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Page Cavanaugh: Jazz pianist and part of popular music trio
Associated PressAssociated Press LOS ANGELES — Jazz pianist and singer Page Cavanaugh, whose popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on Frank Sinatra's radio show, has died at 86. Mr. Cavanaugh died of kidney failure Dec. 19 at a...Tags: Popular Music, Bars and Clubs, Frank Sinatra, Dining and Drinking, San Fernando
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' Yes Man' stars Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Terence Stamp
Tribune criticThe director Peyton Reed is used to working in italics. His "Down With Love" (2003) was an entirely italicized movie, reworking the plot mechanics and arch visual strategies of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the late 1950s and early '60s, along...Tags: Movies, Jim Carrey, Employees, Zooey Deschanel, Celebrity
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Pop music and jazz figures
Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6)...Tags: Minority Groups, Glenn Miller, Hip Hop, Emmy Awards, Jay-Z
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Yes, yes, a thousand times 'Yes Man'
Director Peyton Reed is used to working in italics. His "Down With Love" (2003) was an entirely italicized movie, reworking the plot mechanics and arch visual strategies of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the late 1950s and early '60s. It turned...Tags: Movies, Jim Carrey, Employees, Zooey Deschanel, Celebrity
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Paintings give voice to an intriguing tale
Special to the SentinelNarrative painting is not merely out of fashion in today's art world -- it's nearly forgotten as artistic possibility. Critic Hilton Kramer wrote a quarter-century ago that "an imminent return to narrative painting" has been often announced and...Tags: Painting, Winter Park, Movies, Fiction, North Carolina
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Karen Mason returns with gutsy abandon
Tribune criticTen years ago, a charismatic former Chicagoan brought a touch of glamour to a start-up Chicago cabaret. On Tuesday night, Karen Mason returned to Davenport's, marking an anniversary that few such rooms live long enough to celebrate. In the last decade,...Tags: Startups, Water Tower Place, Maria Callas, Bill Clinton
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Ray Ellis dies at 85; arranger worked with Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, scores of others
Ray Ellis, the versatile pop music arranger who wrote the charts for hits by the Four Lads, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Doris Day and Johnny Mathis, has died. He was 85.
Ellis, a longtime resident of Ojai, died Oct. 27 of liver cancer at an assisted-...Tags: Death and Dying, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Connie Francis
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New on DVD: 'Hancock'; 'Fred Claus'
Hancock Sony, $28.96/$34.95; Blu-ray, $39.95
In the summer of "Iron Man" and “The Dark Knight,” the decidedly rattier "Hancock" came off as something of an also-ran, though in its own way, this offbeat, ground-level adventure was every bit as...Tags: Peter Berg, Movies, Hancock (movie), NASA, Will Smith
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Mamma mia! Movie lovers can fill MP3s with the hits
Special to the Chicago TribuneBlockbuster season may be winding down, but the soundtrack for one of this summer's movies has scaled the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart as it ends. The never-going-to-let-you-go " Mamma Mia!" is the first soundtrack to claim the top spot since...Tags: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Jennifer Hudson, Movies, Wanted (movie), Music Industry
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David Kaufman's "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door"
Tribune NewspapersSteve Carell doesn't have a copyright on playing the 40-year-old virgin. That's a role Doris Day, at age 40, was still playing on-screen when she made "That Touch of Mink" with Cary Grant in 1962. In that sex farce, Day was the unsullied working-class...Tags: Movies, Celebrity Mothers, Cinderella, Cancer, Road Accidents
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George Putnam, longtime L.A. newsman, dies at 94
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGeorge Putnam, the pioneer television news anchorman and conservative commentator whose distinctive stentorian voice was familiar to millions of Southern Californians during his heyday in the 1950s and '60s, died today. He was 94. Putnam, who had been... -
TV ON DVD: A fairy godmother, soul's godfather
Faerie Tale Theatre Series Shelley Duvall's fanciful 1980s gem attracted directors like Tim Burton and Francis Ford Coppola, and such stars as Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Helen Mirren. But it aired on (then-small)...Tags: Billy Crystal, Liza Minnelli, Robin Williams, Tim Burton, Tommy Lee Jones
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