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Review: 'Gimme the Loot' paints the town red
"Gimme the Loot" shouldn't be as appealing and exuberant as it is, it really shouldn't. It's set in the Bronx, the grittiest of New York City boroughs. Its larcenous teenage protagonists are introduced stealing spray paint from a hardware store; the...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Theft, Entertainment, Movies, Bronx (New York City)
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Catherine Parr -- the queen who kept her head
Liz Smith"DIVORCED, BEHEADED, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived." So goes the old rhyme about the six wives of King Henry VIII. It is the Queen who "survived" -- Catherine Parr -- who is the subject of Elizabeth Freemantle's wildly entertaining historical novel,...Tags: Kate Burton, Bay Street Theater, Elizabeth Taylor, Anglicanism, Literature
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'Book' lampoons life in Hinsdale
When God created Hinsdale it was to provide a place for famous Chicago television and radio broadcasters to live. That, of course, is a tongue-in-cheek take on the village's history and — if you chuckled when you read that — it's just the...Tags: Jennifer Garner, YouTube, Music, Autism, Entertainment
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What to read in 2013
January Insane City by Dave Barry (Putnam) The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's first solo adult novel in more than a decade is a typically absurdist comic story about everything — and then some — that goes wrong for Seth and his friends en...
Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Barack Obama, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Orson Welles, Scientology
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Jack Klugman dies at 90; star of TV's 'The Odd Couple,' 'Quincy'
Special to The TimesJack Klugman, the three-time Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his portrayals of slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison on TV's “The Odd Couple” and the title role of the murder-solving medical examiner on “Quincy, M.E.,” died...Tags: ABC (tv network), Chicago Tribune, Jack Klugman, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment
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TV This Week: Dec. 9 - 15: 'Help for the Holidays' on Hallmark
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY "Portlandia's" Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein help keep Springfield weird when they guest star on "The Simpsons."...
Tags: ABC (tv network), ABC Family (tv network), Fred Armisen, Bruce Springsteen, Katherine Heigl
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The Ghosts of 'Tinseltown'
JAMES STEWART 1908-1997 Best known as: The lovable Everyman in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and other Frank Capra classics; also took edgy turns in Hitchcock thrillers Holiday classic: "It's a Wonderful Life" Oscar? Best Actor in 1940 for "The...Tags: Frank Capra Jr., Celebrities, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Holidays, It's a Wonderful Life (movie)
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Stepping into the stars of Tinseltown
When Madeleine Barker's fellow cast members handed her the Oscar in the Claire Trevor Theatre, she felt excited for herself and a little sad for Judy Garland. Barker, who plays Garland in UC Irvine's upcoming musical "Tinseltown Christmas," had been...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Christmas, Religious Festivals, Claire Trevor, Music Theater
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Thanksgiving TV specials 2012
Channel Guide MagazineUpdated Nov. 20, 2012, 4:23pm CT We've broken down the list of Thanksgiving TV marathons, as well as some upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes of your favorite TV shows. Now, here is a look at some of the top standalone Thanksgiving TV specials... -
Saul Genendlis, city schools educator
Saul Genendlis, an advocate for special education and a retired Baltimore City schools principal and administrator, died of heart disease Sept. 25 at his Hampstead home. He was 84.
Known by his students as Mr. G., he was once the city's acting...Tags: Armed Forces, Fort Meade (military base), William Donald Schaefer, Students, Teaching and Learning
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A vote for Question 6 is a vote to end discrimination
Like everyone I know, I am planning to vote this November for Question 6 to legalize same-sex marriages in Maryland. The law will rectify an unfair situation which, if it were not so ugly in its discrimination, would almost be humorous. It was all...Tags: Diets and Dieting, Marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, Politics, Discrimination
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'A crazy kind of mishmash'
Carmine Sardo leads a double life much akin to that of a comic book superhero. By day, he's a mild-mannered merchant, tending to his La Crescenta auto and boat upholstery business. After dark, Sardo is transmogrified into a musical crusader, a player of...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Ray Brown, Barney Kessel, Bars and Clubs, Johnnie Ray
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