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Here's Peter Lassally: A life in late-night television
Late-night television, busier than ever (and at its best, better than ever) with talk shows and comedy, has been in the news again lately, with the hand-over of "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno to Jimmy Fallon officially announced for next spring —...
Tags: Entertainment, Radio City Music Hall, David Letterman, Netherlands, Craig Kilborn
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City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block
L.A. NOWCity Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block... -
PASSINGS: Robert Morgan Fink, Gene Vollnogle, Dorothy McGuire Williamson
Robert Morgan Fink Biochemist at UCLA Robert Morgan Fink, 96, a retired UCLA biochemistry professor whose groundbreaking research with his biochemist wife included developing a new technique in the late 1940s to study the thyroid, died Wednesday of...
Tags: Lehigh University, Chemistry, Science and Technology, Sports, Dorothy McGuire
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Dick Clark dies at 82; he introduced America to rock 'n' roll
Dick Clark, the youthful-looking television personality who literally introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve...Tags: Radio Industry, Medical Procedures and Tests, Jerry Lee Lewis, American Music Awards, Diabetes
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Andy Rooney dies at 92; curmudgeonly commentator on '60 Minutes'
Andy Rooney, CBS News' longtime resident curmudgeon whose whimsical and acerbic essays on "60 Minutes" turned the rumpled writer into an unlikely — and reluctant — TV celebrity, died Friday night, only weeks after retiring from the show. He...Tags: Entertainment, History (tv network), Wars and Interventions, Newspaper and Magazine, Gays and Lesbians
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Appreciation: Andy Rooney, 1919-2011
Show TrackerThe American humorist Andy Rooney, who last month retired from his longtime seat on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," which he would cap each week with an observation about this thing or that -- or more often this thing...... -
'Real Housewives of D.C.'s' Mary Schmidt Amons' connection to Bravo stars has her family giddy
Show TrackerWhen Caroline Manzo, the matriarch over on âThe Real Housewives of New Jersey,â walks into a room, one canât help but stammer. Exhibit A: Danielle Staub. So itâs no surprise that Mary Schmidt Amons, part of the hit franchiseâ... -
Larry King as you've never seen him -- suspenderless
Top of the TicketLarry King does his last show on CNN after more than a century of interviewing politicians back to Lincoln.... -
A&E's 'Longmire' rides again
McClatchy-Tribune News ServicePASADENA, Calif. Though he always felt something was pushing him toward acting, Lance Reddick ignored it. His dad was an attorney, and Lance was on his way to becoming a classical music composer. Then something went awry. "I always knew I had a thing...Tags: Australia, The Wall Street Journal, 24 (tv program), World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Applied Physics
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Nashville remembers Patsy Cline
ReporterMiss the marker out front, and you might confuse the building for just another office on Nashville's Music Row, but step inside the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, and you'll find the studio that gave us many of country music's most...Tags: Entertainment, Bars and Clubs, Mike Curb, Music Industry, Salt
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Music lovers mourn Jimmy Damon, classic Chicago lounge singer
For roughly half a century, cabaret singer Jimmy Damon was practically ubiquitous in Chicago. Clubs, concert halls, charity events, civic gatherings, awards presentations – somehow Damon always was there, dispatching the national anthem or...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Theater, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Heart Disease, Rush University Medical Center
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Onetime flop now an Andy Griffith classic
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when the right actor finds the path straight into a corrupt soul on fire, a strange kind of joy erupts on screen — a sense of true discovery and excitement. This is what Andy Griffith brought to his film...
Tags: Entertainment, Celebrities, The Andy Griffith Show (tv program), Walter Winchell, Andy Griffith
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