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Battleship Iowa gets a new mission in Hollywood
The battleship Iowa, which once transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a summit with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Tehran, is embarking on a new mission that would include a recurring role in Hollywood.
The 887-foot-long World War II-era...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, James Cameron, U.S. Navy, CSI (tv program), Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Battleship Iowa gets new mission in Hollywood
The famous battleship Iowa, which once transported President Franklin D. Rooseveltto a summit with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Tehran, is embarking on a new mission that would include a recurring role in Hollywood. The 887-foot-long World War...
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, James Cameron, CSI (tv program), Iraq War (2003-2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Jimmy Carter, Howard University, Science and Technology, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Memorial Day: How much do you know about the holiday's history?
Los Angeles Times Travel editorMemorial Day is a day off for many of us, so as you’re lighting the fire and throwing another burger on the grill, consider this quiz, which talks about the meaning of the day. If you get all 10, well, pop open a beverage and have another dog. 1....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Holidays, Grateful Dead (music group), World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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WWII battleship to begin transformation into L.A. museum
The battleship Iowa, a storied vessel that languished for years in the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet, is about to start its final journey, from San Francisco to its permanent home as a museum in the Port of Los Angeles. Next Sunday, four tugboats will guide...
Tags: Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), U.S. Navy, Crowley Maritime Corporation, NATO, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Home theater: Channing Tatum, Tim and Eric top new releases roster
24 FramesChanning Tatum romantic drama 'The Vow' is among the new films coming to VOD and DVD and Blu-ray this week... -
Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHome A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" —...Tags: Toni Morrison
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Festival of Books: Biographers create a vivid portrait of the 20th century
Jacket CopyFor those who didn't go to hear Rodney King's conversation with Patt Morrison (and wait some time for King to show), the best bet for the same 12:30 p.m. time slot Saturday was an L.A. TImes Festival of Books panel...... -
Ulu Grosbard dies at 83; Tony-nominated stage, film director
Ulu Grosbard, a Tony-nominated stage director who also worked in film, directing such movies as "True Confessions" and "The Deep End of the Ocean," died late Sunday or early Monday in New York City, according to his family. He was 83.
During a five-...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Drama (genre), Roman Catholicism, Movies
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Ralph McQuarrie dies at 82; created the look of 'Star Wars'
When director George Lucas hired illustrator Ralph McQuarrie in 1974 to do a series of paintings visualizing scenes from his script for an intergalactic war movie he was trying to sell, McQuarrie liked the concept for the space fantasy. He just didn't...Tags: George Lucas, Fiction, The Empire Strikes Back (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies
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Van Thomas Barfoot dies at 92; WWII hero fought to fly flag at Virginia home
Retired Army Col. Van Thomas Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who later made headlines for his efforts to fly an American flag in his Virginia frontyard, has died. He was 92.
Barfoot, who died March 2 of complications from a fall,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Firearms, U.S. Army, Local Government, White House
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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Polio, Literature, Heart Attack, College Sports, Gainesville
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