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Allen keeps learning from the masters
Chicago Tribune criticWoody Allen has rarely worn his influences lightly; they're more like overcoats he's trying to shake off. A generation ago "Interiors" was the Bergman-est Ingmar Bergman film (and not a very interesting one) not made by Bergman. "Stardust Memories" looked...Tags: Movies, Sydney Pollack, Javier Bardem, Venice, Martin Landau
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'Sex and the City:' Better than ever
Tribune reporterAt the New York City premiere of "Sex and the City," cast member Willie Garson (Stanford Blatch) called the highly anticipated movie "critic-proof." If the crowds at early screenings are any predictor of box office performance, he's right. Happily, he...Tags: Movies, Candace Bushnell, Kim Cattrall, Television, Los Angeles
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Fat kids, Time's national shame
Today's question: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the growth of childhood obesity has leveled off, yet Time magazine just devoted a special issue to tubby tots. Is this a growing problem or just a moral panic? Kerry Howley and Kay...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, George Mason, People, Children, Health Organizations
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NYC man says he was conned into selling Arbus photos cheap
NEW YORK (AP) _ A collector of African-American art was duped into selling a cache of previously unknown Diane Arbus photographs for a fraction of their value, and the buyer stands to reap hundreds of thousands of dollars from the deception at an...Tags: Court Administration, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), New York Times, Justice System, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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'The James Brown Reader,' edited by Nelson George and Alan Leeds
The James Brown Reader
50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
Edited by Nelson George and Alan Leeds
Plume: 318 pp., $17 paper
WHAT would the late James Brown make of Barack Obama? Most definitely, Brown would say he was down with the message...Tags: Johnny Carson, Al Sharpton, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, People
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'Hubert's Freaks' by Gregory Gibson
Hubert's Freaks
The Rare-Book Dealer, The Times Square Talker,
and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus
Gregory Gibson
Harcourt: 274 pp., $24
If you believe Gregory Gibson, which for the moment I'm happy to do, it all began with freak shows. American pop...Tags: New Jersey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Television, Susan Sontag, Folk Music
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Robert Downey Jr. is ready to play the hero in 'Iron Man'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTO become a mega-movie star these days, a man must don the tights. With a few notable exceptions like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had the good fortune to be in the highest-grossing movie of all time (that would be "Titanic"), almost every $20-million man has...Tags: Tobey Maguire, Movies, Animal Science, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio
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$30,000 for nude Bundchen photo?
A black-and-white photograph of a nude Gisele Bundchen that was taken by famed photographer Irving Penn is expected to fetch $30,000 at an April 10 auction at Christie's in New York. The rarely seen portrait of a bronzed Bundchen with flowing hair is part...Tags: Irving Penn, Photography, Gisele Bundchen , Tom Brady, Auction Service
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Unsettling landscape
TRIBUNE REPORTERBeneath the Roses Photos by Gregory Crewdson, essay by Russell Banks Abrams, 140 pages, $60 Norman Rockwell brought us a singular vision of small-town America, as did Edward Hopper. Now photographer Gregory Crewdson has created a new, uniquely...Tags: Movies, Photography, Walker Evans, Norman Rockwell, Edward Hopper
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Elton John Says Seized Photo Is Widely Published
Bloomberg NewsElton John said a photograph of two girls by Nan Goldin has been published around the world "without any objections of which we are aware" and auctioned twice by Sotheby's. The photo, "Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing," was seized by Northumbria police...Tags: Irving Penn, Elton John, Public Holidays, Christie's International Plc, Auction Service
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A Diane Arbus portrait loses its focus
Newsday Staff WriterEarly into Steven Schainberg's fantasia on the genesis of Diane Arbus' photography, a restless Arbus informs her husband, Allan, that she is going to take an evening walk. His response? "Be careful." He's too engrossed in his own work as a commercial...Tags: Movies, Theater, Wrestling, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr.
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'Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus'
Creativity is one of life's true mysteries, but that hasn't stopped people from attempting to analyze and trivialize the source of the artistic impulse. Yet the mystery always triumphs, as it does in the simplistic but strangely poetic "Fur: An...Tags: Movies, Photography, Jean Cocteau, Robert Downey Jr., Nicole Kidman
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