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Bruce Willis seeks action on his Beverly Hills estate
Actor Bruce Willis has entered the fray in the Westside's action-packed housing market, listing his Beverly Hills mansion at $22 million. The walled and gated estate includes a 1928 Spanish-style house with a porte-cochere, a swimming pool surrounded by...
Tags: Jessica Simpson, Kat Von D, Entertainment Events, Celebrities, Services and Shopping
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What's that on your swim trunks? Oh, the Paris Review. Of course.
Writers of literary fiction are not typically known for their fashion sense, but maybe they can learn. Or maybe the fashionable can be turned onto literary fiction, given the opportunity. Enter Barney's. It has paired the Orlebar Brown clothing line...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Sports
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Poetry Foundation names Kenn Nesbitt its children's poet laureate
The Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday that "Revenge of the Lunch Ladies" author Kenn Nesbitt will be its next children's poet laureate, a position the foundation created in 2006 to recognize that "children have a natural receptivity to poetry and are...
Tags: Library of Congress, Poetry, Sports
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Reader Tips: Avoid eye contact with vendors
When getting off a bus at a major tourist attraction in India, forge ahead and try not to make eye contact with the vendors who will swarm you (unless you really want one of those trinkets). Sometimes, the vendor will try to place the object on your body,...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Sports
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Yosemite visitors reflect on deadly mistakes along a fabled trail
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The two sisters boarded the morning bus to the Happy Isles trail head, ice cream cones in hand. For 50 years, their tradition has been to start a day on Mist Trail with some mint chocolate chip. Before they left on...
Tags: Religion and Belief, National Parks, Dwayne Johnson, Yosemite National Park, Sports
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Pooling resources to keep everyone safe in the water
Jerry Huang left his wheelchair at the side of the pool before gliding through more than 400 meters of water at this year's Coast 2 Coast Swim Challenge. From beginners to experts, people of all abilities swam laps to raise money for free swimming lessons...
Tags: Apple iPad, American Academy of Pediatrics, Health and Safety at School, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Conservation
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'Dexter' star opts for a home with killer views in Los Feliz
Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" fame has bought a restored home in Los Feliz for $3.825 million. The updated 1920s Spanish Colonial and guesthouse have killer views of the surrounding hillsides and cityscape. Features include archways, beam ceilings,...
Tags: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Big Miracle (movie), Celebrities, Michael C. Hall, Rodeo
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi buy Montecito mansion
Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, have bought a 13-acre estate in Montecito that had been listed at $26.5 million. The purchase price has not yet appeared in the public record. The restored Tuscan-style villa and...
Tags: Celebrities, Ellen DeGeneres, Banking, Whitney Houston, Ali Landry
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Esther Williams, a 'Bathing Beauty' like no other
Even her dog could swim. That's one of my favorite memories from interviewing swimmer-turned-movie-star Esther Williams at her house in Beverly Hills in 1984. Williams, who died Thursday morning at the age of 91, was delightful talking about her...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Celebrities, Tarzan (movie), Movies, Music
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Esther Williams dies at 91; athletic star of aquatic musicals
The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar. With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the "aqua musical," an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit...
Tags: Celebrities, MGM Inc., Music, Movies, The Washington Post
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Sarah Jessica Parker launching shoe collection with Blahnik exec
Sarah Jessica Parker, who brought the shoe-loving Carrie Bradshaw to life on "Sex and the City," is reverting to type: She is launching a shoe collection in collaboration with George Malkemus, longtime head of Manolo Blahnik. “In a silly way, I...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Sarah Jessica Parker, Consumer Goods Industries, Esther Williams, John Galliano
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Swimming champion, movie star Esther Williams dies
LOS ANGELES -- Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. Williams's died early Thursday in her sleep, according to her longtime...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Celebrities, Pies and Tarts, MGM Inc., Music
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