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Marilyn Monroe's lips get top bid in Andy Warhol online auction
Marilyn Monroe, one of America’s most beloved pop cultural icons, and New Coke, one of its most despised, commanded the biggest bids in the first in a series of online Christie’s auctions of Andy Warhol artworks that ended Tuesday. The...
Tags: Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola Co., E-Commerce Industry, Coca-Cola, Arts and Culture
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Review: Little to toast at this 'Divorce Party'
Sometimes, a project comes along that is so cynically lowbrow, it boggles the tortured mind. "Divorce Party: The Musical,” now in its glitzy, empty West Coast premiere at the El Portal, is just such a project, a piece of ossified fluff obviously...
Tags: George Lucas, Music, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Family
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White hot red carpet trend
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticHollywood has had a love affair with head-turning white gowns both on-screen and off for more than half a century. Who can forget Marilyn Monroe's white Travilla halter dress billowing around her waist as she stands atop a subway grate in the 1955 film...Tags: Roman Holiday (movie), Ralph Lauren, Screen Actors Guild, Audrey Hepburn, Rodarte
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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: Louis Gossett Jr., The Nanny (tv program), Renee Taylor, Religion and Belief, Martin Landau
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Mitch McConnell may miss sharing the spotlight with Ashley Judd
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for reelection next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie, while...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, George Clooney, Ashley Judd, Alec Baldwin, Politics
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Andy Warhol online auction is prime turf for celebrity-gawking
Andy Warhol famously said that in the future, everyone would have 15 minutes of fame. But that didn't stop him from focusing his camera lenses and other image-making implements on folks whose ride on the wagon of celebrity figured to last somewhat...
Tags: Arts, Andy Warhol, John Denver, Fine Artists, Soups
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Oscars 2013: Jessica Chastain's best red carpet look yet?
When in doubt, go with Giorgio Armani and the old Hollywood look. Jessica Chastain did just that, choosing a coppery-nude sequin mesh strapless gown by Armani Prive. And it may just be her best red carpet look yet. Oscars 2013 red carpet photos...
Tags: Giorgio Armani S.P.A., Milan Fashion Week, Academy Awards, Alexander McQueen, Ryan Seacrest
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Sophie Kurys dies at 87, star of women's professional baseball league
On a snowy April day in 1943, a high school sophomore from a working-class family in Flint, Mich., tried out for the major leagues. The big-city scouts were impressed and picked the lightning-quick teen on the spot — skirt and all. A month later,...
Tags: Baseball, World War II (1939-1945), Joe DiMaggio, Sports
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Which is worse, isolation or loneliness?
Henry David Thoreau relished isolation but didn't feel lonely. Marilyn Monroe was a social butterfly but died lonely. Their separate fates -- Thoreau dead of tuberculosis at 44, Monroe of suicide at 36 -- can't tell us much scientifically, but a study...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Tuberculosis
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How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticThe Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about...Tags: Roman Holiday (movie), James Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Prada, Janet Leigh
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Homemade 'peeps'? These chicks rule.
Los Angeles TimesMaybe they slowly grew on me. Or maybe it was the sheer sugar rush — from testing close to 75 dozen chicks — but I'll admit it. I've grown fond of Peeps. For most of us, an Easter basket simply isn't complete without a box of Peeps. The...Tags: Ceremonies, Marshmallows, Easter, Just Born, Inc., Halloween
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Beverly Coburn sells star-magnet WeHo triplex for $3.72 million
Beverly Coburn, actor James Coburn's first wife, has sold a West Hollywood triplex with a history of stellar tenants for $3.72 million. The building, which has counted film star Marilyn Monroe and singer Frank Sinatra among its one-time residents,...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, James Coburn
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