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Today in history: Zoot Suit riots rock L.A.
June 3, 2015In 1943, simmering racial unease exploded as hundreds of white sailors stationed in Los Angeles stormed into East L.A. and began beating Hispanics.
Read moreThe cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy”
June 3, 2015The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
Read moreRay’s eye: The magnificent Apu Trilogy rides again
June 2, 2015Before there was Bollywood or "The Mindy Project" there was Satyajit Ray, India's movie maestro.
Read moreControversial Aloha co-stars Hawaiian independence leader
June 1, 2015A lynch mob is attacking writer/director Cameron Crowe's new movie "Aloha," which opened May 29.
Read moreThe fetishism of commodities: “Mad Men,” capitalism, and its discontents
June 1, 2015What made "Mad Men" arguably the greatest dramatic series in American TV history is that there was a method to its madness.
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