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American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'
German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...
Tags: Entertainment, Greta Garbo, Leukemia, Miriam Hopkins, Clifton Webb
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...
Tags: Jane Fonda, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Douglas
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Hot Property: Actress Debra Messing hoping for an off-Broadway hit
Debra Messing, who stars on "Smash" as Broadway lyricist Julia Houston, has listed her showstopper in Bel-Air for $11.995 million. The traditional-style house, designed by architect Paul R. Williams and built in 1937, features bay windows, updated...
Tags: Renee Zellweger, Swimming, Entertainment, Smash (tv program), Christopher LLoyd
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Photography, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Entertainment, Orson Welles, Drama (genre)
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'Liz & Dick' producer talks risks of working with Lindsay Lohan
Larry A. Thompson has long been fascinated with celebrity couples who "fly so close to the sun." Sonny and Cher, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are duos featured in several television movies developed by the veteran...
Tags: Entertainment, Elizabeth Taylor, Good Morning America (tv program), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., ABC Family (tv network)
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Frank Beardsley dies at 97; patriarch of blended family of 20
When the delivery truck pulled up at the base of their steep driveway, the Beardsley children knew what to do. The crew, clad in hand-me-down clothes, poured out of their eight-bedroom Carmel home and down the hill. They helped unload 50-pound bags of...
Tags: Diabetes, Henry Fonda, World War II (1939-1945), Rene Russo, Breads
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The Stooges shot here? Soitenly, says a new book
Here’s forehead-smacking news for any Los Angeles visitor (or local) who can’t get enough of Moe, Curly and Larry: “The Three Stooges Hollywood Filming Locations” (Santa Monica Press, $39.95) by Jim Pauley. It’s an actual...
Tags: Ron Howard, Lifestyle and Leisure
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California Escape: Palm Springs uncovered
It's understandable why, as wintry weather sets in elsewhere, travelers flock to Palm Springs for warmth and sunshine. Heavy clothes are quickly replaced by T-shirts and shorts — or, at some resorts, no clothes at all. Palm Springs is a hot spot not...
Tags: Desi Arnaz, Marilyn Monroe, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking
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TV This Week: Jan. 13 - 19: 'Girls' on HBO
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 13 - 19, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY If you were hoping for a Ricky Gervais four-peat, you are out of luck, my friend. This year, it'll be gal...
Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Sarah Jessica Parker, Joshua Jackson, Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais
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'Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures' features an unlikely star
Elsa Emerson leaves home, becomes a movie star named Laura Lamont, marries a studio executive, wins an Oscar, suffers the inevitable career decline, takes too many pills and winds up in the hospital, works in a dress shop, then gets a chance to make a...
Tags: Irving Thalberg, The Washington Post, Human Interest, Celebrities, Chicago Tribune
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Classic Hollywood: 'Strawberry Summer' pairs Shelley Long, Cindy Williams
Sitcom favorites Shelley Long and Cindy Williams get to strut their comedic stuff together for the first time in the Hallmark Movie Channel's new film, "Strawberry Summer," which airs at 8 p.m. Saturday. Both stars say they are surprised it took them this...
Tags: Entertainment, Moonlighting (tv program), Liza Minnelli, Dyan Cannon, Jane Seymour
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William Asher dies at 90; 'I Love Lucy,' 'Bewitched' director
As the director of more than 100 episodes of the enduringly classic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," William Asher considered the first episode he directed to be one of his most memorable: Lucy and Ethel working in a chocolate factory.
But for Asher, who died...Tags: Entertainment, Bewitched (tv program), Eve Arden, Television, Annette Funicello
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