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Album review: New York Dolls' 'Dancing Backward in High Heels'
Pop & HissCould there be a more fitting image and cultural icon for New York’s great glam-punk band to invoke than Ginger Rogers? Borrowing the dancer’s famous line about her challenges with partner Fred Astaire for the title to their fifth studio...... -
Before Cobra Snake or the Sartorialist, there was Bill Cunningham
All The Rage“The best fashion show in the world is on the street.” That’s according to Bill Cunningham, the celebrated photographer whose On the Street columns appear every Sunday in the New York Times. And he should know. Chief chronicler of the...... -
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett: The highlights
Jacket CopyMel Brooks and Dick Cavett shared anecdotes of Old Hollywood in Beverly Hills for an audience of nearly 2,000.... -
Marie Osborne Yeats dies at 99; as Baby Marie Osborne she starred in early silent movies
Marie Osborne Yeats, a top child star during the early silent-movie era who was billed as Baby Marie Osborne in films such as "Little Mary Sunshine," has died. She was 99.
Yeats, who had a later career as a movie studio costume supervisor, died Nov. 11...Tags: Movies, The Godfather (movie), Betty Hutton, Career and Workplace, Amusement (movie)
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Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...Tags: Amelia Earhart, Boris Karloff, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Mark Twain, Wildfires
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PASSINGS: Lee Freeman, Betty Lou Keim, Menachem Porush, Thomas Michael Eggers, Judith Paige Mitchell
Lee Freeman
'60s band had No. 1 hit
Lee Freeman, 60, a member of the 1960s' band Strawberry Alarm Clock, famous for its flower-power anthem that became a No. 1 hit in 1967, died of cancer Feb. 14 at his home in the Bay Area, his brother, Doug, said in...Tags: Celebrities, Cancer, Strawberries, Judaism, Movies
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Thursday's TV Highlights: Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham gets a new show on Comedy Central
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SURROUNDED BY DUMMIES: 'The Jeff Dunham Show,' featuring the ventriloquist-comic, center, and his puppet pals, premieres at 9 p.m....... -
'Dancing With the Stars': Team effort
Show TrackerItâs the seventh week of the seventh moon of the seventh star of âDancing With the Stars,â ballroom fans, and the pressure in the Rectagon has been cranked up to 11. In addition to everyoneâs individual dances, this week also...... -
A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist
The Daily MirrorNov. 13, 1950: Ginger Rogers has friends over to watch three hours of dance excerpts from her movies with Fred Astaire.... -
'The Biggest Loser': The worst-case scenario
Show TrackerThe unthinkable happened: Father and daughter fell below the yellow line. Together. Before we get to that, the contestants faced a Texas-sized challenge â raising awareness about obesity in the Lone Star State, which lays claim to five of the...... -
PASSINGS: Nancy Stoner Sage, James R. Beniger, Bill Mullikin, J. Bruce Llewellyn
Nancy Stoner Sage 1906 San Francisco quake survivor Nancy Stoner Sage, 105, one of the few remaining survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, died Thursday, three days before the 104th anniversary of the temblor. She died of natural causes at a...Tags: Celebrities, Sociology, Television Stations, University of Maryland, College Park, Social Sciences
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Stars show moxie, grace on skates in movies
Roller skating movies seemed like a passing fad of the disco era with the release of such camp classics as "Xanadu," "Roller Boogie" and "Skatetown U.S.A." But that would be skating over the truth -- movies featuring roller skating have a rich heritage...Tags: Ira Gershwin, Whip It (movie), Movies, Fred Astaire, Ellen Page
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