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Michael Winner, British filmmaker who directed 'Death Wish,' dies at 77 Jan 22nd 2013, 02:49 Michael Winner, the flamboyant British film director best known for the "Death Wish" series of the 1970s and '80s, died Monday at his home in London. He was 77. His wife, Geraldine, announced his death in a statement released to the media. Mr. Winner, who reinvented himself in recent years as an outspoken restaurant critic for London's Sunday Times, revealed last summer that he had heart and liver problems and that specialists had given him 18 months to live. Read full article >> The inauguration: A far better view from the couch Jan 22nd 2013, 01:34 Although President Obama's second inauguration made for a cheerful and occasionally stirring stretch of live television Monday, it's still easy to get lured over to the argument for staging something on a far lesser scale, especially when it involves incumbency. The images from Sunday's official swearing-in at the Oval Office efficiently gave us all we truly needed to see, including a glimpse of the first lady's new bangs and a requisite bit of comic relief from Sasha Obama. ("You didn't mess up," she congratulated her father.) Read full article >> Book review: 'The Painted Girls,' by Cathy Marie Buchanan Jan 22nd 2013, 01:25 Edgar Degas's wax-and-fabric statuette "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" has held the curiosity of millions in its 28 bronze reproductions, but far fewer know the heart-rending history of the model, Marie van Goethem, and her sisters. In "The Painted Girls," a historically based work of fiction rich with naturalistic details of late-19th-century Paris, Cathy Marie Buchanan paints the girls who spring from the page as vibrantly as a dancer's leap across a stage. Read full article >>

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