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Wynton Marsalis on jazz, and jazz criticism
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Kitty Doner’s Mystery Admirer
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo July 19, 1925: âLady Be Goodâ at the Mason. Several people asked whether this fellow with Kitty Doner in âLady Be Goodâ might be Bing Crosby. I had the same question, so I thought Iâd dig into it a bit. âLady Be... -
From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'
Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Dave Brubeck, Ansel Adams, Music Theater, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Out on Home Video: 'Hugo' released
limiro@juno.comHUGO (2011) * * * (B) Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths, Jude...Tags: DVDs, Television Industry, Gary Fleder, James Stewart, O.J. Simpson
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PBS treats Baltimore's Cab Calloway as an American Master
It's not often in judging the biography of a great artist that you can just pick up the phone and call one of the people who knew him best — and remains a principal keeper of the historical flame.
But that is exactly the case with Cab Calloway, the...Tags: Savion Glover, Cab Calloway, Frederick Douglass, John Belushi, Alvin Ailey
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Book Review: 'Warning Shadows' by Gary Giddins
Warning Shadows
Home Alone With Classic Cinema
Gary Giddins
W.W. Norton: 416 pp., $18.95
Gary Giddins is well known for his writing about music — he was a Village Voice jazz columnist for three decades, and his books, among them the biography...Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Samuel Fuller, Joan Crawford, Duke Ellington, DVDs
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'Paul Robeson: A Biography' by Martin Bauml Duberman
The life of a black celebrity is perilous enough, but the black celebrity who becomes a spokesperson is asking for pure hell. Not only has the outspokenness of those regarded as radicals gotten them into trouble, but as Gary Giddins' recent book "Satchmo"...Tags: Francis Lewis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Human Rights, White House, Parties and Movements
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Making sense of Hollywood -- in print
Special to The TimesApril 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...Tags: Sidney Poitier, Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, Mae West, History
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PASSINGS
Lee Solters Publicist for Broadway, Hollywood Lee Solters, 89, a longtime publicist who worked with some of the biggest names of Broadway and Hollywood, died Monday of natural causes at his home in West Hollywood, according to Jerry Digney, his...Tags: Princeton University, Colleges and Universities, Celebrities and Health Issues, Evanston, Columbia University
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