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The Crowd: Resident aims for $30,000 for cancer research by May
This is a story about a legend and a young lady.
Arguably the late John Wayne — or the "Duke," as locals still like to call him — lives on in memory with tremendous adoration in the hearts of locals who recall his formidable presence in the...Tags: Entertainment, Celebrities and Health Issues, Liz Smith, Golf, Medical Research
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Elisabeth Weinstock's flair for the exotic
, Los Angeles TimesLuxury designer and native Angeleno Elisabeth Weinstock knows the art of blending elegance with edge — a skill she attributes to having grown up a punk rock kid in Beverly Hills (the spiked Christian Louboutin sneakers she is wearing one recent...Tags: Landforms, Caves and Caverns, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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1968 Academy Awards delayed
FrameworkApr 10, 1968: Arrivals at the Academy Awards outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.... -
The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: Tommy Lee Jones, Orson Welles, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Music, Double Indemnity (movie)
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Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in...
Tags: Colon Cancer, Wimbledon Championships, Sports, Charlie Chaplin, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Tributes to Mary Pickford, Michel Legrand among week's highlights
It's a big weekend for fans of legendary screen star Mary Pickford and Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand ("Summer of '42"). Christine Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," will be talking about the new book and singing copies...
Tags: Band of Outsiders, Entertainment, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Pickford, Robert Mitchum
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Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'
Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...Tags: Family, Paul Mazursky, Joss Whedon, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart
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When skinny-dipping didn't violate the Code ★★★ 1/2
In the early sound era, especially between 1930 and mid-1934, Hollywood movies enjoyed a freedom of expression — salacious, violent, often outrageous expression — we know today as the pre-Code era. The film industry's self-appointed watchdog...
Tags: Genres, Ralph Bellamy, Claudette Colbert, Joan Bennett, Eugene Pallette
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Love Notes: So many differences, all so irrelevant
Janice Patterson remembers calling her mother to announce she was engaged. There wasn't much excitement on the other end of the line. "She said, 'Well, I'll tell your father. It's your life,' Janice recalls. "Then she said, 'I have to get off the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Religion and Belief, Hyde Park, Liver Disease, Weddings
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: #VoterID, the morning after.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We've all had them -- those hallucinatory nights, where you wake up in the darkness of your own 3 a.m. of the soul, wondering why you're dreaming about Spencer Tracy chasing after you with a...... -
Tonight: ‘Monday Night Football,’ ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ ‘Revolution’
The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel“Monday Night Football” on ESPN was the most-watched show in the nation last Monday. ESPN will try to repeat that feat with the Chicago-Dallas game at 8:20 p.m. Also on the menu: ***”Dancing With the Stars” has its competitors do... -
'The Sessions' tells tale of the virgin's diary ★★★ 1/2
In 1990 the writer Mark O'Brien contributed an article for the literary magazine The Sun called "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate." A survivor of childhood polio, the substantially disabled O'Brien spent much of his sleeping and waking hours confined to an...
Tags: Entertainment, Methamphetamine (drug), Moon Bloodgood, William H. Macy, Winter's Bone (movie)
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