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  Days of Plunder - The life and fast times of Don Simpson

  When film producer Don Simpson died of heart failure in 1996 at the age of 52, no one was particularly surprised. As one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers as well as its most notorious bad boy, Simpson lived a life that begged an early dea...

  by Charles Fleming on April 30, 1998

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  A Clockwork L'Orange - Glen Berger's playful homage to science

  GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE Nos. 21 & 22By GLEN BERGER At CIRCLE X THEATER CO. The Lost Studio Theater 130 S. La Brea Ave. Through April 26 You may or may not have seen, in any number of textbooks, an antique engraving that depicts Galileo showing off a ...

  by Steven Mikulan on April 30, 1998

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  Monstrous Disgrace

  There was a tingle in the news. UCLA's Royce Hall, shut for over four years of earthquake repairs and retrofitting, was to reopen its doors with a most newsworthy event: a major collaboration between those blithe, innovative spirits, director/desi...

  by Alan Rich on April 30, 1998

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  The Morning After

  Inquiring ears want to know: What sort of presence -- and, more pointedly, what sorts of sounds -- will the new host of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic bring to the airwaves when he takes over on Monday? Will he continue to refer to the time of day...

  by Libby Molyneaux on April 23, 1998

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  Monsters Galore - The 19th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

  If the 19th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are any indication, 1997 was the year the newpaper's theater critics couldn't make up their minds, awarding a record-setting three ties (for Play Writing, Com edy Ensemble and Set Design). In a ceremony...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on April 23, 1998

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  The Gardiner Variety

  Several weeks ago I wrote off the symphonies of Robert Schumann as some of music's "most honorable failures." Esa-Pekka Salonen had performed the "Rhenish" Symphony in an acceptable but hardly stirring manner -- as he had the "Spring" Symphony a ye...

  by Alan Rich on April 23, 1998

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  Betye Saar at the California African-American Museum

  "Ritual & Remembrance/Personal Icons" provides an introduction to the work of as semblage artist Betye Saar. Saar, who watched Watts Towers being built when she was a child growing up locally, finds most of her materials at flea markets, at antique...

  by Lisa Anne Auerbach on April 16, 1998

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  The Drawing Group at Loyola Marymount

  THE DRAWING GROUP At the LABAND ART GALLERY Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd., Westchester Through April 18 The 13 artists in "The Drawing Group" put a lot of faith in appearances. Not that they presume a thing can be known by i...

  by Carmine Iannaccone on April 16, 1998

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  The Titanic Transcripts - Major disaster, no Celine Dion

  Buried in this abridged pocket-dictionary-size edition of the official transcripts of the 1912 Senate investigation into the Titanic disaster is as clear-headed an account of history's greatest catastrophe at sea as there is. Although it is at times ...

  by Greg Goldin on April 16, 1998

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  'Da Funk

  Watching Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, I was not so much watching after a while as remembering, in my body, what drew me to tap as a kid. It was less a dance to me than a declaration of spirit (I tap, therefore I am), and so wonderfully ...

  by Erin J. Aubrey on April 16, 1998

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  'Da Noise

  Like most in the audience, I rose to my feet to applaud the virtuoso cast of Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk. But I also was struck by a question: Just how new was this much-touted reinvention of tap dancing? The answer: not as much as adver...

  by Howard Blume on April 16, 1998

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  Heavy Duty - A new black theater arrives in Inglewood

  Having played everyone from Jesus to the devil, 33-year-old actor Spencer Scott is now taking on a new role, one he officially assumed last year, as producing director of the Unity Players Ensemble, a black theater group based in Inglewood. As the ...

  by Erin J. Aubrey on April 16, 1998

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  P.D.Q. on the Q.T.

  Every year around this time, the excellent local ensemble called the Armadillo String Quartet puts on a concert of music by its anointed composer-in-nonresidence, Peter Schickele. Peter comes out from New York for the concert; sometimes -- as a p...

  by Alan Rich on April 16, 1998

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  Home of the Brave

  "Now that's music," whispered the man behind me to his companion, as Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic launched into the merry A-major opening bars of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony. After a stiff dose of forward-marching works fro...

  by Alan Rich on April 9, 1998

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  The Prime Minister of Culture - George Steiner's sonorous solemnities

  ERRATA: An Examined Life By GEORGE STEINER Yale University Press 172 pages 25 hardcover A little learning is a dangerous thing, though not nearly as dangerous as a lot of it. George Steiner, for example, would probably write twice as well if h...

  by George Scialabba on April 2, 1998

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  Black Magic, White Funk - A Broadway hit and a pair of new plays

  Every play is, on some level, a map of the world, a grid of common reference points. The Broadway hit Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (at the Ahmanson Theater), for example, is a wildly kinetic song-and-tap-dance tour of African-American histor...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on April 2, 1998

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  The Pursuit of Hippiness

  Robert Ashley's music offends me, insults my intelligence, wearies my posterior. Twice in my career as ear-for-hire I have been moved to issue a resonant "boo" at a public event. Once was at a Bang on a Can marathon concert in New York three years ...

  by Alan Rich on April 2, 1998

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  Watch on the Rhone - What did you do during the Occupation?

  There's a moment in Gertrude Stein's play about a French town during the German Occupation when one character advises another to "just be natural and do your part." It's a gently ironic suggestion, given how the actors in Interact Theater's productio...

  by Steven Mikulan on March 26, 1998

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  Smash the Technorealist State

  On March 12, a self-organized system of writers and pundits proclaimed themselves "Technorealists" and posted a manifesto on the World Wide Web to explain what that means (http://www. technorealism.org). Among its signatories are writers I respect, t...

  by Judith Lewis on March 26, 1998

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  Finnish Touches

  It was Magnus Lindberg's week: music long awaited, handsomely produced, agreeably if not ecstatically received. Finnish-born in 1958 - three days older than Esa-Pekka Salonen - Lindberg is already known here for some extraordinary works on disc, musi...

  by Alan Rich on March 26, 1998