beautiful abstraction and a real pain in the neck. It's an evanescent ideal that sometimes takes shape in historic movements. And it's the cosmic force behind Sheila Weller as she tries to...Tags: New York, Mick Jagger, Erica Jong, Carole King, Anne Sexton
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Top Authors Set to Participate in 11th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 29-30 at UCLA
NOTE TO EDITORS: Advance registration is required for working media planning to cover the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Registration deadline is April 20. The registration form and directions are posted online at http://www.latimes.com/extras/...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Erica Jong, Carl Reiner, Society, Matt Groening
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Los Angeles' literary landscape
Times Staff WritersIn "Ramona," her 1884 novel of Southern California, Helen Hunt Jackson did more than tell the story of the illicit romance between a mestizo orphan and an Indian sheepherder. Caught in the pages of her famous melodrama is a picture of the land that is...Tags: Movies, Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West, Homes, Society
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Literary Focus Turns Westward for 11th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 29-30 at UCLA
NOTE TO EDITORS: Advance registration is required for working media planning to cover the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Registration deadline is April 20. The registration form and directions are posted online at http://www.latimes.com/extras/...Tags: 60 Minutes (tv program), Television, Erica Jong, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies
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'The Spare Room,' by Helen Garner
The Spare Room A Novel Helen Garner Henry Holt: 192 pp., $22 When a friend shares that she has late-stage cancer, compassion is easy to come by. We feel the shock of the diagnosis. We grieve for what may be ahead. We jump into action, volunteering...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Cancer, Death, Australia
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This town is rated noir
Special to The TimesNOIR is the indigenous Los Angeles form: It was created here, it grew up here and from here it spread, not only as a genre but as a way of looking at life, character and fate. As a framing lens, it's now so powerful that it seems not only to be a strategy...Tags: Michael Mann, Jack Nicholson, Movies, Journalism, Nathanael West
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Inside 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," time doesn't just slip away. It surges like a tsunami, swamping cities and washing aside human lives like so much Mississippi Delta topsoil. It rolls backward and forward like a movie projector, un-spooling the...Tags: Movies, Armistice Day, Natural Disasters, Mississippi, Entertainment
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The Gen X poster boy's endless ennui
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn his 1985 breakout novel, "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis, then all of 21 years old, created young, jaded Angelenos who just didn't care about anything: They recounted cocaine scores and semi-anonymous sex in the same tone with which they lamented...Tags: Don DeLillo, Culture, Edmund Wilson, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Thomas Pynchon
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Seeing the light, remembering the dark
Times Staff WriterTHE last time Los Angeles writer Deanne Stillman published a book on the high desert, she was met with angry editorials in a local paper, a bitter letter-writing campaign and complaints from locals. She couldn't write, her hair was strange, what did she...Tags: Horse (animal), Newspaper and Magazine, Juvenile Delinquency, Los Angeles Times, Fishing
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'Two Marriages: Novellas' by Phillip Lopate
Two Marriages
Novellas
Phillip Lopate
Other Press: 272 pp., $24.95
THE publication of new fictions -- the first in more than 20 years -- by one of our most reliable men of letters is an occasion worth marking and measuring. Phillip Lopate is best...Tags: Annie Dillard, Marriage, Manhattan (New York City), Breast, Death
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They conquered the 'Net in two original minutes
Times Staff WriterLINING the Strip, billboards the size of aircraft carriers herald the faces of headliners like the battle flags of nations: Elton John, Celine Dion, Toni Braxton. But on one weekend in November, a star whom some would describe as the biggest in all of...Tags: YouTube, Television, Google Inc., HBO (tv network), Hamburgers
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