Dateline: Los Angeles County
Weblog: purpletigressrose.blogspot.com
Articles: 191
Former theater critic for the LA Weekly and Los Angeles Times . For the last five years, an editing slave at a dot-com but recently laid off. Currently an under-employed freelance writer and artist.
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My Yahoo! Years, Part 1: Managers and Mismanagement in Pasadena and Burbank
Yahoo!'s problems include managers forgetting the rules of industrial relations--state and federal.
170
Opera Review (LA): The Fly
Can bad science fiction made good opera? Not in the case of the recent outing of "The Fly" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
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Theater Review (LA): Inside Privates Lives
It's a little bit of history, a little bit catty, and a lot of fun: six newsmakers portrayed with aplomb.
168
The Fly And Its Spawn
When man meets fly, it doesn't always end with a swat and a squish. Sometimes it's a hit of the sci-fi kind.
167
Movie Review: Alice Neel or When Motherhood Takes the Backseat to Artistic Expression
Alice Neel painted portraits, lived on welfare, and put her art before motherhood in order to be an artist.
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Movie Review: Save Me Gives a Sensitive Look at a Timely Issue
Does religious faith have a place for gay men or can gay men be reformed to become heterosexual?
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Movie Review: A Troubling Tale About Beauty in Trouble
Beauty can overcome the boundaries of class and economics and sometimes one sacrifices romantic love for maternal love.
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Movie Review: Life and Crime in Poland in Retrieval (Z Odzysku)
For love and money, a small-town man becomes involved in a loan shark business and loses the respect of his family and the woman he loves.
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Movie Review: A Man Named Pearl Makes a Difference
A Man Named Pearl is a small gem of a movie that should not, particularly in these dark economic times, be missed.
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Brideshead Revisited, Waugh's Panegyric Preached Over An Empty Coffin
Director Julian Jarrold's film fails to capture the essence of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 eulogy for the English country estate.
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