November 2011
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Fact
The three members of Quad City DJs were called Jay Ski, JeLana LeFleur, and C.C. Lemonhead.
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“Take The Long Way Home,” from...
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R.I.P. John Neville, star of Terry Gilliam's 'The... →
I’m actually pretty sad about this. I had forgotten how much I love this movie, and Mr. Neville’s performance is a big part of it. I actually went through a mild Baron Munchausen phase around age 18, tracking down a copy of the original German book and a 1943 film version produced by the Nazis(!).
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Artie Shaw and his Orchestra doing C....
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The most joyful album of 2011.
“She invited me up to the sixteenth floor for a drink - and I didn’t come down for four months.”
- My dad, on dating an alleged “lingerie model” in the 1970s
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from the pages of the New York Times
To the Editor:
“Excuse Me; I Must Have Missed Part of the Movie” (The Week in Review, 7 November) cites Federico Fellini as an example of a filmmaker whose style gets in the way of his storytelling and whose films, as a result, are not easily accessible to audiences. Broadening that argument, it includes other artists: Ingmar Bergman, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Bernardo Bertolucci, John...
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A sampling of the dreams I had last night
Dream One: I was getting my Masters in Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Chicago, which was located in a 1940s-style hotel in Los Angeles, with palm trees and a swimming pool in the central courtyard. My roommate was a co-worker of mine who I have never spoken to, this little bear of a dude named Richard. All the girls at the Art Institute were really chipper and flirty and when I asked...
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