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What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?new

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox.
L.A. Weekly  |  Joe Donnelly  |  11-20-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialismnew

There's something worth examining in the McCain campaign's desire to boil the archetypal Joe the Plumber and the prosecutorial Joe McCarthy up into a strange brew they hope will get an anxious electorate drunk enough to put the Arizona senator in the White House.
L.A. Weekly  |  Joe Donnelly  |  10-31-2008  |  Commentary

Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyesnew

Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself and his new movie, Into the Wild.
L.A. Weekly  |  Joe Donnelly  |  09-24-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Lauren Weedman's Search for Homenew

Lauren Weedman's not a big star; she may be someday, or she may not, but when she's onstage I'd advise that you duck -- painful truths go whizzing by like bullets, send-ups rain down like bombs, and uncensored id explodes like shrapnel out of some internal minefield.
L.A. Weekly  |  Joe Donnelly  |  04-27-2007  |  Performance

Citizen Becknew

Coming to terms with our native son now is like coming to terms with Los Angeles now -- some of my wide-eyed wonder is gone, but L.A. is home now more than ever.
L.A. Weekly  |  Joe Donnelly  |  09-28-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

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