More than half a century after the blacklist hit Hollywood, shattering many careers and dispersing much filmland talent to unemployment, exile abroad or even jail, a
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Photo by Larry HirshowitzTHERE ARE WORKS FOR THE MUSICAL THEATER THAT begin in theaters, and some that begin in playwrights' laboratories. Others come out of uni
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photo by Christine Haberstock
THE VALLEY HAS ALWAYS MOVED AT ITS own pace. For years, while the Los Angeles restaurant world exploded with innovation —
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“I knew the gods were cruel,” wails a soldier in The Greeks, which opened last month at the Odyssey Theater, “but this is evil, mad!”
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Early on in the Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke, a monk soaked in street-hustler wiliness admonishes the young warrior Ashitaka with the observation that &#
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IN 1970, I SAW BLACK SABBATH, FUNKADELIC, THE Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin and more all on the same bill at an open-air three-day rock f
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PONCE DE LEON HAD HIS FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, Ahab his whale, Columbus his islands of spice. Dr. Leakey spent half of his life looking for a
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Illustration by Mike LeeABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, MY HIGH SCHOOL CIVICS TEACHER (who would later be arrested in front of the class for refusing to pay income tax) invited
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The moment you enter the heavy, padded leather doors, you’re engulfed in a cozy darkness that’s dramatically punctuated by horseshoe-shaped lacquer-red booths, a
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Deputy City Attorney Brooke White began a recently filed court motion with the words “There is something terribly wrong in Oakwood.”
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During a recent visit to Jordan High for the renaming of the school’s student health clinic after benefactor Magic Johnson,
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WEIGHED AGAINST OUR WRETCHEDLY HEEDLESS age, John Sayles' humane populism guarantees that each new film he makes seems more old-fash
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