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Review: 'Ain't in It for My Health' a fitting tribute to the late Levon Helm
Loose and ragtag, stirring and poignant, the documentary "Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm" proves a fitting tribute to its late star, perhaps best known as the singer-drummer of the influential late-1960s and '70s folk-rock group the...
Tags: Throat Cancer, Music, Movies, Radiation Therapy, Music Industry
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Film review: 'Deceptive Practice' weaves its own kind of magic
Regard the hands of Ricky Jay. Watch them making cards do things cards never have done before, things cards didn't even know they could do. And for this master of manipulation, cards are just the beginning. Seeing is definitely not believing in the...
Tags: Coney Island, Entertainment, Dinah Shore, Ricky Jay
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Could a move to New York revitalize 'The Tonight Show'?
If the rumors are true and “The Tonight Show” is set to return to its ancestral home at 30 Rockefeller Plaza with Jimmy Fallon as host, the move would be a boon for New York City – and maybe even the aging late-night genre itself. A...
Tags: 30 Rock (tv program), Johnny Carson, Entertainment, Sid Caesar, Jay Leno
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Change of coasts for 'Tonight' could mean a big shift
For more than 40 years, a studio at the corner of Olive and Alameda avenues in Burbank has been churning out a show that keeps viewers up late. But with NBC's "Tonight Show" poised to migrate back to New York, Southern California is in danger of losing...
Tags: 30 Rock (tv program), Paul Krekorian, Television, Johnny Carson, Entertainment
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Review: A high-voltage 'End of the Rainbow'
Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time. The central prop of the bio-musical now playing at...
Tags: Theater, Louis B. Mayer, Music, Arts and Culture, Judy Garland
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'Jersey Boys' producers win appeal over use of Ed Sullivan clip
L.A. NOWA federal appeals court ruled Monday that the makers of the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” did not violate copyright law by using a short clip from "The Ed Sullivan Show" in the Tony-winning show. A three-judge panel of the U.S....... -
Gripping 'Cowsills Story' documentary coming to Showtime
The new documentary “Family Band: The Cowsills Story,” premiering tonight on Showtime, opens with a compelling scene showing musician Bob Cowsill setting up single-handed for another thankless gig in the corner of a restaurant-bar of an Indian...
Tags: Music, The Monkees (music group), Television, Johnny Carson, Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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Penn Jillette speaks his mind. Again
Penn Jillette isn't one to shy from controversy. In his new book, "Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday," the highly opinionated, talkative half of the long-running magic duo Penn & Teller takes on atheism, racism and the plight of the underclass. But...
Tags: Gary Busey, Christopher Hitchens, Television, Steve Jobs, Entertainment
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Beatlemania hits North Hollywood's Laemmle theater
Robert Zemeckis' feature directorial debut, a sing-a-long and a celebration of John Lennon are among the highlights of Beatles Fest this weekend at the Laemmle Noho 7 theater in North Hollywood. The mini-film festival is part of a city-wide...
Tags: Theater, Music, Arts and Culture, Julie Taymor, Movies
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Phyllis Diller dies at 95; outlandish comedian
She was a self-described "cartoon," a zany housewife-turned-comedian with an electrified hairdo who broke into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy in the 1950s with an outlandish wardrobe and a barrage of self-deprecating jokes punctuated by her...
Tags: Ellen DeGeneres, Stand-up Comedy, Television, Bob Hope, American Red Cross
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PASSINGS: Edwin Q. White, Bill Dees
Edwin Q. White Saigon bureau chief for AP during Vietnam War Edwin Q. White, 90, who as Associated Press bureau chief in Saigon during the 1960s was part of a fabled crew of journalists who covered the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Honolulu, the...
Tags: Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music, The Associated Press, NPR
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Bernard Lansky dies at 85; Memphis clothier to Elvis Presley
Bernard Lansky, the Memphis retailer who helped a young Elvis Presley establish his signature clothing style of pegged pants, two-toned shoes and other flashy duds in the 1950s, has died. He was 85. Julie Lansky, the clothier's granddaughter, said he...
Tags: Music, Elvis Presley, Music Industry, Alzheimer's Disease, Entertainment
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