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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...
Tags: California State University, Northridge, NASA, Electronics, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Science and Technology
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Hot Property: Actress Debra Messing hoping for an off-Broadway hit
Debra Messing, who stars on "Smash" as Broadway lyricist Julia Houston, has listed her showstopper in Bel-Air for $11.995 million. The traditional-style house, designed by architect Paul R. Williams and built in 1937, features bay windows, updated...
Tags: Smash (tv program), Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Don Knotts, Academy Awards, Renee Zellweger
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California Escape: Palm Springs uncovered
It's understandable why, as wintry weather sets in elsewhere, travelers flock to Palm Springs for warmth and sunshine. Heavy clothes are quickly replaced by T-shirts and shorts — or, at some resorts, no clothes at all. Palm Springs is a hot spot not...
Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Dining and Drinking, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Lucille Ball, Entertainment, Obituaries, Newspaper and Magazine, Movies
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'Liz & Dick' producer talks risks of working with Lindsay Lohan
Larry A. Thompson has long been fascinated with celebrity couples who "fly so close to the sun." Sonny and Cher, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are duos featured in several television movies developed by the veteran...
Tags: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Twin Peaks (tv program), Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Lucille Ball
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William Asher dies at 90; 'I Love Lucy,' 'Bewitched' director
As the director of more than 100 episodes of the enduringly classic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," William Asher considered the first episode he directed to be one of his most memorable: Lucy and Ethel working in a chocolate factory.
But for Asher, who died...Tags: Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Bewitched (tv program), World War II (1939-1945), I Love Lucy (tv program), Comedy (genre)
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Around Town: Marilyn, Lucy and Kristy McNichol hit the big screen
24 FramesThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting a two-day retrospective, "Grand Designs: Mid-Century Life in the Movie," at the Leo S. Bing Theater, in conjunction with the closing weekend of the exhibition, "California Design 1930-1965: Living in a... -
Lucille Ball museum: Where you can love Lucy all over again
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEven though she was born 100 years ago next month and her mega-hit TV show premiered 60 years ago this October, there remains a single truth about Lucille Ball: We still love Lucy. "I Love Lucy" is in black and white, and the fashions are outdated, but...Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Politics, I Love Lucy (tv program), Career and Workplace, Comedy (genre)
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Movies: Dapper gents rule in 'J. Edgar,' 'The Artist' and other films
Los Angeles TimesClothes and carefully cultivated facial hair are helping to make the man — and the movie — in a big way at the multiplex this season. Consider the tuxedo-wearing, thinly mustachioed men of 1920s' Hollywood in "The Artist"; the dapper denizens...Tags: Sacha Baron Cohen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Alec Guinness
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Southern California Close-Ups: San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on April 24, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south...Tags: Shrek (fictional character), NoHo, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Lucille Ball, Entertainment
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Culture(d)—May 2012
LA Times MagazineIn the realm of arts + ideas: Cleopatra reigns supreme, La Cienega spiffs up, Carroll Dunham gets his due... -
Dog-friendly Del Mar a relaxing getaway outside of race season
If you know anything at all about Del Mar, it's that the seaside town north of San Diego is the place to play the ponies. The horses aren't the only thoroughbreds in the track's history; you'll hear it connected to such names as Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields,...
Tags: Salads, W.C. Fields, Jimmy Durante, Restaurants, Lucille Ball
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