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The learning tree, Chicago style
By Nancy Watkins Flashback 1941 Photographer Gordon Parks in a self-portrait. . "All the things I did were done because of the fear of failure." . Gordon Parks (1912-2006) remembered his time in Chicago mostly as a period of hardship. As a young...Tags: Movies, Employees, Photography, Minnesota, Joe Louis
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Richie Cole resurfaces at Andy's
Tribune criticBack in the early 1990s, the celebrated alto saxophonist Richie Cole faced a variety of personal crises and decided to "cool out," as he put it at the time, in Milwaukee. He quickly found himself in high demand in Chicago jazz clubs, where he rejuvenated...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Music
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New lease on 'Life'
On a summer afternoon in 1950, Life magazine photographer Edward Clark spent some time outdoors with a then-unknown starlet, snapping dozens of pictures of 24-year-old Marilyn Monroe as she walked along a tree-lined path, lounged on a park bench reading a...Tags: Clark Gable, National Institutes of Health, Health Organizations, National Government, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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When misery is the muse
Virginia Woolf is often depicted as a dreamy, effete snob, agonizing all day over a single adjective while sipping tea—but her tough-minded view of art would make her right at home with the shot-and-a-beer crowd. To create art, she knew, you need...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Movies, Great Depression, William Faulkner, Photography
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News from around the world
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterInauguration: Tickets and hotels hard to come by WASHINGTON – Tickets to balls and other events related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration will be hard to come by, but you can always join the crowds along the parade route, and Washington tourism...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Mining, Ken Griffey Jr., Suzuki, Ichiro Suzuki
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More art highlights
steve.parks@newsday.comSEPT. 7. Infrastructures: Photographs by Bryan Whitney. Photographic images of communication towers emphasizing the complexity and mystery of some of the most distinctive structures in the contemporary landscape. (Reception Sept. 21.) Anthony Giordano...Tags: Dowling College, Annie Leibovitz, Minority Groups, Irving Penn, Arts
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Living with history in words and images
Staff PhotographerHappy Snaps That's how Bill Eppridge signed my starting-to-get-tattered copy of his new book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties. It is a tad ironic, the book ending with such a sad note - the death of Robert F. Kennedy at the hands of an...Tags: Photography, Robert F. Kennedy, Ceremonies, Society
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Neil Leifer knows all the angles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2008 NEW YORK -- For a guy who's a regular at Elaine's and has a standing reservation at Rao's and his own gallery in Vegas and a new book out selling for $400, and now a short doc on Oscar's short list, Neil Leifer still acts like he has...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Movies, LeRoy Neiman, Major League Baseball, Football
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Visual art calendar
South Florida Sun-SentinelOCTOBER To Oct. 12 -- Jack King. Mixed media sculptures. Portraits of the Golden Age of Jazz. Photographs by William P. Gottlieb. Eissey. To Oct. 14 -- Alterego. Artwork by the most recent crop of Artists-in-Residence: Trisha Brookbank, Monica Hernandez,...Tags: Movies, Keith Haring, Minority Groups, Hobbies, Engineering
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ART
ariella.budick@newsday.comCRITIC'S PICKS Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Through Sept. 16 at the Whitney Museum of Art, Manhattan). The art of psychedelia was about eye-popping colors, free-form ooze, obsessive fantasies, altered consciousness and the broadening of...Tags: Movies, Jasper Johns, Hobbies, Adolph Gottlieb, Long Island University
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Academy Awards blow by blow
Susan King, Times Staff WriterMartin Scorsese's gangster epic "The Departed" was named the best picture of 2006 at the 79th annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening at the Kodak Theatre. Scorsese won his elusive first directing Oscar for the film, which also won for adapted...Tags: Forest Whitaker, Eddie Murphy, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep
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'Shaft' Director Gordon Parks Dies at 93
Zap2It.comGordon Parks, who became the first African American staff photographer at Life magazine in the late 1940s and broke more ground in Hollywood two decades later as the first black person to direct a major studio film, "The Learning Tree," followed by the...Tags: John Cassavetes, Health and Safety at School, Movies, Minority Groups, Justice and Rights
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