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'Temptation's' Renée Taylor just has to laugh at it all
This post has been corrected. See note below for details. Renée Taylor is a very funny lady known for such comedic roles as Eva Braun in Mel Brooks' 1968 classic "The Producers," Fran Drescher's ultimate Jewish mother on "The Nanny" and Brian Benben's...
Tags: Lance Gross, Judaism, Brandy (singer), Fran Drescher, Rita Moreno
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Marilyn Monroe's eternal beauty
Los Angeles TimesMarilyn Monroe certainly achieved fame in the course of her 36-year lifetime, but in the five decades since her death, she's become such a celebrity-branding superstar, it often feels as if America's proto-platinum pinup never really left the building...Tags: Michael Jackson, Media Industry, Lady Gaga, Movies, Fashion Trends
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Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors
Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...
Tags: Tony Awards, Rita Hayworth, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Quinn, Paul Newman
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Ben Gazzara, 81, leaves a rich, gruff legacy in theater and film
Culture MonsterBen Gazzara, who died Friday in New York at the age of 81, was an actor with a gruff voice and intense demeanor. His acting legacy, which included the films of John Cassavetes and originating the role of Brick in...... -
Lee Strasberg papers headed to Library of Congress
Culture MonsterLee Strasberg, the acting instructor who promulgated the Method style of acting and nurtured the careers of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Al Pacino and many more, left behind a wealth of documents and other archival materials when he died in 1982. Now... -
Theater review: 'Dear Harvey' at the Strasberg Theatre
Culture MonsterSome 30-plus years after his death, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official in California, continues to focus the publicâs fascination â and outrage. Patricia Loughreyâs âDear Harvey,â presented by the Beat Project at the Lee... -
Theater review: 'bonded' at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Culture MonsterDavid C. Nichols reviews Donald Jolly's 'bonded' at LATC... -
Theater review: 'Girls Talk' at the Lee Strasberg Theatre
Culture MonsterRoger Kumble’s “Girls Talk,” premiering at the Lee Strasberg Theatre, is billed as a “vicious new play” and it lives up to both adjectives. Not even inserting “deliciously” or “bracingly” could... -
Theater review: ‘The Mercy Seat’ at [Inside] the Ford
Culture MonsterPhilip Brandes reviews the L.A. premiere of Neil LaBute's play 'The Mercy Seat' at [Inside] the Ford.... -
The real housewives of Brentwood, with Brooke Shields and Leslie Bibb
Culture MonsterThe lives of rich, spoiled housewives from Atlanta to Washington have become a stubborn staple of the reality TV landscape. If, for some reason, Bravo's popular, six-property franchise hasn't already sated your appetite for designer cat fights and... -
Marshall Flaum dies at 85; award-winning documentary maker
Marshall Flaum, an award-winning producer, director and writer who specialized in documentaries, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications after hip surgery, his family said. He was 85.
Flaum won five Emmy Awards, had...Tags: Television, Primetime Emmy Awards, Marshall Allen, David L. Wolper, Basil Rathbone
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Tom Bosley dies at 83; star of stage and TV's 'Happy Days'
Tom Bosley, a Tony Award-winning actor who was best known for playing Howard Cunningham, the amiable father on the hit TV series "Happy Days," has died. He was 83.
Bosley died early Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage after a brief...Tags: Bewitched (tv program), Debbie Reynolds, Scott Baio, Comedy (genre), Tavern on the Green
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