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    Jun 16, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Bloomsday all over

    Jacket Copy
    James Joyce's landmark novel "Ulysses" follows the peregrinations of Leopold Bloom around Dublin, Ireland, during a single day. That day, as fans of Joyce know, is June 16, and it's become known as Bloomsday in celebrations around the world. Here......
    2. Jul 31, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. L.A. as filtered by love in '(500) Days of Summer'

    "(500) Days of Summer" is a movie about obsessions -- gentle, often charming and non-stalkerish obsessions, for the most part, but obsessions all the same. Chief among them -- after romantic love, the subject that stands always at the heart of the story, its existence always up for impassioned, practically theological debate -- is architecture.
    Architecture Critic
    "(500) Days of Summer" is a movie about obsessions -- gentle, often charming and non-stalkerish obsessions, for the most part, but obsessions all the same. Chief among them -- after romantic love, the subject that stands always at the heart of the story,...

    Tags: Death, In Search of a Midnight Kiss (movie), Away We Go (movie), Emo (genre), Zooey Deschanel

    3. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

    <article_body> So long as they keep funding public television and radio, I'm good. I grew up learning lots from "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" -- everything from the alphabet and numbers to sharing and a sense of humor, and I still listen to NPR daily. Ira Glass? "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!"? Great good times. &#220;ber-important. I can't imagine our world without them.</article_body>
    So long as they keep funding public television and radio, I'm good. I grew up learning lots from "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" -- everything from the alphabet and numbers to sharing and a sense of humor, and I still listen to NPR daily. Ira...

    Tags: Sesame Street (tv program), NPR, Neil Patrick Harris

    4. Apr 16, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  4. Showtime Renews 'Tudors,' 'Life'

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    Showtime has picked up second seasons of "The Tudors" and "This American Life," while also ordering a new comedy from Tracey Ullman. "The Tudors" premiered on April 1 and generated solid ratings both on the premium cable network and in a variety of on-...

    Tags: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tracey Ullman, Television, Entertainment, Showtime (tv network)

    5. May 30, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. The king of Showtime

    BOB GREENBLATT, the president of entertainment for Showtime Networks, has his eyes on the prizes. The shiny Emmy statuettes are a sure way to stand out in a crowded and ever-expanding entertainment universe.
    BOB GREENBLATT, the president of entertainment for Showtime Networks, has his eyes on the prizes. The shiny Emmy statuettes are a sure way to stand out in a crowded and ever-expanding entertainment universe. On the strength of such original offbeat and...

    Tags: Anne Boleyn, The Tudors (tv program), HBO (tv network), Lost (tv program), Entertainment

    6. Sep 14, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  6. 'The Brave One'

    "The Brave One," the second vigilante vengeance thriller of the fall, doesn't just skate by on another classy turn by Jodie Foster. She makes this latest Spawn of "Death Wish" downright disturbing as she explores the thrilling and then chilling and finally unfulfilling journey her character makes when she takes the law into her own hands.
    Zap2It.com
    "The Brave One," the second vigilante vengeance thriller of the fall, doesn't just skate by on another classy turn by Jodie Foster. She makes this latest Spawn of "Death Wish" downright disturbing as she explores the thrilling and then chilling and...

    Tags: Mary Steenburgen, Death, Defense, Firearms, Crimes

    7. Apr 26, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'The Dangerous World of Butterflies,' 'Mona Lisa's Pajamas,' 'Pieces for the Left Hand'

    The Dangerous World of Butterflies The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists Peter Laufer Lyons Press: 272 pp., $24.95 Peter Laufer was a little bit tired of writing about wars and American prisoners held against their...

    Tags: Crimes, Los Angeles, Nazi Party, Journalism, The New York Times

    8. Mar 22, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'This American Life' Goes Visual

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    By its nature, television does not lend itself to subtlety or delicate expression. It's not like a movie, where you've paid your money and sit in a dark room with nothing to focus on but the huge lighted screen in front of you. Television competes with...

    Tags: Mormonism, Sundance Film Festival, Comedy (genre), Utah, Radio Industry

    9. Jun 8, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. An iconoclast with a sense of humor

    Everyone has a favorite David Sedaris piece. Mine, I don't mind saying, is the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day," in the collection of the same name. Just like everyone else who claims to love Sedaris (we were unable to procure a single disgruntled reader for this piece), my reasons are personal. Something about trying to learn French, which, if you don't mind, I'd rather not talk about just now.
    Everyone has a favorite David Sedaris piece. Mine, I don't mind saying, is the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day," in the collection of the same name. Just like everyone else who claims to love Sedaris (we were unable to procure a single disgruntled reader...

    Tags: Children, Alcoholic Beverages, Book, Ice Cream, New York Observer

    10. Dec 8, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 'Unaccompanied Minors'

    A layover disguised as a film, "Unaccompanied Minors" tells a John Hughes-ian tale of six kids stranded at an airport over the holidays. It comes from a story (a sharp nine-minute number called "Babysitting," by Susan Burton) originally broadcast on the Ira Glass-hosted radio series "This American Life." With that pedigree you think: Promising. Unconventional. Yet the screenplay apparently went through some sort of airport security scanner that sucked out all the quirks.
    Chicago Tribune
    A layover disguised as a film, "Unaccompanied Minors" tells a John Hughes-ian tale of six kids stranded at an airport over the holidays. It comes from a story (a sharp nine-minute number called "Babysitting," by Susan Burton) originally broadcast on the...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Dyllan Christopher, Comedy (genre), Brett Kelly, John Hughes

    11. Jul 23, 2008 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  11. Glass: Limbaugh an amazing performer

    The Swamp
    by Aamer Madhani This Sunday's New York Times Magazine has an interesting story about a.m. radio's $400 million man. In the expansive profile, Zev Chafet soft pedals around conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's struggle to overcome a painkiller...

    Tags: Entertainment, Radio, New York, The New York Times

    12. Oct 24, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. This blowhard bit is working out great

    There are really two John Hodgmans. One is well known to viewers of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as the "resident expert" who offers preposterously inaccurate assessments of such things as Alan Greenspan's retirement and Iran's atomic aspirations. He's even more widely familiar to those who have seen Apple Computer's recent spate of ads, in which he appears as the comically fusty PC, stealing the show from actor Justin Long's slacker-cool Mac.
    Special to The Times
    There are really two John Hodgmans. One is well known to viewers of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as the "resident expert" who offers preposterously inaccurate assessments of such things as Alan Greenspan's retirement and Iran's atomic aspirations....

    Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Apple Inc., Celebrities, Ivy League, Syfy (tv network)

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