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Audra McDonald slips into L.A. to sing and stump for PBS
Cabaret fanatics – and you know who you are – invariably suffer a persistent worry: What if there is some amazing live gig out there I don’t know about? Well, Monday night your worst nightmare came and went -- unless you were one of...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Joel Grey, Culture, Entertainment, Audra McDonald
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Classic Hollywood: The movies at work
As far back as Louis Lumière's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.¶There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...
Tags: Norma Rae (movie), James Stewart, The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Romance (genre), Margaret Sullavan
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Marie Osborne Yeats dies at 99; as Baby Marie Osborne she starred in early silent movies
Marie Osborne Yeats, a top child star during the early silent-movie era who was billed as Baby Marie Osborne in films such as "Little Mary Sunshine," has died. She was 99.
Yeats, who had a later career as a movie studio costume supervisor, died Nov. 11...Tags: Career and Workplace, The Godfather (movie), Amusement (movie), Ginger Rogers, Movies
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Drum pioneer snares a big chunk of the market
The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more than 50 years.
Background: Remo Belli, 82, started drumming at age 12, while growing up in the South Bend-...Tags: South Bend (St. Joseph, Indiana), World War II (1939-1945), Health, Music Industry, DuPont Co.
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Mystery Photo
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields in a photo stamped July 8, 1923. Their lives were made into the 1952 film âSomebody Loves Meâ with Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker. Aug. 17, 1959: Benny Fields dies at the... -
Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: Cinema Industry, Lee Hazlewood, Career and Workplace, Wrestling, Anna Nicole Smith
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Debbie Reynolds sings, jokes, does impressions -- and shows a little leg
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMary Frances Reynolds is back in the old neighborhood. You know her as Debbie Reynolds. That's the name given to her when, as a 16-year-old, she was first under studio contract. Talent scouts had spotted her in the Miss Burbank beauty contest, which she'...Tags: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly
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Irving Brecher dies at 94; Comedy writer got an Oscar nod for 'Meet Me in St. Louis'
Irving Brecher, a comedy writer whose career in radio, television and the movies included writing two Marx Brothers comedies, co-writing the Judy Garland musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" and creating the radio and TV series "The Life of Riley," has died. He...Tags: MGM Inc., Radio, Film Festivals, Movies, Wicked (musical)
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Alan W. Livingston dies at 91; former president of Capitol Records
Alan W. Livingston, an entertainment industry veteran whose career included creating the character of Bozo the Clown for popular children's read-along record albums in the 1940s and signing the Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, World War II (1939-1945), England, Colleges and Universities, London (England)
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