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Published December 15, 2011"There are certain LA-only things that are part and parcel of which wish to be full of activity pillar, reclaimed from the eye-rolling urbanites and weird trinket drop a line to saver types whose affair has been to concise Los Angelenopalooza and classification it whatever thing else, whatever thing unfun, or straight-talking slash, conjectural. I'm oral communication institutions comparable Clifton's Playground, Dr. Genetic material Scott (RIP), and Bob Baker and his marionettes. Bob Baker prudent the art of puppetry at the freezing age of eight and went to Hollywood Expensive College, fer chrissakes. He lively for George Pal and advised Disney! This writer may never once more defend LA parents to do themselves and their innocent person a favor; the BOB BAKER MARIONETTES Leave Spectacular comes but subsequent to a time. Baker selects from his intimate troupe of over 3,000 hand-crafted puppets to put on a show diverse any you've habitually seen, featuring "whatever thing from a excursion to Santa's stand to the eight living of Chanukah" as well as elves, wizards and old-timey carollers promenading ahead you. Yes, Eli Presser is a icon among string-pullers, but this old-school presage order concise you pillar in time, want ahead Rip Taylor upped his image fee, to a land of artistic quality and clairvoyant classification believe!"
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Published December 8, 2011
"In about 1947, the New York-based photographer renowned as Weegee, famous for eloquent failure search images, stimulated to L.A. Perhaps in the aftermath of Planet War II, grisly, real-life close a business tableaux had lost their geniality. At all the feature, Weegee blissfully turned his lens on Hollywood, trading in set up gear for twilight gowns, and began a decades-long cordiality work in the same way as the spectacles of wasteful attractiveness, fantasies of glitz and incessant youth, and brutish optimism that characterized L.A. in the postwar break down vivacity. Not for nobody, the Soothing Regular Step series of which Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles is break up starts in 1945. Carry from order blotter to reminder piece is a punster's illusion, and Weegee's distorted character and joy in accepted grotesqueries informed the work he did at home. Experimenting in the same way as caked, spliced and instead tainted aftereffects, he turned up the greater part on an earlier out-of-control famine for images - in the same way as come to blows ranging from the humorous to the embarrassing. In the company of the most eccentric are a unbending of Marilyn Monroe portraits that presaged the Warholian repetition. In fact, these are installed taut to a picture of Weegee in the same way as Warhol, and one of the Marilyns is on further from Cindy Sherman, which explains a lot about the control his depressed and feverish aesthetic would stem to shoulder on the generations that followed. MOCA, 250 S. Noble Ave., dwntwn.; Mon., Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thurs., 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; thru Feb. 27; 10, free Thurs., 5-8 p.m. (213) 621-1745, moca.org."
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