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...Romesh Ratnesar. With reporting by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt...
...took 21st century technology to create what nature had by the Triassic period: a free-range dinosaur. Built by Walt Disney Imagineering, this friendly fellow goes by the name Lucky. He's 9 ft. tall, and unlike his animatronic ancestors (which date to the singing birds and flowers in Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room that opened in 1963), Lucky wanders on his own, untethered by any wires and cables. He can laugh, sneeze, smile, yell and sign autographs, and once in a while, he gets the hiccups. What's his secret? His brain resides not in that cute little head...
...back with a new book, Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Dr. Coles describes the effect of Springsteen’s music on his audience while demonstrating why Springsteen deserves a place among America’s greatest literary talents, including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange and Walker Percy, specifically focusing on their commonality of inspiration: America’s common people. In Coles’ interpretation, Springsteen embodies American culture and engages it, shaping a distinct version of American life. This study comes on the heels of such best...
...city devoted to spectacle, Los Angeles doesn't have many places where you can just sit around and take things in. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry's magnificent new building, is located across the street from a big multilevel parking lot. That's a very Los Angeles place to be, of course, but not a great place to be seen from. Gehry's other masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, stretches out along the Nervion River, across from any number of cafes, where you can kick back and enjoy how it reclines along the water like Cleopatra...
...began in 1987, when Lillian Disney, Walt's widow, provided a surprise gift of $50 million to build a new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which for years had been unhappily stashed in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a slab of '60s-style bureaucratic neoclassicism with mediocre acoustics. The following year Gehry won the competition to design the new hall. At the time--a decade before the debut at Bilbao--Gehry was best known as the man who made chain link and plywood into respectable building materials. Lillian, who was nearing 90 and whose taste ran to brick and thatched...