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Celeste Holm, 95, was an active arts advocate
Celeste Holm, who died Sunday at 95, had a lengthy career on stage and screen. But one of the actress' foremost passions was situated far from the entertainment industry. Holm was an arts advocate for many years and served as a chairwoman for Arts...
Tags: All About Eve (movie), Celeste Holm, Movies, Drama (genre), Entertainment
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'Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley, 74, got his start in theater
Behind many notable television careers is a theater background, and Sherman Hemsley, who died this week at 74, was no exception. The star of the long-running CBS sitcom "The Jeffersons," Hemsley got his start on the stage, including studying at the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Sherman Hemsley, Chad Everett, Broadway Theater, Television Industry
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LeRoy Neiman dies at 91; artist depicted sports in bold strokes
LeRoy Neiman, a wildly successful American artist who was famous for his colorful portraits of athletes in motion and who became an artistic fixture at such major sporting events as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, has died. He was 91.
Neiman, who was...Tags: Central Park, Horse and Harness Racing, World War II (1939-1945), Babe Ruth, College Sports
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Critic's Notebook: LeRoy Neiman made art safe for Playboy-reading heterosexuals
Without Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine and its philosophy of unfettered heterosexual hedonism through stimulation of all the senses, there would have been no LeRoy Neiman. Usually mischaracterized as simply a sports artist, he was actually much more...
Tags: Open-Wheel Racing, Arts, Artists, Periodicals, Arts and Culture
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Hot tips on California's premier racetracks
California is home to more racetracks than any other state, with four dominant tracks and a dozen lesser venues, such as state fairs, where thoroughbreds line up shoulder to shoulder. The majors tend to be tributes to Old California. Each of the Big...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Los Angeles International Airport, Personal Service, Entertainment Events, Chicago Hotels
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Neil Leifer knows all the angles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2008 NEW YORK -- For a guy who's a regular at Elaine's and has a standing reservation at Rao's and his own gallery in Vegas and a new book out selling for $400, and now a short doc on Oscar's short list, Neil Leifer still acts like he has...Tags: Film Festivals, Baseball, Movies, Gordon Parks, New York Giants
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Zombies in their midst
Times Staff WriterWho needs Halloween? Just in time for the creepiest holiday — uh, Presidents Day — comes the extra creepy but super impressive Resident Evil 4. More classically restrained horror movie than guts-in-your-face splatter-fest, RE4 pulls you...Tags: Halloween, Xbox, Death, Shaquille O'Neal, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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