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We are slowly emerging from the pandemic, and it sure looks like there are a lot of things that need fixing. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news.
The Echo Park shutdown
Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to
Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling the park at regular intervals as well as parked along the lake’s north end.
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63 Up came out in 2019, and he said he hoped to release
84 Up at age 99. He s pictured above at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2012. Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images for DIFF
Originally published on January 9, 2021 7:28 am
Film director Michael Apted died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles, according to his agent, Roy Ashton. No details of his death were given. At 79, Apted left behind a body of work ranging from biopics to a James Bond movie to a celebrated documentary series that established Apted as a pioneering longitudinal filmmaker.
Apted s audience literally grew up with him. In 1963, Apted was a 22-year-old Cambridge law student from southeast England who aspired to be a filmmaker. He found a job as a researcher for a TV documentary called