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Flamboyant characters step out of the hat
A trio of monkeys, one with a pierced lip, kicking up a storm. Big-voiced Sour Kangaroo testing her moves. Styrofoam-headgear-toting Whos gallivanting with instruments made from PVC pipe, toilet plungers and badminton birdies. It's high school, so...
Tags: Allergies, Education, Students, Music Theater, Schools
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City Lights: Mastering the performance of poetry
Last week, I judged a competition where entrants had to have a grabbing lead, a dynamic storytelling style and a wealth of information condensed into a finite number of words. I'm talking, of course, about Poetry Out Loud. For the second straight year,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Education, Students, Judges, Schools
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City Lights: The Oscar pool is on
Everyone has at least one skill that doesn't have a practical use. Mine is the ability to name every movie ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. I absorbed that knowledge from years of reading critical studies of the Oscars, to the point...Tags: Hugo (movie), The Departed (movie), The Tree of Life (movie), Artists, The Help (movie)
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On Theater: Don't 'Doubt' Golden West's production
"Doubt," according to Tom Amen, who is directing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play opening at Golden West College on Feb. 25, is "a beautifully balanced drama that draws its power not from its clarity, but from its ambiguity." John Patrick Shanley, whose...Tags: Human Interest, Education, Colleges and Universities, Tony Awards, Doubt (movie)
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Hoping for a profitable new life for 'Smokey Joe' and Julia
Anyone in show business — anyone with a clue, anyway — who found their way to No Exit Cafe in Rogers Park last fall could not have helped but notice an opportunity to make some money. Theo Ubique, which has the new production of Andrew Lloyd...
Tags: Mike Stoller, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Jerry Leiber, Music Theater, Sparrow (music group)
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Hope Springs' on Starz
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor (Matt...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Burke, Tommy Lee Jones, U.S. Navy, Tom Davis
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'Mr. Selfridge': The man who invented retail therapy
Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be...
Tags: Ike Barinholtz, Arts and Culture, Daniel Burnham, Lana Wachowski, Seth Rogen
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Oscar predictions 2013: We call the four acting races
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Earlier he looked at the short films, sound categories, visual crafts races,...
Tags: Denzel Washington, Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained (movie)
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On Demand/DVD New Releases March 25-31
Channel Guide MagazineOn Demand/DVD New Releases March 25-31: Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in the award-winning Lincoln is outstanding, but Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones shouldn’t be overlooked in their roles. This week also brings Killing The Softly with Brad... -
Looking for opera inspiration
Like every other form of art, operas can be inspired by just about anything — historical events, myths, epic poems, plays, even movies. Often, such operas go on to eclipse their inspiration. Puccini's "Tosca," derived from a play by Victorien...Tags: Anglicanism, Arts and Culture, Tony Awards, Music, Edgar Allan Poe
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: Seth MacFarlane, Tommy Lee Jones, Preston Sturges, Arts and Culture, Jack Palance
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Oscars 2013: Here's what to look for on Oscar night [video chat]
With the 85th Academy Awards set for Sunday night, the question on many's minds is whether "Argo," Ben Affleck's drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis, will cap off its awards season run with a best picture win. But there are many other things to...
Tags: Music Industry, Seth MacFarlane, Ben Affleck, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Norah Jones
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