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Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab
The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...
Tags: Politics, Entertainment, Museums, Long Island, Arts and Culture
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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: Entertainment, Iraq, Students, Teaching and Learning, Justice System
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Seething fury of 'Angry Little Girls' coming to your TV
Yeah, that's her, staring you down, eyes blazing, cursing under her breath. She's a piece of work with zigzag black bangs, a blood-red shirt and hands firmly planted on hips. When the guy who's in love with her inches forward, telling her, "I can't live...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Entertainment, Racism, Margaret Cho, Apple iPhone
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An interview with Stephan Pastis: Writing funny books for kids
Stephan Pastis, the former lawyer-turned-cartoonist behind the daily comic strip “Pearls before Swine,” (which runs in 650 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times) recently made his first foray into long-form chapter books with “...
Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Bob Dylan, Arts and Culture
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Jonathan Winters dies at 87; comic genius of improvisation
Comic great Jonathan Winters was struggling to make a name for himself in the early 1950s when a man at the nightclub where he was performing offered some life-changing advice. Winters had a talent for channeling the voices of celebrities like Gary...
Tags: Boris (music group), Radio, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure, Jack Paar
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Jason Bateman gives Ernest Borgnine's estate a new identity
Actor Jason Bateman and his wife, actress Amanda Anka, are dropping anchor in the Beverly Crest area with the purchase of the estate of Ernest Borgnine for $3 million. The gated country English compound sits on a half-acre knoll. The 6,148-square-foot...
Tags: Tetro (movie), Music, Celebrities, Environmental Issues, Real Estate Buyers
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Classic Hollywood: On the case of 'Roger Rabbit'
Disney's frenetic live-action/animated comedy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, earning more than $156 million. The comedy won three Academy Awards and transformed its lead, British actor Bob Hoskins, into a bona fide...
Tags: The Lion King (movie), Celebrities, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Hoskins, Animation (Movie Genre)
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If only there were an Academy Award for best stunt hand
In one episode of "Seinfeld," hapless George Costanza was hired as a stunt hand for a movie. Predictably, things went awry and poor George's hand never made a cinematic debut. In the days leading up to the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, my own hand fared...
Tags: Entertainment, George Stevens Jr., Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Movies
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Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed lists his home in Santa Barbara at $4.95 million
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has listed his mountainside retreat in Santa Barbara for $4.95 million. The 25-acre ocean-view estate, which includes a swimming pool, fruit trees and a guesthouse, was designed as a creative...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Keiji Nakazawa dies at 73; Japanese artist of comic 'Barefoot Gen'
Images of a city smoldering and a river clogged with pale, radioactive cadavers never left Keiji Nakazawa's mind. The Japanese manga, or comic-book, artist used those images and other memories of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to create...
Tags: Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945), Lung Cancer, Arts and Culture, Japan
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New Western governor sets his sights on climate change solutions
When we were classmates at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Jay Inslee was quarterback of the football team and a key player on the state champion basketball squad. I was a fledgling cartoonist and editorial writer on the student newspaper. On Wednesday...
Tags: Regional Authority, Politics, Republican Party, Theodore Roosevelt, Human Interest
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KAWS is latest artist to join Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the usual gallery of cartoon characters inflated to monstrous sizes bobbing alongside garish floats. But the parade also featured a bit of cultural subversion -- albeit of the family-friendly variety --...
Tags: Entertainment, Thanksgiving, Festive Events, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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