by | Feb 7, 2009 | Los Angeles
from the LA Times On a Los Feliz hill, murder — then mystery Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times The hilltop Los Feliz mansion where Dr. Harold Perelson killed his wife and then himself in 1959. It has sat vacant ever since. Inside a mansion, it’s as if...
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from The Economist Ideological debate in China The Little Red Bookshop Feb 5th 2009 | BEIJING | The Economist print edition Whose little-read leftist texts may be coming back into vogue Illustration by Claudio Munoz IN A small bookshop on the ninth floor of an office...
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from The New York Times Capturing History With Video of the TV By MANOHLA DARGIS A number of years ago, the critic Amy Taubin, in a hilarious review of a misbegotten movie from Abel Ferrara, wrote that it “inspires the ontological question ‘What are films, and why is...
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from The Times South Africa Barbie’s midlife crisis AFP NEW YORK – She doesn’t have a streak of grey hair, her breasts remain unnaturally perky, and she has endless outfits – but Barbie is feeling miserable ahead of her 50th birthday. Not only is she...
