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Letters: Annette Funicello's gift
Re "'America's sweetheart,'" Obituary, April 9 When I was a girl, my parents had a birthday brunch for me at the Pump Room in Chicago. The waiter came to our noisy table of 9-year-olds and said Annette Funicello was nearby and could meet the birthday... -
Is Malibu turning into the Larry Ellison beach club?
The membership roll in Malibu's unofficial Billionaire's Beach club is shrinking. Former Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Terry Semel and his wife, Jane, have sold their spot to Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison, who already has eight other houses along Carbon...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Swimming, Entertainment, Talk Shows (genre), Metal and Mineral
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Phyllis Diller lived here and named many of the rooms
The longtime home of comic Phyllis Diller has come on the market in Brentwood at $12.9 million. The Country English-style house sits on 1.25 flat acres. It was built in 1914 as a summer home for Lawrence C. Phipps, who made his fortune in the steel...
Tags: Arts, Phyllis Diller, Entertainment, Bob Hope, Arts and Culture
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Phyllis Diller's wacky-wig room
Comic Phyllis Diller, who died Monday at 95, was one of former Hot Property columnist Ruth Ryon's favorite interview subjects.
While doing a story on the entertainer at her Brentwood home more than a decade ago, Ryon discovered a prolific artist, a...Tags: Lauren Beale, Arts, Entertainment, Bob Hope, Arts and Culture
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Chicago, that tippling town
The first rule of business — any business — is this: Do what you do well. And what Chicago does well is drink. Oh, there are other things to be sure (architecture! comedy! baseball!), but in this city, booze is as much a business as it is...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Grant Achatz, River North, Wicker Park, Arts and Culture
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No one cares more
The Baltimore SunWhen I got my reviewer's copy of Bill Walsh's new book, Yes I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk (St. Martin's Griffin, 256 pages, $14.99), the book fell open to this passage: "You're free to talk back to your usage guides....Tags: David Foster Wallace, Arts and Culture, Language
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Zagat names Chicago's 30 Under 30
Tribune criticZagat, publishers of the reader-review based Zagat Guides, has released its second-annual “30 Under 30” list of Chicagoans in the restaurant and hospitality business. The list, intended to recognize up-and-coming talents rather than...Tags: L2O, Spiaggia, Blackbird, Telegraph, Ken Carter
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I blame the Renaissance
The Baltimore SunIt never fails. You try to point out that some supposed rule has no validity or make some empirical observation about actual English usage, and immediately comes the God-is-dead-and-everything-is-permitted outcry. It happened today in a Facebook comment... -
Sighting: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield reunite in Chicago supermarket
Chicago once again played host to a Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield reunion Saturday, just like it did when the two former boxing rivals appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2009. But rather than reunite in front of a live studio audience, they smiled and...
Tags: Marc Trestman, Spiaggia, USA Network (tv network), Steppenwolf Theatre, Wicker Park
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David Chase: coming-of-age stories never get old
David Chase's new movie, "Not Fade Away," his first major work since concluding "The Sopranos," tells the story of a thoughtful teenage boy (John Magaro) growing up in New Jersey during the 1960s. Flat December light settles over the film's suburban...
Tags: James Gandolfini, Entertainment, Woodstock Festival (1969), David Chase, Entertainment Events
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Chicago singer Tony Adriacchi loved performing
In the 1980s, Tony Andriacchi was almost as famous in Chicago as his heroes Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra were around the world. Audiences queued up to hear one of the most lustrous male voices to come out of this city, an instrument that Andriacchi...
Tags: Music, Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Entertainment
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Video/Q&A: Chicago native 'Flight' director Robert Zemeckis
Raised in the South Side neighborhood of Roseland, 61-year-old director Robert Zemeckis hasn’t achieved much as a filmmaker. Oh, wait: He’s only made classics like “Back to the Future,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and...
Tags: Heart Surgery, Entertainment, Don Cheadle, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Restaurants
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