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The Master of the One-Liner
Times Staff WriterBob Hope, the elder statesman of comedy whose extraordinary career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies, books and makeshift concert platforms in war zones, has died. He was 100. Hope died at 9:28 p.m. Sunday at his home in Toluca...Tags: Jack Benny, John Steinbeck, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Satellite and Cable Service
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Old Hollywood's shadow falls on Palm Desert
Special to The TimesIt was dark and pin-drop quiet when we pulled into Mojave's circular driveway and walked down a winding path to our poolside room. Steam rose from the lighted Jacuzzi, and grapefruit trees cast misshapen shadows on the patio. Inside our room, Frank...Tags: Personal Service, Photography, Julie Christie, Mae West, Natalie Wood
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Audrey Meadows, Alice in 'The Honeymooners,' Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAudrey Meadows, revered as the feisty Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason's garrulous bus driver Ralph in television's comedy classic " The Honeymooners," has died. Meadows died of lung cancer at 8:50 p.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,...Tags: Television, Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny, Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945)
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'Chs. Carroll Turns Detective; Solves Initial Mystery' [History Matters]
100 Years Ago 'Refined' burlesque An ad in the Times: "Gayety Theatre — A Big Event in Local Theatricals — An announcement will soon be made of the coming to Baltimore of one stellar aggregation of stars, that will surprise even the...Tags: Phil Silvers, Radio, Polio, Ellicott City, Entertainment
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After 37 years of mixed success, Towson Center hosts final games
Towson plays its final basketball games Saturday at the Towson Center, its home for 37 years. And then? Lights out. Court adjourned. Next year, the Tigers graduate to the Tiger Arena, a glitzy $72 million, 5,200-seat venue being built adjacent to the...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Bill Cosby, Ray Charles, College Basketball, Sports
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Johnny Carson to play it again on TCM
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelJohnny Carson, one of TV's greatest stars, gets a new gig next summer. Not bad for a man who died in 2005. TCM will replay Carson's “Tonight Show” interviews with Hollywood greats, from Henry Fonda and James Stewart to Sally Field and Susan... -
“Larry’s Country Diner” serves up generous helpings of country greats on RFD-TV
Channel Guide MagazineMuch like the kind of establishment that serves as its setting, the RFD-TV sensation Larry's Country Diner is meant to be a respite for weary travelers, an oasis that caters to a group of patrons largely ignored elsewhere in the TV landscape. So says... -
Letters to the Editor: ACT scores, Eric Holder, Petoskey library millage, Charlevoix prosecutor
Student test scores unacceptable Editor: How can a person be considered college ready when they fail the ACT test? From what this paper reported ( the average act test score in Michigan is 19.7 out of a possible 36), that’s an incredibly poor...
Tags: Prosecution, Eric Holder, Abusive Behavior, Elections, Lawyers
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
5 - 5:30 a.m. The Great Outdoors with Charlie Potter 5:30 - 6 a.m. Love Changes Life 6 - 6:30 a.m. The Lutheran Hour 6:30 - 9 a.m. The Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan 8:05 a.m. Natalie West, best known as Crystal from “Roseanne”, joins...Tags: Radio, That's My Boy (movie), Adam Sandler, Albert Almora, Entertainment
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Ann Rutherford dies at 94
Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett's younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" was her most enduring, has died. She was 94. Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney's teenage girlfriend in the Andy Hardy...
Tags: Suzanne Pleshette, Radio, Vivien Leigh, The Spirit (movie), Celebrities
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Humble theaters become movie palaces
In October 1917, a theater opened at 3535 W. Roosevelt Road that changed the moviegoing experience, in Chicago and the nation.
In the era of the nickelodeon, a term reflecting not just the price of admission, but the surroundings, motion pictures were...Tags: L (movie), Central Park, Movies, Palace Theater, Entertainment
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Intersections: Unearthing the grave history of Hollywood
A calm, cold breeze runs throughout the marble-encased, maze-like corridors of Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum, where the who's who of Hollywood have come to permanently rest. But that changes once you reach its deepest and oldest cobweb-covered crevice...Tags: Michael Jackson, Westminster Abbey, Celebrities, Clark Gable, Entertainment Events
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