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Love, L.A. Style

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

by Chris Herrington ... Garry Marshall is best known as the director of Pretty Woman and is beloved by me solely for his supporting turn in Albert Brooks' Lost in America. But at heart, this Hollywood vet is a TV guy, having honed his craft for slight, easily digestible comedy as a writer/director/producer for such hit series as The Odd Couple, Happy Days, and Laverne & Shirley. Marshall's filmography also includes a couple of writing credits for Love, American Style. That forgettable series

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Print masterpieces: Brooks' Jacob Lawrence exhibit stirs the mind and heart

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Published July 1, 2009 at 5:43 p.m.

As powerful narrative, the work of Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence speaks directly to the African-American experience. As powerful art, it speaks in equally direct tones to the human experience. In one of the most visually exhilarating exhibits to arrive at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in some time, "The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, 1963-2000," chronicles most of the etchings, woodcuts, silk screens and lithographs by this important 20th century artist ...

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