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Sophie Kurys dies at 87, star of women's professional baseball league
On a snowy April day in 1943, a high school sophomore from a working-class family in Flint, Mich., tried out for the major leagues. The big-city scouts were impressed and picked the lightning-quick teen on the spot — skirt and all. A month later,...
Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Baseball, Sports, World War II (1939-1945)
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Jerry West is rooting for Miami to keep up winning streak
Jerry West is rooting for the Miami Heat to keep winning, even if it means the former Lakers great loses one of his top legacies. West said during a teleconference with reporters Thursday that he wouldn’t mind if the Heat broke the Lakers’...
Tags: Jim McMillian, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Sports, Jerry West
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Max Allan Collins’ ‘Seduction of the Innocent’: Read exclusive excerpt
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWith his latest literary endeavor, “Seduction of the Innocent,” Max Allan Collins writes a hard-boiled detective novel inspired by the ...... -
25 years ago: Pete Maravich's tragic trip to Pasadena
Pete Maravich came to town 25 years ago, Jan. 5, 1988. No newspaper, local or national, had an obituary prepared. No need, presumably. Everything seemed normal that morning in the gymnasium at the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena. Maravich had...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Utah Jazz, Heart Problems, Boston Celtics, Focus on the Family
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Jennifer Lawrence, comfortable in her skin
Jennifer Lawrence slides into a booth at the casually elegant Culina restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel. She's on a lunch break from the daylong grind of promoting the international release of "Silver Linings Playbook," but she's not eating because...
Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), Skype, Lasagna, Apple iPhone, Film Festivals
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Hal Schaefer dies at 87; musician known for Marilyn Monroe liaison
"The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe's Divorce from Joe DiMaggio" read the headline on a 1955 Confidential magazine article that exposed a bumbling ambush involving the famous ballplayer and Frank Sinatra. The unlikely duo allegedly had tried to catch...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Music Industry, Periodicals, Mitzi Gaynor, Susan Hayward
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Richard Ben Cramer dies at 62; Pulitzer-winning journalist
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose narrative nonfiction spanned presidential politics and the game of baseball, has died. He was 62. Cramer died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from lung cancer,...
Tags: Journalism, George H.W. Bush, Elections, Sports, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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In excitement over Giants' World Series sweep, mistakes happen
L.A. NOWI left my brain in San Francisco. That’s the only possible explanation for the egregious error I made in a story about Sunday night’s outpouring of joy in San Francisco over the Giants’ four-game sweep of the shell-shocked Detroit Tigers... -
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio divorce
FrameworkMarilyn Monroe and retired baseball player Joe DiMaggio were married in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1954. By Oct. 4, 1954, the marriage was over.... -
Mike Smith finds love again with Royal Delta at Breeders' Cup
Quite the ladies' man, this Mike Smith. He may be bald, he may be just a little guy, and he may be just three years shy of that symbolic male decline age of 50. But put him in the saddle of a filly or mare in a big-money horse race and it is instant...
Tags: Churchill Downs, FIFA World Cup, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Hot Property: 'It's Complicated,' a Marilyn haunt, speech site
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. From the pool of potential Hot Property items, here are a trio that were just too interesting to delegate to the delete key: --If you loved the movie you’ll love the house? The...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Meryl Streep, George H.W. Bush, Marilyn Monroe, It's Complicated (movie)
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Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Don Van Natta Jr. Little, Brown: 404 pp., $27.99 So do you know who made the Top 10 when ESPN chose its 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century? Here they are: (1) Michael Jordan....Tags: ESPN (tv network), Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Willie Mays, Cancer, Jim Thorpe
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