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'If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends': Cabaret salutes the late Belle Barth
Tribune criticThe late Belle Barth, Queen of the Borscht Belt and its Floridian outpost, released a whole series of what were euphemistically known as "adult party albums" in the early 1960s. They were, in essence, recorded collections of dirty jokes, as told by a...Tags: Rogers Park, Music, Popular Music
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Illuminated poetry's possibilities
New York Times News ServiceNew York Times News Service Donald Finkel, an American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions that helped illuminate the function of poetry itself, died on Nov. 15 at his home in St. Louis. He was 79. The cause was complications of...Tags: University of Chicago, Albert Camus, Columbia University, Diseases, Poetry
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Movie Review: Comedy 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People' loses out with offensive protagonist
VarietyHow to lose friends and alienate audiences is the lesson taught by this cleverly titled but noxious British comedy about a Limey scribe trying to carve a notch for himself in the glam world of high-end New York publishing. Despite being based on the...Tags: New York, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Gillian Armstrong, Movies
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Skeletons tumble out of the closet in 'Razorback' at Theatre Theater
A crime thriller heavily laced with violence and cruelty, John Pollono's "Razorback" is a trendy new black comedy for a post-"Sopranos" mind-set. Fine performances in a handsomely staged premiere production from Rogue Machine show much promise in a script...Tags: Theater, Neil LaBute, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Quentin Tarantino, Literature
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'Nobody, nothing was sacred'
Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport. No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the stage of the Cloister Inn nightclub and said, "I've been thinking a lot about...Tags: Philosophy, Folk Music, Midway Airport, Ernie Kovacs, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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George Carlin mourned by fellow comedians
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFriends and colleagues today mourned George Carlin, the acerbic, Grammy-winning comedian whose career spanned more than 50 years. Carlin, 71, died of heart failure after being taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday evening. The...Tags: Theater, Belief and Faith, Radio Industry, Mark Twain, Matt Damon
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George Carlin mourned as counterculture hero
Associated Press WriterSeven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without. George Carlin, who died of heart failure Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable routines, but a legal legacy: His most celebrated...Tags: Belief and Faith, Radio Industry, Grammy Awards, Mark Twain, Awards and Prizes
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George Carlin, expert troublemaker
Times Television CriticIt was always comforting to know that George Carlin was out there making trouble. Like Richard Pryor, he straddled the great cultural divide that was the 1960s, coming in as a lamb and going out as a lion. I remember him first as another of that age's...Tags: Richard Pryor, Radio Industry, Mark Twain, Diseases, Mental Illness
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Mailer in Chicago
Driving north on Lake Shore Drive for my granddaughter's second birthday Nov. 10, I heard on the radio of Norman Mailer's death in New York City and remembered driving south on the drive to the University of Chicago with him the day we met 50 years ago...Tags: Vehicles, Saul Bellow, Connecticut, University of Chicago, Northwestern University
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Largo gets new lease on life at the old Coronet
Special to The TimesJON BRION'S last night at Largo was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan...Tags: Theater, Bertolt Brecht, Folk Music, Pete Seeger, Angela Lansbury
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R. Kelly's child pornography trial begins
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe paparazzi and TV news crews have spent weeks scouting the Cook County Criminal Court for the perfect spot to shoot arrivals, departures and stand-ups. The judge presiding over the case sought advice from a fellow jurist in Santa Barbara County on...Tags: Newspapers, Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Kelly, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Grammy Awards
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John Densmore's jazz education
Special to The TimesTHE GREAT jazz drummer Elvin Jones carried on a constant musical conversation with John Coltrane. It inspired me to have that kind of dialogue with Jim Morrison. Not that I was in Elvin's league, but his courage gave me the "huevos" to stop the steady...Tags: Theater, Chico Hamilton, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Dizzy Gillespie, Music
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