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Angelo Dundee dies at 90; corner man for Ali, Leonard
Angelo Dundee, who trained the two most celebrated fighters of his era, Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, and 15 world champions in all in a Hall of Fame career that began in 1952, has died. He was 90.
Dundee died Wednesday at a Clearwater, Fla.,...Tags: Henry Cooper, World War II (1939-1945), Muhammad Ali, Human Interest, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Summer festivals in the Midwest
Bicycles and balloons, football and films, garlic and golf — disparate things, for sure. But they're all at the heart of festivals and other special events that promise to make this summer interesting in the Midwest.
Here's a sampling of what's...Tags: Dance, Jack Nicklaus, Garlic, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver. 1919: Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline, at one cent per gallon. 1950: "Your Show of Shows," starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, debuted on NBC-TV. 1964:...Tags: Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Muhammad Ali, Today (tv program)
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Jonathan Togo doesn't follow a script when it comes to home design
Jonathan Togo, the 33-year-old actor who returns to "CSI: Miami" as investigator Ryan Wolfe when the new season premieres Oct. 3, is bemused by the celebrity real estate racket. Instead of buying into the hype that he needs more house, more furnishings...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Rose Bowl Game, CSI: Miami (tv program), Muhammad Ali, Entertainment
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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: Dance, Ansel Adams, Alec Baldwin, Beverly D'Angelo, Academy Awards
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Les Keiter dies at 89; sportscaster known for radio re-creations of games
Times Staff And Wire ReportsLes Keiter, a longtime sportscaster who was known for his radio re-creations of San Francisco Giants games for New York listeners in the first few years after the baseball team moved to California, died Tuesday at Castle Medical Center near Honolulu. He...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Television Industry, Muhammad Ali, Floyd Patterson, San Francisco Giants
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Only race left for Phelps is against other sports legends
Sun reporterMichael Phelps has left us only with questions of history. He is master of his present. No one can argue otherwise now that he has won eight gold medals and swum better than any other human ever has at the Beijing Olympics. Competitors rarely bother to...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Joe Montana, Michael Phelps, NPR, Steffi Graf
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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Reviews, Truman Capote, George W. Bush, Floyd Patterson, Genres
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Floats, and Stings, Like a Butterfly
TIMES FILM CRITIC"Ali" opens with a shot of Will Smith as a bundled-up 22-year-old Cassius Clay doing late-night roadwork in preparation for his 1964 heavyweight title fight with Sonny Liston. It's an arresting visual, of a lonely sphinx in sweats, and it tells you a...Tags: Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Mann, Academy Awards, Jeffrey Wright
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'Ali'
Courant Film CriticMichael Mann opens ``Ali" with an invigorating burst of music and images, bouncing through the early years of Cassius Clay, as a surrogate Sam Cooke rocks out ``(Don't Fight It) Feel It" and Will Smith rockets through a fusillade on a speed bag. With...Tags: Will Smith, Nona Gaye, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Mann, Jada Pinkett Smith
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They could be heroes
Hollywood traffics in heroes, and this season is no different, but current events remind us that the qualifications for heroism on the big screen are, as ever, subject to the whims of history, politics and popular culture. It was bad enough when Kevin...Tags: Michael Mann, James Stewart, Drama (genre), Academy Awards, Nation of Islam
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