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John le Carre's 'A Delicate Truth' isn't gentle with war on terror
John le Carré's novels have responded brilliantly to the absence of the Cold War, which was, from 1963's classic "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" to "The Secret Pilgrim" in 1990, their traditional domain. In one sense, though, whether set before or...Tags: Values, United Kingdom, Ethics, Whitehall, Religion and Belief
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Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird
CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Criminals, Dance, Religion and Belief, Chile
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‘Pacific Rim’ trailer offers robot vs. kaiju action on a massive scale
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSpectacle, you say? The new trailer for Guillermo del Toro's “Pacific Rim” delivers it on a massive scale, with out-of-this […]... -
Woody Guthrie's great American voice gets a new home in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. - The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago. On the screen a typewritten love letter appears and the words scroll down and you can imagine the woman...Tags: George Kaiser, Music Industry, Music, Music Theater, Fine Artists
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John Caird brings blockbuster cred to L.A. Opera's 'Tosca'
John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Industry, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Music, Les Miserables (movie)
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Sting added to Printer's Row Lit Fest
Having introduced the world to such colorful characters as a prostitute named Roxanne and a stalker who monitors “Every Breath You Take,” Sting will help launch a new Chicago-based storytelling initiative when he appears at the Chicago...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, United Nations, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment
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Author Christopher Buckley To Speak At Hotchkiss
The Hartford CourantChristopher Buckley, the Forbes editor, journalist and author whose books tackle political and cultural sacred cows with a satirical twist, will give a free talk Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road., Lakeville. Son...Tags: Education, Depression, Politics, Weight, Human Interest
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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Colleges and Universities, Grateful Dead (music group), Religion and Belief, University of Oxford
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A Carlos Fuentes boom on the anniversary of his death
The Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is the subject of a small, literary boom on the anniversary of his death. Fuentes died one year ago, May 15, 2012, at the age of 83. This week his North American publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, released more...
Tags: Authors, Mexico, Mexico City, Book, Arts and Culture
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Leonardo DiCaprio of 'Gatsby' tells Cannes he has a new point of view on the American tale
Associated PressCANNES, France (AP) — Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it. The star of Baz Luhrmann's kaleidoscopic screen adaptation, said reading F. Scott...Tags: French Literature, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Movies, Long Island, Film Festivals
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Alexis Rankin Popik's New Book, "Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate," Takes Inspiration From California and Connecticut
Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate By Alexis Rankin Popik/ Aucoot Press When Alexis Popik and her husband, William, moved from California to Connecticut 15 years ago, they were, she laughingly says, "the first members of either family to leave home." By...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Behavioral Conditions, Hartford Seminary, Simsbury, Mania
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Northwestern University invests in early-stage cancer clinical trials
Northwestern University is investing $10 million in an initiative that aims to enroll more patients with advanced and hard-to-treat cancers in early-stage clinical trials. The university, which plans to announce the new institute this week, said it...
Tags: Litigation, Colleges and Universities, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses, Renal cell carcinoma
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