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Movies take new look at countries
Special to The Morning CallWant to start a new country? Or put a fresh spin on an existing one? Well, after you've drafted a constitution and written the national anthem, there's something else you may want to do: make a movie. In the century or so since film was invented, movie...Tags: Indigenous People, Movies, Mumbai Terror Attacks, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Australia (movie)
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'An American Carol'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comIs there any filmmaker alive, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, capable of producing a truly incisive, intelligent satire about our politically polarized times? Not Ben Stein, who checked his dry wit at the door when he made the...Tags: Movies, Charles Dickens, Kentucky, Michael Moore, Religulous (movie)
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Luis Mandoki dissents with 'Fraude Mexico 2006'
Times Staff WriterLUIS MANDOKI has been called the Michael Moore of Mexico, a filmmaker whose overtly partisan documentaries preach messages to viewers who are already inclined to believe. But that's not the worst thing his critics had to say of Mandoki's most recent film,...Tags: Local Elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Movies, Basketball, Minority Groups
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His wit was hard-boiled
Special to The TimesWE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...Tags: Phil Spector, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Health and Safety at School, Maya Angelou
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Teach the controversy?
Today, Shermer and Lukianoff discuss efforts to include "intelligent design" and other such hypotheses in classroom curricula. Previously, they weighed allegations of instructor bias in college classrooms and debated what roles a school might have in...Tags: Johnny Cash, Health and Safety at School, Movies, Constitutional Issues, Medical Specialization
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The torch in San Francisco
The Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis. According to historians, Adolf Hitler wanted to promote his belief in an Aryan master race by symbolically linking the 1936 Berlin Games to the ancient Greek gods and rituals, hence the carrying of the...Tags: Human Rights, History, Adolf Hitler, Demonstration
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Olympics become a hurdle
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS isn't exactly the show Chinese government officials had in mind when they signed on to host the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. They had envisioned a sporting event full of Hollywood splendor ( Steven Spielberg would serve as an artistic...Tags: Human Rights, Genocide, Beijing Games, Justice and Rights, Defense
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Roman Genn's refined palette
MOSCOW-BORN, Los Angeles-based artist Roman Genn has come a long way from drawing Communist propaganda cartoons as child. His incisive caricatures have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country, often generating controversy with what he's...Tags: Ethics, Los Angeles, James Gray, Albert Einstein, Values
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Film's take on Irish history rankles Brits
Zap2It.comParis — CROWNED at Cannes one minute only to be buried in Britain the next, Ken Loach's new film, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," arrives in the U.S. with a rabble-rousing reputation. In May, Loach marched up Cannes' red steps to receive his...Tags: Movies, Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, Los Angeles
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'The Wind That Shakes the Barley'
Times Staff WriterFor director Ken Loach, the personal is always political, the political personal. The dean of British independent filmmakers, Loach has the gift of finding the intensely moving private emotions in broad, societal dilemmas. He does that with his fine new...Tags: Movies, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Wars and Interventions, Batman
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'The Goebbels Experiment'
Times Staff WriterJoseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's infamous minister of propaganda, was such a candid diarist and made sure events of his times were recorded exhaustively in all media that in a very real sense he is the true auteur of "The Goebbels Experiment," a...Tags: Beverly Hills, Movies, Joseph Goebbels, Kenneth Branagh, Adolf Hitler
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Shopping
To be sure, 'Gapification' (the proliferation of retail chains like the Gap, Banana Republic, Pottery Barn and others) is widespread and malls abound, but countless offbeat shops in LA's many distinct neighbourhoods will reward those with a knack for...Tags: Melrose, Madonna, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, California
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