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Al Gordon dies at 89; Emmy-winning comedy writer for Jack Benny
Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon died Wednesday of age-related causes at Cedars-...
Tags: Barbara Mandrell, Jack Benny, Eddie Anderson, Radio, Entertainment
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Theater review: ‘Hello! My Baby’ at the Rubicon Theatre
Culture MonsterPhilip Brandes reviews Cheri Steinkellner's new Tin Pan Alley-themed jukebox musical, "Hello! My Baby" at the Rubicon Theatre.... -
David Brown dies at 93; producer of 'Jaws,' 'The Sting'
David Brown, the former 20th Century Fox executive who partnered with Richard Zanuck in the early 1970s and produced the blockbuster hit "Jaws," as well as "The Verdict" and "Cocoon" before launching a solo career as a film and theatrical producer, has...Tags: Film Festivals, Periodicals, Sting, Journalism, Julie Andrews
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Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children
Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95.
Ruben, who devoted much of...Tags: Health, Fred Allen, Dick van Dyke, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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Classic Hollywood: Joel Grey looks back — and forward — at his career
There was a time in 1965 when Joel Grey thought he would throw in the towel on show business. He wanted to be Laurence Olivier but instead he was doing a dreadful musical in Jones Beach, Long Island, called " Mardi Gras" with the June Taylor Dancers.
"It...Tags: Neil Simon, Liza Minnelli, Music Theater, Television, Louis Armstrong
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Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men
Gold DerbyOn Wednesday, the motion picture academy announced the four honorees to be feted at the second annual Governors Awards on Nov. 14. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is to receive the Thalberg Award while film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-... -
What 'Boardwalk Empire' really does right: American pop's salad days
Pop & HissI love the golden age of appointment television. I was a lifelong surfer, jumping between cooking shows and "Law and Order" reruns in a vain attempt to avoid being told what probiotic to buy, until our DVR made it possible...... -
Eddie Fisher dies at 82; popular 1950s crooner was known for his high-profile marriages
As Eddie Fisher once put it, by the time he was 33, "I had been married to America's sweetheart and America's femme fatale, and both marriages had ended in scandal.
"I'd been one of the most popular singers in America and had given up my career for love....Tags: Health, Celebrities, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Eddie Fisher, Career and Workplace
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Gloria Stuart dies at 100; 'Titanic' actress
Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film — has...Tags: Melvyn Douglas, Celebrities, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Samuel Goldwyn, Unions
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At 'Cast Party,' the mike is open and the party is on
By the time Liza Minnelli took the stage at Birdland, just after midnight, the party was in full swing: Michael Feinstein hugged the Broadway legend and a bubbly, upbeat crowd sang happy birthday to her.
Parker Posey performed a wild, gyrating dance to...Tags: Edith Piaf, Carnegie Hall, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen
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Steffi Sidney-Splaver dies at 74; 'Rebel Without a Cause' actress
Steffi Sidney-Splaver, who as a young actress appeared in and then gave up acting to become a Hollywood writer, publicist and producer, has died. She was 74.
Sidney-Splaver died Monday of kidney failure at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, said her...Tags: Health, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Social Issues, Celebrities, Cinema Industry
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Theater review: 'Sammy' at the Old Globe
Culture MonsterHis shoulders are slumped from too many gigs, too many drugs and way too many women. The bags around his eyes droop nearly to the bottom of his cocktail glass. His whole body is haloed in the cigarette smoke that......
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