Link: Exhibition Detail: Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 | Skirball Cultural Center. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION You love their movies. Now discover their stories. The exhibition Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 explores how the experiences of German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them Jews—influenced the classic […]
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Story by DANIEL MILLER Illustrations by MORGAN SCHWEITZER Photography by GINA FERAZZI NOVEMBER 1, 2014, LA Times http://graphics.latimes.com/finding-marlowe/?=hpt It was hot and I was late for lunch. I was feeling mean, like I’d been left out in the sun too long. We were meeting at a joint on La Brea, the kind of place where […]
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AirTalk | December 29th, 2014, 10:43am “All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart,” author Raymond Chandler once wrote. The statement applies to Chandler as well as to his literary alter ego Phillip Marlowe. Readers have come to know about what Chandler thought about Los Angeles and a number of other subjects through his […]
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SEPTEMBER 08, 2014 6:39 PM ET By JASON SHEEHAN NPR Listen to the review here: http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=343414349&m=346879430&t=audio James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’ Is A Brutal, Beautiful Police Procedural There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy’s newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It’s a long and sprawling book […]
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