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Terry 'Tubesteak' Tracy dies at 77; model for Big Kahuna in 'Gidget'
In 1956, Terry "Tubesteak" Tracy, freshly fired from his job at a downtown insurance company, bid goodbye to the 9-to-5 life and headed for the Malibu shore, where he built himself a shack out of wood scraps and palm fronds and sailed into surfing...
Tags: Slang, Surfing, Cliff Robertson, Sports, Cancer
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Nora Ephron dies at 71; writer of sharp-edged romances
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Nora Ephron, who cast an acerbic eye on relationships, metropolitan living and aging in essays, books, plays and hit movies including "Sleepless in Seattle," "When Harry Met Sally..."...Tags: Julia Child, Crime, Law and Justice, Salads, William Goldman, Journalism
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From the Stacks – 'In the Wrong Rain' (1959)
The Daily MirrorHope died in the opening lines of “In the Wrong Rain,” and optimism succumbed a few pages later. Duty ground stubbornly ahead for a chapter or two before collapsing as well. Curiosity thumbed randomly through the book and then tossed...... -
Q+LA Julian Fellowes
LA Times MagazineThe reigning monarch of England’s storied past tells tales on his beloved Downton Abbey... -
Cliff Robertson dies at 88; actor starred in films and on stage and TV
Cliff Robertson, who starred as John F. Kennedy in a 1963 World War II drama and later won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a mentally disabled bakery janitor in the movie "Charly," died Saturday, one day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson, who also...Tags: Henry Fonda, Periodicals, Cancer, FBI, Jane Powell
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From the Vaults: 'Portrait in Black' (1960)
The Daily Mirror"Portrait in Black" has just about everything you need for a campy good time: Sandra Dee! Lana Turner in an increasingly elaborate selection of diamond earrings! A very tan Anthony Quinn! Former silent film actress Anna May Wong as a housekeeper named... -
PASSINGS: Patriarch Pavle, Paul Wendkos
Patriarch Pavle
Serbia's Orthodox leader
Patriarch Pavle, 95, who led Serbia's Orthodox Church and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic conflicts of the 1990s but stopped short of openly condemning Serb nationalism, died in his...Tags: Civil Unrest, Crime, Law and Justice, Drama (genre), Religious Conflicts, Jayne Mansfield
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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of July 4 - 10 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here EXTRA CREDIT: The college-set sitcom âCommunityâ offers a mini-marathon of six...... -
Where sand is always hot
Special to The TimesWE all live for the sun. At least, that's the case in Southern California. How many people have high-tailed it west after watching cutaway shots of surfers and inline skaters wearing hardly anything during the Rose Bowl broadcast every January? The...Tags: Rose Bowl Game, The Beach Boys, Documentary (genre)
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You Saw it Here First
When it comes to fashon, California is more proselytizer than creator. Some of the clothing most identified with the Golden State was actually invented elsewhere -- the bikini in France, for instance, or designer jeans in Milan. What California has done...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Surfing, Sports, Bars and Clubs, Marilyn Monroe
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Olivia Newton-John's early, later songs outshine 1970s hits at Easton's State Theatre
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWhen it comes to music, the 1970s was a vapid wasteland. So did Olivia Newton-John’s more than a dozen Top 10 songs in that decade mean she was that good, or just that everything else was just so bad? Turns...... -
'Glee' recap: Glease
Guest blogger Jen Broadwater here, filling in for L'Oreal, who is otherwise occupied this evening leading her fabulous life. When L'Oreal asked me to pinch hit for her tonight on Glee, my first thought was, "Uh oh, I guess I need to learn the new...
Tags: Glee (tv program), Lima (Peru), Theater, Ambien (drug), Music Theater
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