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Turning the Lens on Langdon (PHOTOS)
Question: What do Angelina Jolie, Ryan Seacrest, Frank Sinatra, Serena Williams and I have in common? Answer: We have all been photographed by Harry Langdon, the Hollywood celebrity photographer. It's...
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Everyone has untapped potential in some creative field. Yet some individuals -- Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs -- have far more of it than others. Apart from genes, there are...
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Since I hadn't seen a Two Gentlemen of Verona production or reread the William Shakespeare play in awhile, I was totally caught off guard by the many passionate discourses of love with which the young,...
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The Struggle to Reach Out and Tell the Climate Story
Photo Credit: Lightspring / Shutterstock.com "Nope, no. No. Nuh-uh. These aren't good." I'm sitting next to one of my instructors at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of...
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Theater: 'Almost Home' Never Arrives; 'Rococo Rouge' Never Goes There
ALMOST HOME * 1/2 out of **** ROCOCO ROUGE ** out of **** ALMOST HOME * 1/2 out of **** ACORN THEATRE ON THEATRE ROW War is always with us, so a play about war -- any war -- will always be relevant,...
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Filmmaker Marcell Gerő on "Cain's Children" and the Consequence of Underage...
When the prestigious 62nd San Sebastián Film Festival announces the winners in its New Directors category on Sept. 23, Hungarian newcomer Marcell Gerő may be a strong contender for first prize with his...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: "Uncle Vanya" Misfires in More Ways Than One
During the intermission after the first uneven two acts of the Pearl Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya revival, I remarked to my astonished but extremely tolerant friend that Anton Chekhov's writing shines...
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Daddy Issues
A long time ago (in what seems like it must have been a galaxy far, far, away), it was possible for someone to be coy about "daddy issues." In the following clip, Mary Martin performs "My Heart Belongs...
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Piecing Together a U.S. Marine's WWII History
My uncle, Walter Rybicki, was a US Marine during World War II who died on 6 Feb 1944. How do I find out the details of how and where he died? Where can I obtain the records? - Norm ________________...
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Travel Photography in Morocco: How to Capture a Sense of Light, Place -- And...
In Morocco, I met the woman I eventually married. Sometimes I blame it on the light. No, that's not correct. Sometimes I credit the light for having shown -- er, shone -- her to me right. We were part...
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At The Bus Stop With Travis Huggett
All Images Copyright Travis Huggett When I first saw Travis Huggett's work I sensed something iconic, something classic, but I could not put my finger on exactly what it was about his photographs that...
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Healed by Art in London
I grew up in a city of great museums, New York, and felt intimately close to many of them from a very early age because of countless school visits and trips with my parents. But it was only on a recent...
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View ArticleLeonard Cohen at 80
Anybody familiar with Leonard Cohen knows the haunting often depressing beauty of his lyrics. In his early years performing, Mr. Cohen's unrelenting grimness became something of a joke. The British...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Merman
One of today's great comediennes is in fact a man. In the tradition of other celebrated gender benders, like Divine, Dame Edna and RuPaul, the man who transforms nightly into Varla Jean Merman--"the...
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Lucie Arnaz: Why Her Addition to the Pippin Cast Stands Out
Photo: Broadway World Let's face it, the first national touring production of 2013's Tony-winning hit Pippin (Best Musical Revival), didn't need all that much to lure in the masses. But now that the...
View ArticlePrepare to be Uncomfortable
Recently a client asked me how to tell the difference between the natural anxiety a person has when they're moving forward into something new and the gut instinct that something is truly wrong for...
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I Contain Multitudes: Maia Mayor
I remember the day she brought it into the room. We were sitting in a circle, and Maia was seated to my right. We started at my left, which means she went last. When it was Maia's turn she looked down....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Neil LaBute's Money Shot Hits the Target
Neil LaBute does it again -- and even farther out. Having often concentrated on the battle between the sexes in his comedies, he now goes literal. No further description here of how he does that,...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Ivo van Hove Undoes "Scenes From a Marriage"
Discounting the rare scare flick, I've only once been tempted to look away from a movie screen--and succumbed to the urge. It was Ingmar Bergman's 1973 Scenes From a Marriage. The psychic pain was too...
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