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Your 2013 Sundance reading list
The Sundance Film Festival is well under way, giving us a preview of the independent features that may soon be coming to screens near us. The mix is interesting and sexy this year, and includes a good share of auteurs who've both written and directed...
Tags: Film Festivals, Dean Stockwell, Jean-Marc Barr, Movies, Ben Foster
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Two local actors to have films premiere at Sundance
TV WatchersAllen grad Amanda Seyfried and Emmaus grad Dean DeHaan will both see recent films have their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah. Amanda's "Lovelace" and Dean's "Kill Your Darlings" are among the 115 films...... -
Kristen Stewart sorry for making people 'so angry,' she says
Kristen Stewart is still sorry, folks. In a sweeping, general, you-still-don't-own-me sort of way. "I apologize to everyone for making them so angry," the actress told Newsweek, presumably referring to her "indiscretion" with married director Rupert...
Tags: Google Inc., Social Media, Robert Pattinson, Snow White and the Huntsman (movie), Twilight (movie)
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Film review: 'On the Road' to a Razzie
It's long been said that Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is unfilmable. Sadly, there is little in Walter Salles' adaptation to counter that notion. Salles has displayed his filmmaking chops in (among others) “Central Station” and “...
Tags: Viggo Mortensen, Peter Weller, Movies, On the Road (movie), Walter Salles
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'On the Road' toward mortality: A critic ponders Jack Kerouac
Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road." "We know time," the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an invocation and a prayer. That's important for a couple of reasons: It...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Movies, On the Road (movie), Walter Salles, Arts and Culture
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31st Key West Literary Seminar set for January
Leading contemporary writers will offer insights into the lives and work of literary icons including Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman during the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar. Two...
Tags: Phyllis Rose, Arts, Key West, Emily Dickinson, Human Interest
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Decision on Los Angeles' first poet laureate nears
Dana Gioia spent many years doing battle in that viper's nest of bureaucrats and elected officials called Washington D.C. This fall the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and L.A. native found himself back home. In a series of...
Tags: Lobbying, Emily Dickinson, Charles Bukowski, World War II (1939-1945), Poetry
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Despite controversy, 'Zero Dark Thirty' soars in limited release
The backlash in Washington over "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't reach the box office, as Kathryn Bigelow's CIA thriller got off to an excellent start in limited release. Playing in five theaters, the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden grossed $410,000...
Tags: Amour (movie), Naomi Watts, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Movies, John McCain
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Great books they love to hate
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may likely make a New Year’s resolution related to books. You might announce that you will read a great book that’s defeated you before. “I will read ‘Ulysses’ this year,&...
Tags: Jane Austen, Authors
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First editions: A rare present
Never mind the Morlocks. For a book lover, the most chilling scene in the 1960 screen adaptation of "The Time Machine" is the one in which the Time Traveler is taken to the decrepit library of the Eloi race. "I can learn all I want about you from books,"...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Holidays, Fiction, Union Pacific Corporation, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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'Hobbit' to again rule box office; 'Zero Dark Thirty' has big start
On Wednesday, three Senate leaders condemned Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" for its "grossly inaccurate" portrayal of the events leading to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. But the controversy only seemed to make the well-reviewed picture even more...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Twilight (movie), On the Road (movie), Kristen Stewart, Christmas
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The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear
From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles. Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the...
Tags: Film Festivals, Skype, Kale, Viggo Mortensen, Movies
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