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Larry Sloan dies at 89; co-founder of 'Mad Libs' publisher
Nonsense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blueprints for silliness. The series of word-game books, "Mad Libs," became absurdly popular and marked its 50th...
Tags: Book, Religion and Belief, The Washington Post, U.S. Army, Judaism
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Al Gordon dies at 89; Emmy-winning comedy writer for Jack Benny
Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon died Wednesday of age-related causes at Cedars-...
Tags: The Smothers Brothers, World War II (1939-1945), Eddie Cantor, Radio, Tony Orlando
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PASSINGS: Julia Sampson Hayward, James Rizzi, Bob O'Rourke
Julia Sampson Hayward
Champion tennis player in 1950s
Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, a champion tennis player who won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the 1953 Australian Open, died Tuesday at her home in Newport Beach of complications from a...Tags: French Open, Colleges and Universities, World War II (1939-1945), Respiratory Disease, Korean War (1950-1953)
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PASSINGS: Harry Kullijian, Joe Bodolai
Harry Kullijian
Husband of Carol Channing
Harry Kullijian, a junior high school classmate of Carol Channing who married the entertainer 70 years later, died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage after suffering an aneurysm Monday, the night...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Obituaries, Television, Los Angeles Hotels, Korean War (1950-1953)
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Monster Mash: Hugh Jackman, 'Les Miz'; George Washington painting
Culture MonsterHugh Jackman said filming of the movie musical "Les Miserables" is set to begin in March, with rehearsals at the end of January. A new painting depicting George Washington's crossing of the Delaware has been unveiled at the New York Historical Society... -
Ray Aghayan dies at 83; award-winning costume designer
Ray Aghayan, an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated costume designer whose credits included more than a dozen Oscar shows and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, has died. He was 83.
Aghayan, the...Tags: Julie Andrews, Academy Awards, Summer Olympics, Hedda Hopper, Barbra Streisand
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Gay Days celebration at Disneyland Resort to draw 30,000
L.A. NOWOnce an underground gathering that was regularly protested by religious groups and conservative politicians, the annual Gay Days at the Disneyland Resort marks its 14th anniversary this weekend and is expected to draw more than 30,000 people to the... -
North Korea parties likes it's 1934
Top of the TicketKim Jong Il's country is ordered to have a grand time marking the 65th anniversary of the imposition of rule by his father's Worker's Party.... -
Countdown to the last 'Oprah Winfrey Show': Oprah's circus of the stars
Show TrackerCountdown to Oprah's last episode: Tom Hanks, Madonna, Beyonce and other celebrities come to say goodbye to Oprah... -
Leading SoCal stage actors win a week in Wisconsin with Olympia Dukakis
Culture MonsterAn actor is never too good or too experienced to benefit from a week away at theater camp. Thatâs the premise behind the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, inaugurated in 2009 in the Wisconsin woods, where chosen actors get to spend a...... -
Larry King as you've never seen him -- suspenderless
Top of the TicketLarry King does his last show on CNN after more than a century of interviewing politicians back to Lincoln.... -
Joseph Stein dies at 98; adapted Yiddish short story into 'Fiddler on the Roof'
Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died. He was 98.
His wife, Elisa Stein, said he died at Mount...Tags: Sammy Davis Jr., Mount Sinai, Colleges and Universities, Jerome Robbins, Broadway Theater
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