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Who will win Emmys and why: All award mysteries finally explained (including why crazy Hollywooders keep voting for schizo roles)
Gold DerbyBasically, I think Emmys are going to make like a TV repeat this year and bring back last year's winners in all top series races: best drama ("Mad Men"), lead drama actor (Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"), lead drama actress (Glenn Close, "Damages"),... -
National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal
Jacket CopyThe National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel "Let the Great World Spin," a story of New York in 1974 that doubles as an allegory of 9/11. It was the final award at the black-tie...... -
10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years
Gold DerbyOne of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look at the past two decades, offering his take on the most... -
The last mystery of Gore Vidal
You hear Gore Vidal long before you see him, the steady tap-swish-tap of foot and cane on an upstairs landing in his sunny Spanish Colonial house in the Hollywood Hills; then there's the slow whir of a mechanical chairlift carrying the novelist-essayist-...
Tags: Architecture, Diabetes, Arts and Culture, Academy Awards, Literature
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Paul Newman wielded his beauty like a craftsman
Times Movie CriticPaul Newman, that pure and concentrated essence of classic movie stardom, reinvented himself a couple of times in the span of his long career, until he ended up playing the kind of guy he might have become had he never left his native Shaker Heights,...Tags: George Kennedy, Minority Groups, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Celebrities
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Actor Paul Newman dies at 83
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPaul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday at his home near Westport, Conn.,...Tags: Reviews, Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Family, Academy Awards
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In Search of a State of Grace
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"He's late." "Yeah, way late." It's been more than a minute since Paul Newman's car last whizzed past the pit area of Lime Rock Park. His crew knows something's wrong, for he's been running laps in less than 55 seconds. But two minutes pass, then three,...Tags: Eyewear, Children, Academy Awards, Dining and Drinking, Cinema Industry
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Marriage In The Movies: A Look At Hollywood's Phantom Genre
The Hartford CourantJeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies,...Tags: Myrna Loy, Family, Middletown, Judy Holliday, Albert Finney
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Local places third in world in equestrian event
Bits and pieces from the local sports scene. Christine Hocutt-Senteney does well in equestrian event in Texas: Burbank resident Christine Hocutt-Senteney captured the third-place Farnam Select All-Around Amateur title at the 2012 Adequan Select...Tags: Grace Kelly, Carlos Dunlap, Arts and Culture, Jack Klugman, Steve McQueen
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John Kander, Jack O'Brien Join In McNally Tribute At Westport Playhouse
Hartford CourantPlanning to join in the salute to playwright Terrence McNally at the Westport Country Playhouse gala are John Kander, who collaborated with McNally for the musicals, “The Rink,” “The Visit,” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman,"...Tags: Tyne Daly, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Music, Christopher Plummer
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Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidalmight have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. But Vidal made his...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Frank Sinatra, Tim Robbins, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program), William Wyler
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“American Masters” Gore Vidal episode streaming and on-air for limited time
Channel Guide MagazinePBS has announced that starting today, Aug. 3, it will be making the 2003 documentary American Masters: “The Education of Gore Vidal” available for streaming on the American Masters website and PBS Video to commemorate the life of the eclectic...
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