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At San Jose's Overfelt High, miracles to parade at graduation
San Jose Mercury NewsAt every graduation, miracles march across the stage. This year, one of them will be Cesar Torres. At the end of his freshman year at Overfelt High, Torres had six F's and one D. He went downhill from there. "I messed up," he said -- until he...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Graduation, California State University, Long Beach, Teaching and Learning, Immigration
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, James Mason, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arts and Culture
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'Distant Intimacy,' Gaddis letters open up very different literary lives
The Buffalo NewsIf one is to believe Joseph Epstein's introduction to "Distant Intimacy" -- one of the most wickedly entertaining books anyone is likely to concoct all year -- he and his 335-page email correspondent Frederic Raphael still haven't met. Nor have they...Tags: Tom Conti, David Foster Wallace, Authors, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat
Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...
Tags: Philosophy, Religion and Belief, Google Inc., Dave Brubeck, North by Northwest (movie)
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Mother takes synagogue to view son's film
Hollywood resident Brenda Ascher is a proud Jewish mother. Her son Rodney Ascher is the director of the documentary, "Room 237," where people provide numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining." Ascher and...Tags: Judaism, Entertainment, Movies, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Religion and Belief
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: Stamford, Arts and Culture, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., John Beifuss column
Commercial AppealThe 16th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival begins this year on Halloween. Appropriately, then, the organization is getting a jump on the holiday with a horror-themed double feature Tuesday night that brings two much-anticipated movies to the Malco...Tags: JG Ballard, Celebrities, A Clockwork Orange (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Movies
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Tablets in galleries will help visitors learn more about artists
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art has long been known for its cutting-edge exhibitions. Now it's getting technology to match. SECCA is adding interactive technology to help visitors learn more about the works on display. Its first step in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Apple iPad, Arts, Fine Artists, Artists
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Holocaust films get personal with descendants of Nazis
The Holocaust has long been a deep and disquieting source of material for filmmakers, especially documentarians. As firsthand accounts of World War II naturally dwindle, though, cinematic inquiries on the subject have been shifting into more personal...Tags: Human Interest, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Movies, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Words, images, music, courtesy of Bert Stern
The soul-filling and gorgeous concert film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, started out as something else — a fiction feature, with jazz and Newport, R.I., as the backdrops, according to photographer and...Tags: Entertainment, Mahalia Jackson, Movies, Festive Events, Music
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Reel Critics: 'Oblivion' a thinking man's thriller
Big-budget science-fiction movies are often vehicles for selling toys to kids and merchandise to adult fans. But there was a time when these films offered compelling visions of a strange future far beyond conventional thinking. "Forbidden Planet" in 1956,...
Tags: The Place Beyond the Pines (movie), Paula Patton, Science Fiction (Movie Genre), Jonah Bobo, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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The Joplin Globe, Mo., Wally Kennedy column
The Joplin Globe, Mo.This sounds like it could be fun -- fondue and martinis. A new restaurant, The Far Side of the Moon Fondue & Martini Bar, is under construction in a storefront at 106 S. Main St. It's next door to Bruce's Point of View Optical. It's being opened by...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Entertainment, Machine Manufacturing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fondue
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