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Odetta's voice rumbled deep in our souls
Just below the resonant layers of pain and anguish, hope warmed the mighty voice of Odetta. No matter the song - a century-old spiritual, a lowdown blues number, a mournful folk tune - the Alabama legend used a palette of emotions when she sang. Though...Tags: Civil Rights, Music, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Los Angeles
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Globes' Music Noms Are All About Glamour
"You must make the wood cry," says Armin Mueller-Stahl in "Eastern Promises," giving an impromptu violin lesson to two adoring little girls. With a flourish of bow upon strings, he charms his young proteges, along with visitor Naomi Watts and the...Tags: Johnny Depp, Edith Piaf, Awards and Prizes, Ryan Gosling, Music
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Halle Berry gives birth to baby girl
Halle Berry doesn't just play a mom in movies anymore. The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl Sunday, and "is doing great," her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first child. The father is 32-...Tags: Los Angeles, Oprah Winfrey, Celebrity Mothers, Halle Berry, Celebrity
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Female Oscar hosts
The EnvelopeHilary Clinton is running for president, and Ellen DeGeneres is hosting the Academy Awards. These two things are not exactly equivalent--after all, we've never had a female president, while the Academy Awards has had a female host. One. Whoopi...Tags: Minority Groups, Bette Davis, Rosalind Russell, Elia Kazan, Diseases
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Everyone has secrets!
When a publicist walks into a conference room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and announces, "We have Halle Berry," you feel like you should clap. After all, for the way Berry looks at 40--hell, even if she was 20--we'd be willing to applaud. However, we...Tags: Bruce Willis, Halle Berry, Movies
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View Heights
Special to The TimesWhen I listen to the Louis Armstrong classic "What a Wonderful World," I hear my neighborhood. From my upstairs office window I see what Louis sees: trees of green, skies of blue, "the bright blessed day and dark sacred night." And I hum to myself,...Tags: Ladera Heights, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Carl Franklin, Baldwin Hills
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Oscar Audience Sheds Real Tears — It's Smog
From The Times: March 28, 1957 Last night was the hottest in memory, if not in the 29 years, of any to mark the presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards at Pantages Hollywood Theater. When it was over, so many of the guests...Tags: Anthony Quinn, Doris Day, Kirk Douglas, Mercedes McCambridge, Eva Marie Saint
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"Once on This Island
STAFF WRITERImagine a calypso opera written, say, for Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. No, we're not talking "Carmen Jones." And although there is a French connection to "Once on This Island," there's nothing especially Bizet to Stephen Flaherty's score or Lynn...Tags: Harry Belafonte, Music, Injuries, Music Theater, Theater
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Catwoman
Where you've seen her: You mean, lately? Check the gossip pages and fashion magazine covers. Otherwise, well, where to begin? The Academy Award- winning lead performance in 2001's "Monster's Ball"? Her butt-kicking turn as James Bond's ally in 2002's...Tags: Michelle Pfeiffer, Film Festivals, Denzel Washington, Batman, Julia Roberts
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Need a lift? Go see stars
Special to the TimesWho loves his job more than anyone else in Hollywood? Nicholson? Hefner? Sajak? As I sat in the back of a small, egregiously air-conditioned tour bus one recent Friday afternoon, climbing Foothill Road in Beverly Hills, soaking in a stream of celebrity...Tags: River Phoenix, Heart Disease, West Hollywood, Diseases, Jay Leno
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Entertainers Recall Segregated Strip
The Associated PressIn the darkness of the abandoned showroom, the old man's eyes wince at what time has stolen. Booths that once held adoring crowds, a stage that was host to famous black entertainers. Dust covers them now, a thick layer creating a haunted, musty smell in...Tags: NAACP, Harry Belafonte, Casino and Gambling, Heads of State, Tourism and Leisure
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