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Elvis at the crossroads

Elvis is back in the building. On March 14 at the Cinerama Dome, Elvis will return, one more time, in a special 40th anniversary screening of the “Singer Presents Elvis” special from 1968, or “The Comeback Special” as it is more popularly known, as the kickoff event of the Paley Center for Media’s PaleyFest 2008. […]

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The Great Wall of Bernstein

Over the course of a year, I collect books I should read and books I want to read, but — should have/would have/could have — many I never get around to reading. Over the last few months, as last year came to a close and this new one began, and as a side benefit of […]

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The Genesis of Early Dylan

When it comes to Bob Dylan, I think it’s fair to say that I’m a fan of long standing — my wife still teases me about the time, shortly after we’d moved to Los Angeles, when in her car, radio on, she was surprised to hear me as a call-in contestant to KSCA’s “Lyrically Speaking” […]

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KCRW gives us 'The Business'

In an underground office on the campus of Santa Monica College, Claude Brodesser-Akner is working with his producer, Matt Holzman, and associate producer, Darby Maloney, to describe the current status of the Oscar broadcast — and work in a pun. Finally, Brodesser-Akner says, with some satisfaction, “The Oscars are mired.” Welcome to the world of […]

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LACMA gets Contemporary

In February, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will unveil the first phase of its renovation and expansion, including the opening of a new building devoted to contemporary art — the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (that’s Broad as in Eli and Edythe Broad, our local Medicis) or, as the acronymists at LACMA have dubbed […]

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Dreaming of a blue future (Roger Director)

Let me state, for the record, that I know nothing about sports. I don’t watch them; I don’t follow them. My parents didn’t. I never did as a kid. I don’t now with my family. Occasionally in the finals of a season, a few names flutter into my consciousness and then, just as quickly, disappear. […]

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