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William Gibson dies at 94; Tony Award-winning playwright was best known for 'The Miracle Worker'
William Gibson, 94, a Tony Award-winning playwright best known for "The Miracle Worker," the inspirational story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, died Tuesday at his home in Stockbridge, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death....Tags: Arthur Penn, Career and Workplace, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Tony Awards, Sammy Davis Jr.
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'My Blueberry Nights' to open Cannes Film Festival
Special to The TimesPARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition....Tags: Gena Rowlands, Natalie Portman, Justice System, Ken Burns, Toni Collette
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Peter Fonda goes his way
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEARLY four decades after riding his Captain America chopper to fame, Peter Fonda is still bucking trends. Two-wheeling through Coldwater Canyon during a recent late-morning ride, Hollywood's iconic biker wasn't showboating on the Harley-Davidson...Tags: Harley-Davidson Inc., Dennis Hopper, Academy Awards, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Vehicles
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Van Johnson, MGM's boy-next-door, dies at 92
Van Johnson, who soared to stardom during World War II as MGM's boy-next-door in films such as "A Guy Named Joe" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and became one of the era's top box-office draws, died Friday. He was 92.
Johnson, who was most frequently...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), World War II (1939-1945), William Randolph Hearst, Marlene Dietrich, Winston Churchill
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American heritage brands make a comeback
Fashion CriticWhen Charles Beckman sold his first pair of work boots for $1.75 in the sleepy town of Red Wing, Minn., in 1905, he probably never imagined that in 2008, those leather lace-ups would be selling for $235 at hipster havens Urban Outfitters and Opening...Tags: U.S. Military, Grunge (genre), Keanu Reeves, Japan, Urban Outfitters Incorporated
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Atmosphere at the Henry Fonda Theater
Special to The Times"Underground hip-hop" is dead. Not to say that below-the-radar artists no longer exist but rather that the conventional definition of "underground" is more nebulous than ever before. Take Atmosphere, one of the sub-genre's standard-bearers, a group whose...Tags: Death, Poetry
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This is your brain on love
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHER front brain is telling her he's trouble. Look at the facts, it says. He's never made a commitment, he drinks too much, he can't hold down a job. But her middle brain won't listen. Man, it swoons, he looks great in those jeans, his black hair curls...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Photography, Behavioral Conditions, Dance, Lotteries
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Shape up, poor people
JOE QUEENAN writes frequently for Barron's, the New York Times Book Review and the Guardian.THE OTHER night, while channel surfing, I happened upon the famous final scene from John Ford's classic film, "The Grapes of Wrath." Hearing Henry Fonda's inspirational words about always being present, if only in spirit, whenever injustice was...Tags: Assault, John Steinbeck, Paris Hilton, Walker Evans, Social Issues
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Author of the play 'Tea and Sympathy'
Playwright Robert Anderson, author of such Broadway hits as "Tea and Sympathy" and "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running," died Monday. He was 91. His stepdaughter, Mary-Kelly Busch, said Anderson, who had Alzheimer's disease, died of...Tags: Vincente Minnelli, World War II (1939-1945), Robert Anderson, Music Theater, John Kerr
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Jack Cardiff dies at 94; Oscar-winning British cinematographer
Jack Cardiff, the British cinematographer who won an Academy Award for his stunning color work on the 1947 drama "Black Narcissus" and later became an Oscar-nominated director, has died. He was 94. Cardiff, who as a cinematographer was known as a pioneer...Tags: Dean Stockwell, Ava Gardner, London (England), Marilyn Monroe, Documentary (genre)
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L.A. Story
Rock stars, Jazzers, Pachucos...they may have grown up somewhere else quaint, like Sandusky, Ohio, or Canada, but they made their mark herelived, created and died here. Music is as much a part of the L.A. legacy as film and television. From the bebop...Tags: Baptist, Michael Jackson, Neil Young, Jim Morrison, Linda Ronstadt
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