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Persepolis 2.0 is an updated version of Satrapi's story, created by different authors who combined Satrapi's illustrations with new text about the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Only ten pages long, Persepolis 2.0 recounts the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, 2009.
Persepolis is a 2007 French adult animated biographical drama film written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution .
The Mark Taper Forum opened in 1967 as part of the Los Angeles Music Center, the West Coast equivalent of Lincoln Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Welton Becket and Associates. Peter Kiewit and Sons (now Kiewit Corporation) was the builder. [1] The dedication took place on April 9, 1967, at an event attended by Governor Ronald Reagan. [2]
In the 1200 block of Central Avenue is the 1930s era Streamline Modern Los Angeles bottling plant of the Coca-Cola company, designed to resemble an ocean liner, complete with porthole windows and metal-railed catwalks. It was declared Los Angeles Historic-cultural Monument #138 in 1975.
2001: Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award for Persepolis [30] 2002: Angoulême Prize for Scenario for Persepolis: Tome 2 [31] 2005: Angoulême Best Comic Book Award for Poulet aux prunes [12] 2007: Jury Prize for Persepolis (tied with Silent Light), Cannes Film Festival [17] 2007: Best Animation: Los Angeles Film Critics Association [18] 2008: Gat ...
1. Think of it as part planetarium, part mini-Sphere. Cosm has roots in science and education. The firm owns Spitz Inc., the planetarium endeavor founded in the 1940s by Armand Spitz, a principal ...
The avenue numbers generally reflect the Los Angeles street grid beginning with Avenue 16 at the 1600 block north of 1st Street in Downtown through Avenue 67 at the 6700 block in Highland Park. [4] North of the Los Angeles River Pasadena Avenue and Figueroa Street assume the role of Main Street and divide house numbers on streets running east ...
6th street travels continuously for nine miles across central and downtown Los Angeles.From west to east, 6th street begins on the Los Angeles-Beverly Hills border, then travels through central Los Angeles (including the neighborhoods of Mid-Wilshire, Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Koreatown, Wilshire Center, and Westlake), then continues through downtown (including the Financial District ...