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Steady hands, determination saved Reginald Denny as L.A. burned
Madison Richardson had no clue that Los Angeles was burning. On April 29, 1992, the head and neck surgeon was touring the Griffith Park Equestrian Center with polo-playing friends from India. A colleague paged him. Could Richardson rush to Daniel Freeman...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Plastic Surgeons, Reginald Denny, Health and Medical Professionals
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How groovy will 'Mad Men' get? '60s experts make predictions
Show TrackerFor four seasons now, “Mad Men” has pulled off a remarkably adroit feat: telling a story about the 1960s while resisting most, if not quite all, the pop-culture clichés associated with this much mythologized decade. In its long-awaited fifth... -
Black History Month: A celebration with mixed feelings on PBS
Show TrackerPBS' "Independent Lens" looks at Black History Month with documentaries that take a varied -- and critical -- view of the observance.... -
Fall Sneaks list
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All's Faire in Love
A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...Tags: Yvonne Strahovski, Andrew Niccol, Michael York, Rooney Mara, Eduardo Noriega
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Book review: 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family' by Condoleezza Rice
Los Angeles TimesAs national security advisor and then secretary of State to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice never displayed any doubt or admitted any errors in the White House decisions that led to war in Iraq. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD:...Tags: Republican Party, School Examinations, University of Notre Dame, Jimmy Carter, Defense
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'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 6, 2008 The story was already written: Vividly rendered on those young faces -- excited, angry, naive, fearful, idealistic. But it was only the first leg of their journey. That's what first struck Eric Etheridge when he first laid eyes on a trove of...Tags: Crimes, Civil Rights, Heroism, Assault, Photography
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Miriam Makeba dies at 76; South African singer spent 31 years in exile
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who for more than half a century brought the intricate rhythms of her native land to millions of listeners around the world and whose role as a spokeswoman against apartheid subjected her to 31 years of exile,...Tags: Paul Simon, Africa, United Nations, Sarah Vaughan, Contracts
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Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project via Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
![Early Saturday evening, Providence, R.I.-based artist <b>Mark Tribe </b>orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War. On the South Lawn of Exposition Park, midway between the Natural History Museum and the Coliseum, a call went out for "organized and disciplined nonviolent action," aimed squarely at those "seeking [their] manhood in affluence and war."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/41215995-24165649.jpg)
Times Art CriticEarly Saturday evening, Providence, R.I.-based artist Mark Tribe orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War. On the South Lawn of Exposition Park, midway between the Natural History Museum...Tags: United Nations, Celebrities, Photography, Perrine, Andy Warhol
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Port Huron Project videos on view at LACE
Culture MonsterIn July 2008, artist Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project -- a multi-year effort involving staged re-creations of historic protest speeches of the Vietnam era at their original locations -- came to Los Angeles with a re-enactment of farm labor leader...... -
Where books reign and readers celebrate... in Westwood
L.A. NOWMystery writers can be a dark lot. "When I was growing up, I was always interested in those books, ‘Women Who Kill,' " Megan Abbott, author of "Bury Me Deep," intoned as her audience laughed. She chuckled. "Strange kid." Across...... -
Tommy Jacquette dies at 65; South L.A. activist helped found the Watts Summer Festival
Tommy Jacquette, who channeled a simmering rage to become one of South L.A.'s most important social activists, died this week of complications from cancer, his daughter said. He was 65.
Jacquette died Monday at his home in Watts, not far from where the...Tags: Janice Hahn, Rebellions, Maxine Waters, Movies, Social Issues
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PASSINGS
Virginia Carroll Character actress and leading lady Virginia Carroll, 95, a movie character actress and B-western leading lady who appeared opposite cowboy stars such as Don "Red" Barry and Tex Ritter, died of natural causes July 23 in a Santa Barbara...Tags: India, Columbia University, Nashville, Illnesses, Richard Nixon
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