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'Necessary Roughness' plays fast and loose with therapy
'Necessary Roughness'
10 p.m. June 29, USA Network
Episode: "Pilot"
The premise
Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) is a Long Island psychotherapist who specializes in behavioral management, hypnotherapy, smoking cessation and weight loss programs....Tags: USA Network (tv network), File Sharing, Philosophy, Health and Medical Professionals, Callie Thorne
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Edie Wasserman dies at 95; Hollywood philanthropist and wife of studio chief
Edie Wasserman, who was the widow of Hollywood powerhouse Lew Wasserman and who was known as a tireless benefactor for charitable causes, especially the Motion Picture and Television Fund, has died. She was 95.
Wasserman died Thursday in Beverly Hills of...Tags: Arts, Roddy McDowall, Movies, Johnny Carson, Guy Lombardo
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Book review: 'Turn of Mind' by Alice LaPlante
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTurn of Mind A Novel Alice LaPlante Atlantic Monthly Press: 308 pp., $24 Alzheimer's disease doesn't seem like a great subject for a page-turner. Affecting 10% of us over 65 and 50% older than 85, it inspires dread in the culture. And yet a page-...Tags: The Washington Post, Orthopedic Surgery, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, David Letterman
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Rutten: The threat of Nancy Grace
The sensational result in the O.J. Simpson murder case notwithstanding, it's an article of faith among criminal defense attorneys that sequestered jurors are more prone to convict than those who go home when the trial recesses for the day.
That's why...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Lawyers, Ethics, Media Industry
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Tom Garvin dies at 67; versatile jazz pianist, composer
Tom Garvin, a jazz pianist and composer-arranger who was best known as an exceptional accompanist, died July 31 at an assisted living facility in Encino. He was 67.
The cause was cancer, which diagnosed three years ago, said Tom Mitchell, a close friend....Tags: Human Interest, Vocal Music (genre), Fine Arts, John Gilbert, Arts
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Book Review: 'Ten Thousand Saints' by Eleanor Henderson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTen Thousand Saints A Novel Eleanor Henderson Ecco: 400 pp., $26.99 "Ten Thousand Saints" is a whirling dervish of a first novel — a planet, a universe, a trip. As wild as that may sound, wonder of wonders, the book is also carefully and...Tags: Human Interest, Heart Failure, Middlebury, Bob Dylan, New Year's Day
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PASSINGS: Michael Cacoyannis, Linda Christian
Michael Cacoyannis
Filmmaker directed 'Zorba the Greek'
Michael Cacoyannis, 89, the Cyprus-born filmmaker and screenwriter who directed the 1964 film classic "Zorba the Greek," starring Anthony Quinn, died Monday at an Athens hospital of complications...Tags: Candice Bergen, Vanessa Redgrave, Movies, Athens (Greece), Lila Kedrova
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PASSINGS: Joe Lee Wilson, Helen Beverley, Martin Weinberger, Jolene Combs
Joe Lee Wilson, 75, a jazz vocalist who performed with saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Archie Shepp and trumpeters Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard and hosted a thriving loft club in New York City in the 1970s, died July 17 at his home in Brighton, England,...Tags: Human Interest, Vocal Music (genre), Movies, Lee J. Cobb, Celebrities
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Jerry Ragovoy dies at 80; songwriter had hits with Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin
Soul songwriter Jerry Ragovoy wrote one of his more famous tunes – "Time Is On My Side," which turned into a massive hit for the Rolling Stones — under the pseudonym of Norman Meade.
He was saving his own name for the works he planned to...Tags: Human Interest, Stroke, Heart (music group), Music Theater, Heart Attack
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PASSINGS: Leo Kirch, Roland Petit, Cal Montney, Lee Vines, Googie Withers, Frank Billerbeck
Leo Kirch
German media mogul
Leo Kirch, 84, who turned his one-man film distribution company into Germany's second-biggest media business before losing control of it after a gamble on pay television, died Thursday in Munich. His family did not give...Tags: Billy Wilder, Economy, Business and Finance, Rudolf Nureyev, Defense, Spike Lee
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Polly Platt dies at 72; Oscar-nominated art director
Polly Platt, the Oscar-nominated production designer of such films as "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment" and producer of "Broadcast News" and "Say Anything," has died. She was 72.
Platt died Wednesday of Lou Gehrig's disease at her home in...Tags: Roger Corman, Arts, Movies, Wes Anderson, Cybill Shepherd
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Book review: 'Nicholas Ray' by Patrick McGilligan
Special to the Los Angeles TimesNicholas Ray faced a roomful of film students. They had come to learn from the director who'd made James Dean an icon in "Rebel Without a Cause" and a gunslinger of Joan Crawford in the distaff western "Johnny Guitar." Ray began a mock exercise in filming...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Movies, Wesleyan University, Charlton Heston, John Houseman
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