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All styles, all of them great
Miguel Zenon and Laurent Coq: "Rayuela" (Sunnyside Records). Puerto Rican saxophonist Zenon and French pianist Coq drew inspiration for "Rayuela" from Argentine writer Julio Cortazar's book of the same name, but this sublimely expressive recording...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Savoy (music group), Music, Joe Henderson
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'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Adam Shankman, The King's Speech (movie), Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Theater
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Retire? Not 'Amour's' two eightysomething stars
PARIS — Up four old, crooked flights of stairs in her apartment building with no elevator, Emmanuelle Riva sits wrapped in a thick, woven, poncho-like sweater. Warm light streams through colorful windowpanes into her narrow living room, where Riva...Tags: Film Festivals, Michael Haneke, Drama (genre), France, The White Ribbon (movie)
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Hannah Gamble finds poetry in brevity
For Hannah Gamble, poetry is a sprint. A tweet. A quick jab of energy, emotion and enthusiasm that hits a reader squarely in the gut. And that's the way she likes it. "I love getting to be obsessive and micro about things, and poetry lets (me) do...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Chicago Tribune, Radiohead (music group), Poetry, Philosophy
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Les Miserables a masterpiece
Movies can make you do things. Paranormal Activity didn’t allow my body to sleep for several nights, Rudy forces my eyes to tear each time I watch it, and Gangs of New York released adrenaline into my blood stream. The rest of the...
Tags: Sacha Baron Cohen, Harry Potter (fictional character), Arts and Culture, France, Entertainment
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Long live the resolution
On June 5, 1832, French writer Victor Hugo was sitting in a park crafting another masterpiece. Startled by the sounds of exploding cannons and screaming men, he dropped his pen and, instead of running for the safety of home, dashed toward the sound of the...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Broadway Theater, Les Miserables (musical), Victor Hugo
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Baltimore author Margaret Meacham publishes two books in a month
When author Margaret Meacham was a little girl, she let her imagination soar while perched high in the branches of a buckeye tree in her family's Pittsburgh backyard. Now, half a century after those leafy daydreams, the 60-year-old Meacham is a popular...
Tags: Ghosts (supernatural entities), Authors, Arts and Culture, Mystery (genre), Literature
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Despite 'discomfort' with capitalism, France must be doing something right
Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column on French economic policy is unfairly critical of a great nation that perhaps has contributed more to the world's culture — in literature, music, philosophy and art — than any other country on earth...Tags: Arts and Culture, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., France, Literature
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Book Review: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The author, Louise Penny, is one of the most decorated mystery writers alive today. She is the only author to have won four Agatha Awards for Best Novel, and she’s not done. Ms. Penny is a Canadian who lives in a small village south of Montreal....Tags: Libraries, Authors, Arts and Culture, Book, Literature
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Carnett: We dream of 'Les Miz'
I went on a date the other evening with my eldest and youngest daughters. I escorted the two thirtysomethings –- I'm not so dumb as to divulge their actual ages — to see director Tom Hooper's dazzling new film, "Les Miserables." Talk about...
Tags: Theater, France, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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A reflection on literary retirements
In light of Philip Roth's recent announcement of his "retirement" from writing, a scene from the 1977 movie "Julia" comes to mind. It's a delicious cinematic moment, involving as it does the deft puncturing of pomposity — always satisfying to...
Tags: Tuberculosis, Authors, Jason Robards, Diseases and Illnesses, Book
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The buzz in Paris: What books do international writers recommend?
Few people read more literature that’s written outside their own borders than the French. And if you want to get a really good sense about what’s out there in the vast multilingual world of books, there’s no better place to look than a...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Authors, The Holocaust (1934-1945), European Union, Junot Diaz
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