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Ray Ellis dies at 85; arranger worked with Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, scores of others
Ray Ellis, the versatile pop music arranger who wrote the charts for hits by the Four Lads, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Doris Day and Johnny Mathis, has died. He was 85.
Ellis, a longtime resident of Ojai, died Oct. 27 of liver cancer at an assisted-...Tags: Skin Cancer, Jerry Wexler, Television, Music Industry, Billie Holiday
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A wave of celebrity protest in Malibu
Times Staff WriterThe campaign to halt various proposals to build natural gas terminals off the Southern California coast has been a rather subdued affair — until Sunday, when a parade of celebrities and surfers showed up in Malibu to join the protest. The target of...Tags: Cher, Television, Ted Danson, Government, Dick van Dyke
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Las Vegas, the city of surreal shopping
By Shermakaye Bass Special to The Times Shopping for that perfect G-string? Seeking the definitive NBA tipsheet — or a zebra-striped chaise longue shaped like a platform shoe? Maybe so, maybe not. But isn't it great to know there is a town where...Tags: Rentals, Museum Dioramas, Beef Stroganoff, Family, Tourism and Leisure
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George Carlin, 71; comedian tested limits of speech and society
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersGeorge Carlin, the acerbic, Grammy-winning comedian whose career spanned more than 50 years, died of heart failure Sunday evening after being admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains, his spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a history of...Tags: Television, George Carlin, Nick Nolte, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment
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Obama: star of his own movie
THE MOST UBIQUITOUS POLITICAL trope of the presidential campaign has been that Barack Obama is not just any old politician; he's a "rock star." (There are 770,000 Google hits of Obama and "rock star" and counting.) He attracts the kind of huge crowds that...Tags: Barack Obama, James Cagney, Norman Mailer, Entertainment, Heroism
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An ugly attack on Mormons
Did you catch the political ad in which two Jews ring the doorbell of a nice, working-class family? They barge in and rifle through the wife's purse and then the man's wallet for any cash. Cackling, they smash the daughter's piggy bank and pinch every...Tags: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Social Issues, Family, Entertainment, Gays and Lesbians
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Searching for the Why of Buy
Times Staff WriterPictures of products danced in his head. There was an Apple iPod, then a black Aeron chair. A coffeepot by Capresso and a washing machine by Dyson. Christian Dior followed by Versace, Oakley, Honda, Evian and Louis Vuitton. Each icon of commercial...Tags: Government, Entertainment, Gaming, Celebrities, Republican Party
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Ex-Canadian Premier Pierre Trudeau dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPierre Elliott Trudeau, the charismatic and controversial former prime minister of Canada whose vision inspired Canadians to reexamine their national character and reinvent their government, died Thursday in Montreal, his family announced. He was 80....Tags: Television, Government, Prostate Cancer, Entertainment, Jean Chretien
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For Neff, an era of glamour came first
Times Staff WriterInnovative as they were, Wallace Neff's WW II-era low-cost housing designs such as the the Shell House in Pasadena never really caught on in America. No matter. Neff was already famous as the architect of the golden age of movie star mansions, building...Tags: Greta Garbo, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Katharine Hepburn, Madonna, Jack Lemmon
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A brush with the bold
Times Staff WriterPack it up, beige and white. You're no longer safe. Color has blasted its way back. Paint makers are pouring Pink Minx, Mystical Grape and Relish Green into gallon cans. Shocking colors are being slathered on walls by TV-show decorators who see it as a...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Cary Grant, Television, Tom Hanks, Entertainment
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It's a Small World After All: Eisner, Ovitz United in Court
Times Staff WriterTheir wives were close friends. Their Aspen vacation homes were a 10-minute drive apart. When one underwent heart surgery, the other kept vigil at the hospital. But whatever personal chemistry Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner and former...Tags: Corporate Officers, Surgery, Justice System, Corporate Crime, Sony Corp.
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Catching a new wave
Special to The TimesForty years ago, when he was all of 23, Miller Fong sketched a chair on an envelope and mailed it to his father in Hong Kong, where the family manufactured rattan and wicker furniture for its Los Angeles company, Tropi-Cal. The finished product —...Tags: Television, Design and Engineering, Family, Entertainment, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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