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A religious group bizarrely believes a writer has come to save the world. THE trouble started when Raj Patel appeared on American TV to plug his latest book, an analysis of the financial crisis called The Value of Nothing. The San Francisco-based author, 37, thought his slot on comedy talk show The Colbert Report went well enough: the host made a few jokes, Patel talked about his work and then, job done, he went home. ]]>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:05:31http://t.love.com/311283575Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:25:40http://t.love.com/311256157Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:37:27http://t.love.com/311156360Sun, 21 Mar 2010 6:17:13http://t.love.com/311136292Sun, 21 Mar 2010 3:28:52http://t.love.com/311053119Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:45:11http://t.love.com/311008128Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:06:20http://t.love.com/311007071
The London-born author, 37, thought his slot on comedy talkshow The Colbert Report went well enough: the host made a few jokes, Patel talked a little about his work and then, job done, he went back to his home in San Francisco. Shortly afterwards, however, things took a strange turn. Over the course of a couple of days, cryptic messages started filling his inbox. ]]>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:00:16http://t.love.com/310962574Sat, 20 Mar 2010 7:02:18http://t.love.com/310935453Sat, 20 Mar 2010 3:50:39http://t.love.com/310879871Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:33:59http://t.love.com/310874538Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:09:02http://t.love.com/310868277
There's a certain amount of restraint that must be used when making a "quirky" comedy. You must be offbeat, but you can't be too weird, otherwise you risk losing the interest of the audience. There's an equal amount of care that must go into making a film with a subtle, but vast science fiction element. ]]>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:30:25http://t.love.com/310838200Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:10:47http://t.love.com/310805411
BACK STAGE announced its Garland Awards March 11, but eschewed an actual ceremony. TOV is a new dance-theater piece by Rosanna Gamson, this weekend at REDCAT . JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN Excerpts from his writings will be read by film and TV actors at the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, 1210 Fourth Street, Sunday March 21 at 3 p.m. Good way to avoid the L.A. Marathon. ]]>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:19:20http://t.love.com/310747580Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:08:01http://t.love.com/310723540Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:53:25http://t.love.com/310699822
Another dig is to be held at the site of where the UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered. The original find of 1,500 gold and silver pieces was made by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in a farmer's field in Staffordshire in July 2009. Experts say the new dig is not expected to turn up any more gold, but could reveal how the original items came to be there. ]]>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:50:12http://t.love.com/310688138Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:18:05http://t.love.com/310676161Fri, 19 Mar 2010 9:33:00http://t.love.com/310624663Fri, 19 Mar 2010 6:38:49http://t.love.com/310576985Fri, 19 Mar 2010 3:34:25http://t.love.com/310542261Fri, 19 Mar 2010 0:52:53http://t.love.com/310516111
Once we move from childhood to adulthood, playfulness seems to take a back seat to responsibility. Many of us lose that sense of wonder and fun that makes all of our daily activities seem wondrous. Two recent UK public art projects have used absurdity to inject a sense of wonder and fun back into the daily lives of people who pass by the Big Screens in Liverpool and Edinburgh. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:21:39http://t.love.com/310496091
Introduced to British audiences as luckless Liz Lemon in TV's 30 Rock, writer Tina Fey has come a long way for a self-confessed "super-nerd" whose career once revolved around making other people sound funny. More than anything, Fey's savagely spot-on skits of former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin propelled her into the spotlight, adding an Emmy to her growing collection of awards including five other Emmys, two Golden Globes and numerous Writers Guild awards. Born Elizabeth Stamatina ...]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:27http://t.love.com/310491760
When Nathanael West , the author of the comic-grotesque novels "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) and "The Day of the Locust" (1939), died in a car crash in 1940, at 37, it didn't surprise anyone who knew him. He was a notoriously bad driver, the kind of guy who'd blow through 11 straight red lights or take his eyes off the road to talk to someone in the back seat. West's crash — he was returning to Los Angeles from a hunting trip in Mexicali, and his car was full of dead birds and beer bottles — made national headlines. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:00http://t.love.com/310481190Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:31:48http://t.love.com/310433226Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:53:57http://t.love.com/310407888
In what might be the greatest Finland reference since Monty Python's "Finland Song" , Heikki Kovalainen has participated in a commercial for the 2010 F1 season. He runs with horses. He fishes with his hands. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:35:30http://t.love.com/310404258
In a newscast near the beginning of Repo Men , an anchor informs her viewers about an ongoing conflict in Nigeria, pausing briefly to insert the quick aside, that's in Africa." That fleeting moment says a lot about the world of the movie, a place much like ours, only slightly dumber. It's a bit more brutal, too. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:23:59http://t.love.com/310334916
One of the odd things about people with very left-wing views the Middle East is that they're obsessed with the political influence of American Jews foreign yet almost completely unfamiliar with the actual beliefs of the subject of their obsession. It's also exemplified, in unusually stark and entertaining form, in a recent contretemps between blogger Juan Cole and the Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg. The episode begins with Cole jumping into one of the regular disputes between Goldberg and fellow Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:21:33http://t.love.com/310263927
THE case of the state's first genderless citizen has forced the equivalent of a bureaucratic sex change on the government. It has revoked an official document issued last month to an androgynous Sydneysider called Norrie whose sex was listed as genderless. Sydney's most famous gender-ender made the news from London to Beijing last week when the Herald revealed that the government had for the first time issued a registered details certificate and a change of name certificate saying "sex: not specified". ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 9:11:40http://t.love.com/310238998Thu, 18 Mar 2010 7:48:26http://t.love.com/310181584
Born and raised in Cape Cod, Spowart has lived, studied and worked on the Peninsula since 1989, churning work out through a number of mediums, including oils, beeswax, photographic xerography and tar. Her landscapes are pastoral, expressionist; they could accompany a lyrical children's book. One can make out the women and objects that make up her nudes and still lifes, but they are abstracted into shapes that recall sketches, painted with confident, contrasting blocks of colors and swatches of texture. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 4:37:21http://t.love.com/310114868Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:14:16http://t.love.com/310078067Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:52:53http://t.love.com/310067541Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:05:04http://t.love.com/310041562Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:39:58http://t.love.com/309976552Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:21:32http://t.love.com/309945212
Most people think of the classical guitarist as a solitary bird, found under a tree somewhere in Spain. But the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, coming to the Wharton Center Sunday, March 21, proves conclusively that these temperamental animals also flock. Since the group got its start in 1980, LAGQ founding member William Kanengiser and his colleagues have taken maximum advantage of the guitar's tonal range to conjure a diversity of styles and effects. ]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:57:57http://t.love.com/309874103
Sitcoms, exhausted and presumed creatively dead just a few years ago, are staging a comeback on the web. Shorter and darker than the half-hour comedies that ruled TV for five decades, the new wave of net-based series draw from documentary-style breakthroughs The Office and Arrested Development , which gave the wheezing format a second wind early this decade. While a handful of TV comedies still feel fresh — witness nerd goddess Tina Fey's half-hour gem 30 Rock , starring recent Wired cover ...]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 9:34:27http://t.love.com/309855015Wed, 17 Mar 2010 8:47:40http://t.love.com/309810467
The West End star will play the Lady of the Lake in a touring production of the Monty Python Tony Award-winning show. "I've been very lucky to play such a fabulous part as Nancy in Oliver! , and now also to play the fabulous diva called Lady of the Lake - I'm over the Monty moon," said Prenger. "I love Spamalot so it's a great opportunity to take part in such a fun show. I can't wait." ]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 6:22:39http://t.love.com/309802938
A stonemason killed while working on a building site was laid to rest before hundreds of friends and family. David Evans' brothers Tom and Lewis said the 23-year-old was the happiest he had ever been before he died following an incident in which it is believed a limestone block fell on him. They, along with Mr Evans' parents Liz and Jim and girlfriend Brittany Shaw, remembered him at a moving humanist service in Tilehurst on Friday. ]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 5:57:04http://t.love.com/309753664
ADDAMS FAMILY Stars Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth sat down with USA Today for a Q&A to talk about the show, their quirky characters and what they feel will surprise people about the new musical. Here is an excerpt of the interview from USA Today: Q: When did you first become familiar with the Addams Family? ]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 2:22:01http://t.love.com/309748444Wed, 17 Mar 2010 1:55:32http://t.love.com/309744392
Let's face it; actually, you either love it or hate it. Funny, tear-jerking, uplifting, and the perfect feel-good film for Christmas, or as lifted from the Monty Python sketch about Oscar Wilde, a stream of bat's piss in the night. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, Love Actually is a good old British rom-com, played out during the run up to Christmas. ]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 1:29:57http://t.love.com/309721693
Released by Warner BBC to bank on the extreme popularity of Tim Burton's recent 3-D pseudo-sequel of the same name, BBC's Alice in Wonderland television play is a tad monotonous and suffers from a bad case of tedium, not to mention a half-asleep lead star. You're familiar with the original Lewis Carroll story's narrative: young Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) goes out to the countryside for a day in the sun with her older sister, and slowly drowses off to what we assume to be a very vivid dream. She ...]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:48:21http://t.love.com/309695796
The trailer for David Simon's HBO series Treme is meaningfully edited, smart, and evocative. But most touching of all: That is a grinning, shirtless Steve Zahn. · Centurion made a surprise SXSW debut at the Alamo Draft House. The good news: It's entertaining. ]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:07:08