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David Copley, former owner-publisher of S.D. Union-Tribune, dies
L.A. NOWDavid Copley, owner and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune until it was sold in 2009, died Tuesday after crashing his Aston Martin near his home in La Jolla. Copley, 60, was found slumped in the front seat of his...... -
British publisher drops Lawrence Wright's new Scientology book
British publisher Transworld has canceled its plans to publish "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright. The book will be published in the U.S. by Knopf on Jan. 17. The reason...
Tags: Tom Cruise, Belief and Faith, Scientology, Entertainment Events, United Kingdom
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'Going Clear' takes on Scientology's celebrity fixation
Who'd have thought a history of a religion would offer so many guilty pleasures? Lawrence Wright's enthralling account of Scientology's rise, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," brims with celebrity scandal. To anyone who gets...
Tags: Bob Hope, Separation of Church and State, Tom Cruise, Scientology, Dentistry and Dental Health
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Side of fast-food fries, hold the healthcare
Well, no one ever convincingly argued that a diet of fast food is good for your health. And now it could be unhealthy for some of the people who work there – without them having to eat so much as a bite of their products. In anticipation of...
Tags: Dave Thomas, Food Industry, Walmart, Aspirin (drug), Labor Legislation
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Richard Ben Cramer dies at 62; Pulitzer-winning journalist
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose narrative nonfiction spanned presidential politics and the game of baseball, has died. He was 62. Cramer died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from lung cancer,...
Tags: Leukemia, Journalism, Johns Hopkins University, Lung Cancer, George H.W. Bush
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Lance Armstrong picks wrong way to come clean after playing dirty
The Tour de Fraud, Lance Armstrong version, continues. Tighten your helmet chinstraps and grab your handlebars. Armstrong apparently has 'fessed up. To Oprah. Please, just spare us. Was Dr. Phil booked? PHOTOS: Lance Armstrong through the...
Tags: Television, Tom Cruise, The Washington Post, Cycling, Tour de France
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Rajiv Joseph on his Black List screenplay 'Draft Day'
Rajiv Joseph is currently making quite an impression in Hollywood with his screenplay "Draft Day," written with Scott Rothman. The football comedy is ranked No. 1 on this year's Black List, the movie industry's informal ranking of the most popular...
Tags: National Football League, Miami Dolphins, Ivan Reitman, Cleveland Browns, Entertainment Events
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Michael Chabon looks back on 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") reflected on 2012's cultural highlights and currents in a conversation from his home in Berkeley. What were your favorite books this year? I really loved my...
Tags: Jake Gyllenhaal, Television, Literature, Satellite and Cable Service, Wes Anderson
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Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...
Tags: Journalism, Philosophy, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Frank Lloyd Wright, Newspaper and Magazine
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Music Industry, Concerts, Sweden, Berlin (Germany), Mark Swed
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Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday' is as ambitious as it sounds
-------------------- The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond Viking: 500 pp., $36 -------------------- A number of years ago, I found myself at a dinner party with Jared Diamond, the UCLA geography...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Culture, Entertainment Events, Guinea, Cultural Development
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Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut with Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is one lucky guy. Maura Tierney -- a.k.a. Dr. Abby Lockhart from NBC’s "ER" -- will make her Broadway debut this spring in Nora Ephron’s final play, "Lucky Guy." Tierney will play the wife of Hanks, who will star in the drama about...
Tags: The Good Wife (tv program), Michael Gaston, Breast Cancer, Nora Ephron, Christopher McDonald
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