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'A Freewheelin' Life' by Suze Rotolo
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 15, 2008 They were cherub-cheeked kids when each landed in Greenwich Village in early 1961, drawn like moths to the flames of art, music, theater and ideas that burned so brightly in every cranny of the Big Apple's most bohemian quarter. She was 17....Tags: Bob Dylan, Book, New York Times, Arthur Rimbaud, Woody Guthrie
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Fall Arts: New York Theater calendar
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A Chorus Line, opening Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. All together now: "five, six, seven, eight!" The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning monument to Broadway gypsy dancers is back where its fans believe it has always belonged....Tags: Bob Dylan, Bodies of Water, Brooklyn (King's, New York), Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Festive Event
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Getting a flavor for the language
Times Staff WriterTHE pubs here are as much a literary institution as a social one. Even if you don't drink, it's a place to immerse yourself in the speech from which so much that is distinctive about the city's literary life springs. Like all Irish restaurants and bars,...Tags: Theater, Trinity College, Connecticut
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Dublin, beyond the Blooms
Times Staff WriterTHE notion of a holiday built around literature is a contradiction, which makes Dublin the right destination for those inclined toward the literary life. Travel, after all, is about going and doing. The consolations of reading are solitary; even the...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Theater, Books and Magazines, Seamus Heaney, Bram Stoker
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Historic hotels in New York City
These hotels are intimately connected to the city's life and times, whether they're housed in an Art Deco skyscraper or an 1830s brownstone. They've played host to visiting royalty and political types, rock stars and movie moguls, literary lions and...Tags: O. Henry, Gramercy, Astoria, Hotels and Accommodations, Algonquin
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'Gagarin Way' delivers a global message
Tribune theater criticIf you couldn't wrap your head around everything the anti-World Trade Organization protesters were actually protesting in Seattle a few years ago, get a load of Eddie and Gary, stars of the hottest Scottish grunge export since "Trainspotting." The export...Tags: Kidnapping, Quentin Tarantino, Theater, Defense, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Historic hotels in NYC
The hotels listed below are intimately connected with the city's life and times, whether they're housed in an art deco skyscraper or an 1830s brownstone. They've played host to visiting royalty and political types, rock stars and movie moguls, literary...Tags: O. Henry, Gramercy, Dundee, Algonquin, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Movie review, 'A Guy Thing'
"A Guy Thing" is a sometimes funny, often strained comedy about everything going wrong with a looming Seattle wedding, centered around groom-to-be Paul (Jason Lee). The nightmares begin when Paul wakes up the morning after a wild bachelor party, sleeping...Tags: Jason Lee, Selma Blair, Movies, Rock Hudson, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated
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Movie review, 'Borstal Boy'
Brendan Behan, the Irish playwright/novelist who drank himself to death at 41, was once a borstal boy himself - unwilling resident of a British reformatory - and "Borstal Boy" is supposedly an account of his time there. But it's really a crock: a coming-...Tags: Government, John Cleese, Tony Richardson, Executive Branch, Michael York
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Getting down to business
SunSpot StaffThurs., Nov. 8 Dear friends, The movies are great; wish the merchandise was more interesting. After more general strangeness at the Bates Motel, we stopped by the RIFF box office at the Movies at Midway to pick up tonight's tickets. The line was a bit...Tags: Beach Vacations, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Theater, Festive Event, Movies
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