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A collection of news and information related to Christopher Hitchens published by Tribune Company sources.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
I love $4 gas. It makes me appreciate freedom. I watch as the dollars spin and think, "You, Triceratops, did not get squished by an asteroid in vain. You got squished for a $60 drive to Vegas." So I didn't go to Wednesday's MoveOn.org protests against...Tags: Newspapers, Washington Post Company, Bill Clinton, Gays and Lesbians, California
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A leisurely lunch with "Fandango" author Sandy Hill
Times Staff WriterMark Morris breezes into Sandy Hill's Los Olivos ranch house, necklaces dangling, a shawl draped loosely about his shoulders and dance company directors Nancy Umanoff and Lauren Cherubini in tow. Once dubbed "our Mozart of modern dance" by the...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Mark Morris, Dance, Washington Post Company, Dancing
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Climate change? Once more, 'I don't know'
My partner, Teller, and I are professional skeptics. We do magic tricks in our live show in Las Vegas, and we have a passion for trying to use what we've learned about fooling people to possibly get a little closer to the truth. Our series on Showtime...Tags: Global Change, Language, Al Gore, Ecosystems, Global Warming
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Experiment provides a watertight conclusion
Chicago Tribune reporterKnowing Christopher Hitchens, and even having once spent an hour debating him over the Iraq war, I can attest to his praiseworthy intellectual breadth and fearlessness. It is no surprise that he, a fierce defender of U.S. post-9/11 policies overseas,...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Abusive Behavior, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Newt Gingrich, Chicago Loop
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: Arthur Miller, Terry Jones, Toni Morrison, Bill Clinton, Literature
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'Speed Racer' is stuck in first gear
Sun Movie Critic(C) The Wachowski Brothers, the same overgrown boy wonders who concocted The Matrix, create a psychedelic candy store in Speed Racer, then get caught in it with their eyes popped, their brains blown and their pants down. It's a family film done as a...Tags: Gary Ross, John Goodman, Beverage Industry, Susan Sarandon, Arts
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Izzard has toned down the wardrobe but not much else
Tribune criticHe has ditched the high heels but not the accompanying totter. The show now has an arty little video screen encased in the backdrop, but it still opens with a campy gasp of glam-rock and stage effects. And Eddie Izzard still staggers out, blinking into...Tags: Theater, Eddie Izzard, Los Angeles
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Q & A: blogger and first-time novelist Mark Sarvas
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 5, 2008 Mark Sarvas, who was raised in a Hungarian Jewish family in Queens, N.Y., has become notorious as the acid-fingered blogger at the Elegant Variation, a literary site he launched in 2003. Right out of the gate, he's been a champion of authors...Tags: Fiction, Newspapers, New York, New York Times, Reviews
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'Baby Mama': Tina Fey, Amy Poehler take gal-pal gamble
Tribune NewspapersNEW YORK—The unwritten rule of Hollywood comedies is like that classic admonition given boxers the night before a fight: Women weaken legs. Here the legs are a movie's potential at the box office. Which is why it seems unusual for two females,...Tags: Manhattan, Cinema Industry, Newspapers, New York Times, Second City
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The spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says...Tags: Dylan Thomas, New York Times, William Faulkner, Beverage Industry, Alexander Pope
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