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Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'
Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Johnnie Ray, Jimmy Boyd, Grammy Awards, Career and Workplace
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Farley Granger dies at 85; handsome leading man best known for roles in Hitchcock films
Farley Granger, a handsome young leading man during Hollywood's post-World War II era who was best known for his starring roles in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers "Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," has died. He was 85.
Granger died of natural...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, World War II (1939-1945), Career and Workplace, Theater, Samuel Goldwyn
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Voices – Roderick Mann
The Daily MirrorHere are two of the hundreds of profiles done for The Times by Roderick Mann, who died Friday at the age of 87. His first byline in The Times was a 1975 interview with Ava Gardner (d.1990), in London. In a 1976 interview with John Wayne (d. 1979) on the... -
Book review: 'Frank: The Voice' by James Kaplan
Los Angeles TimesSome years ago, I shared a barber with the late Mel Tormé. It was a small, low-key shop where the talk was usually sports and the music on the radio was always jazz or vocals from the American Songbook. One morning, Tormé and I found ourselves pausing...Tags: John McEnroe, The Godfather (movie), Poetry, Popular Music (genre), Nelson Riddle
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James Bacon dies at 96; longtime syndicated Hollywood columnist
James Bacon, the longtime syndicated Hollywood columnist and reporter whose career covering the film capital began in the late 1940s with the Associated Press, has died. He was 96.
Bacon, whose long career also included small roles in movies such as...Tags: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fiction, Errol Flynn, John F. Kennedy
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Army Archerd: Hollywood's last inside man
The Big PictureFor someone like me who makes a living writing about Hollywood, getting a friendly phone call from Army Archerd was the equivalent of a young actor getting a "way to go" pat on the back from Jack Nicholson. Army, who...... -
Admit it. Carey Mulligan reminds you of Audrey Hepburn.
Gold DerbyWhen discussing this weekend's opening of "An Education" with my Envelope colleague Paul Sheehan, he said something worth repeating ??? and illustrating pictorially. "Admit it!" he roared. "What's the first thing you thought of when you heard about this... -
'Double Indemnity' house returns to '40s glamour
Mae Brunken wanted a home with a past. And in a plot with an only-in- Hollywood ending, the interior designer and set decorator found her period piece -- one with a film noir pedigree. Perched high in the hills of Hollywood, her 1927 Spanish Colonial...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Personal Service, Fred MacMurray, Film Festivals
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Where Theres Smoke...
Ed Kolpin was a tough act to follow. He lived to 97, smoked almost every day, once skinny-dipped in the reflecting pool at the Taj Mahal and sipped Cuban rum with Errol Flynn. But for Jeanette Kolpin, his cherubic, mild-mannered daughter-in-law, filling...Tags: George Burns, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen King, Public Employees, Errol Flynn
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UCLA Archive unearths gems in 'Unburied Treasures'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive is no small place. The Library of Congress aside, it's the biggest collection in the country, with film holdings alone numbering a staggering 85,000 titles. Wouldn't you like to take a peek at the rarities hidden in...Tags: Veronica Lake, Celebrities, George Stevens Jr., Theater, Film Festivals
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Bewitched, Bothered, Bacalld
Its 1997 and my first year as a producer on the Golden Globes. Im joining a mission impossible team of great professionals led by the legendary Dick Clark. They all have an easy, familiar way with the many superstars who come in for rehearsal. I am...Tags: Television, Tom Cruise, Golden Globe Awards, John Travolta, Celebrities
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'The House I Lived In'
Times Staff WriterThe man showing you around the house, and he's perfectly nice but you wish he'd just leave. You've come here to commune with the owner of the house and it's a communion for two—three's a crowd. You've got just 24 hours, a mere 1,440 minutes, and...Tags: Steaks, Celebrities, Rentals, Starbucks Corp., Mary J. Blige
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