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Nancy Freedman dies at 90; feminist had long and wide-ranging literary career
Nancy Freedman, a novelist whose wide-ranging books include the bestselling "Mrs. Mike," co-written with her husband, has died. She was 90.
Freedman died Aug. 10 of temporal arteritis, an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the arterial vascular system,...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists, Arts and Culture
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Wednesday's TV Highlights: Veronica celebrates a bit too much on 'Mercy'
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of March 14 - 20 in PDF format This week's TV Movies DISTURBED: After a St. Patrick's Day binge, Veronica (Taylor Schilling) considers seeing a therapist in a new episode of...... -
Ricardo Montalban dies at 88; 'Fantasy Island' actor
Ricardo Montalban, the suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best known for his role as Mr. Roarke on TV's "Fantasy Island," has died. He was 88.
Montalban died Wednesday morning at his Los...Tags: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (movie), Christianity, Edward James Olmos, Debbie Reynolds, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Plenty of talent on tap in Infinity Theatre's 'Dames at Sea'
Infinity Theatre's second show of the summer season, the tap-happy, Navy-crazy "Dames at Sea," opened last weekend to the enthusiastic applause of near-capacity audiences. Infinity's co-producing artistic directors Anna and Alan Ostroff have a winning...
Tags: Stevensville, Les Miserables (musical), Entertainment Events, Music, Bernadette Peters
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Patricia Modell, actress and philanthropist, dies at 80
Patricia Modell, a successful TV and film actress in the 1950s and '60s who became a well-known philanthropist in Baltimore with her husband, former Ravens owner Arthur Modell, died Wednesday at the age of 80.
Mrs. Modell was admitted two weeks ago to...Tags: Art Modell, Opera (genre), Charity, Walters Art Museum, Lyric Opera of Baltimore
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NASA space shuttle has roots at Langley
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, NASA was already planning what would become the space shuttle program.
President Richard Nixon in early 1969 formed the Space Task Group, whose job was to chart the nation’s future in space.
One of the...Tags: Vehicles, Technology, Space Programs, NASA, Long Island
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Peter Falk, TV’s ‘Columbo,’ is dead
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe character was a favorite because he never changed. He tripped up the bad guys and gals with crafty brilliance. The actor said he never wanted to retire the character. "I think the older he gets, the funnier he can be," Falk said. "He's not real any... -
Historic exhibit on blacks in the Panhandle being resurrected
richardb@herald-mail.comExcerpts from an interview under Anna Robert Roberson’s photo, one of 18 in an upcoming historic exhibit on blacks in the Eastern Panhandle, tell of her aunt who was a house slave in Shepherdstown, W.Va. Roberson’s story is part of a...Tags: Government, Politics, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Slavery
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Can charter schools do with dose of bureaucracy?
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelUp at the Florida Center for Reinventing the Wheel, education theorists apparently have come to a startling conclusion: Perhaps the framework of bureaucracy is not so bad after all when it comes to charter schools. I was talking with Florida Education... -
Gloria Stuart, 'Titanic' actress, dies at 100
Staff reporterGloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film — has...Tags: Peter O'Toole, Kate Winslet, Dining and Drinking, James Whale, The Old Dark House (movie)
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Sex Crimes, Keri Russell, Billie Burke, The Monkees (music group), Nicolas Cage
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Lillian Hellman, Celebrities, John Frankenheimer
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