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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 17, 1959
The Daily MirrorForgotten Men As you probably read, film director, Joseph Von Sternberg has sued Fox for $1 million, charging the 1959 version of "The Blue Angel" with May Britt and Curt Jurgens was made without his consent and was inferior to his 1929 version with... -
The idiosyncratic legacy of Harry Smith
Jacket CopyAlthough his "Anthology of American Folk Music," released by Folkways in 1952, became essential to America's folk music movement of the 1960s, Harry Smith remained on the fringes of culture. Or, rather, on the avant-garde, as Rani Singh and Andrew...... -
Brand X Files: Goat smashes into strip club. Fox readies U.S. version of 'Torchwood' and how David Letterman really feels about Jay Leno
Brand XFox readying U.S. version of BBC sci-fi hit "Torchwood" (Hollywood Reporter) Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin voted L.A.'s best Twitterer (LA Weekly) New film about Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" poem with James Franco and "Madman" Jon Hamm (Guardian) And if you want... -
Seeking Establishment recognition of Beat hangout's importance
From 1958 to 1966, the Venice West Cafe served as a gathering place for disciples of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the other pioneers of the Beat Generation who planted the seeds of L.A.'s counterculture movement.
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the...Tags: Venice, Arts and Culture, Jim Morrison, Monuments and Heritage Sites, South Dakota
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'The Harvard Psychedelic Club' by Don Lattin
The Patience Stone
Atiq Rahimi
Translated from the French by Polly McLean
Other Press: 160 pp., $16.95
Books have many incarnations. Some come back as plays or movies. If they have questionable karma, they come back as paperback remainders or Saturday...Tags: Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Television Industry
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Andrei Voznesensky dies at 77; daring and popular Russian poet
Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky, who rose to prominence during the thaw that followed Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death, died in Moscow on Tuesday. He was 77. Voznesensky had been reclusive over the last few years, and friends said he was suffering...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Politics, Marilyn Monroe, Nobel Prize Awards, Communist Party of China
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A few casting suggestions in advance of the upcoming Jerry Garcia biopic
Pop & HissHopefully, it will be more "American Beauty," than "Hell in a Bucket" but according to an article in today's Variety, a biopic on Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia appears to be heading down the golden road to unlimited devotion. After...... -
Tuli Kupferberg dies at 86; founding member of the underground band the Fugs
Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of the underground left-wing 1960s band the Fugs as well as a poet, political cartoonist and lifelong peace activist, died Monday in New York. He was 86.
Kupferberg's health had been declining since he suffered two...Tags: Music, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, NPR, Lou Reed
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Jack and Allen, in their own words
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
The Letters
Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
Viking: 528 pp., $35
"Howl" (1956) and "On the Road" (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Ken Kesey, Stanford University, Education, Jack Kerouac
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20 classic works of gay literature
Jacket CopyToday U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. Both sides had said...... -
Paperback Writers: What made Dylan roar?
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York on Nov. 9, 1953, at age 39. Already a celebrity, Thomas was turned into a legend.
Did he die as a result of 18 double whiskies drunk neat in the White Horse Tavern?
Or was the cause half a grain of morphine...Tags: John Donne, Dylan Thomas, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, John Lennon
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Astral Weeks: Welcome to weird America
"My country is my family," writes Ricky Rice as he concludes his apologia pro vita sua -- a.k.a Victor LaValle's massive, heroically strange new novel, "Big Machine" (Spiegel & Grau: 378 pp., $25). "I like America."
There's something both dissonant and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Oakland (Orange, Florida), Cults and Sects, Stephen King, Heavy Engineering
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