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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The Writing Was on the Wall But GM Couldn't Read It
The future when we'd need to replace fossil fuels is now.
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Movie Review: A Better Life Without the King?
Michael Skolnik's documentary is a thought-provoking though flawed look at the world's last absolute monarch.
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Movie Review: Times and Winds Is a Lyrical Look at Teen Angst
This beautiful, subtle movie tells how three young teens deal with their life and hardships in a small Turkish village.
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Movie Review: Color Hollywood Yellow in Arthur Dong's Hollywood Chinese
With Jet Li and Ang Lee having major movie mojo, are we free from a manufactured image of the Chinese in Hollywood films?
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Movie Review: Gary Sinise's 1992 Of Mice and Men
A movie worth renting, before or after you read the book, to remind you of where we once were as a country.
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Interview with Filmmaker Yung Chang: Up the Yangtze On Slow Boat to China
Yung Chang's documentary is a slow boat to China, a China that doesn't exist, a China that will stop existing, and a China that will exist in the future.
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Movie Review: Don Juan (1998)
This version movie of Moliere's play is grim and uninspired.
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Theater Review: Fahrenheit 451 (South Pasadena, CA)
Ray Bradbury's own scripting and his theater company's production shows promise, but the master of sci-fi short stories isn't the master of the stage yet.
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Theater Review: Don Juan (LA)
Don Juan gets his due at Glendale's A Noise Within. This is a sexy, lustful, and wildly funny revival of Moliere's morality play.
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Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Atagoal's Cat Magical Forest
Can a fat cat save the world from serene conformity?
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