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Wednesday/4 400 years of musical Virginianna--Recording artist Bob Zentz and friends journey through the music of the Old Dominion, from colony to commonwealth. 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. at the Hennage Auditorium, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. $3 per...Tags: History, Metal and Mineral, Christianity, Baptist, National Government
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Movie review: 'Inland Empire'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) People always say things like, "That's strange enough to be a David Lynch film." The dreamlike current of his visions cannot be ignored. Yet anyone whose greatest achievements--"Eraserhead" (1977), "Blue Velvet" (1986) and...Tags: Randy Newman, David Lynch, Jeremy Irons, Sony Corp., Celebrity
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Backstage confidential
If you want to hear true awards show dish, ask the stage managers.
They're not in the public eye, their credits go by quickly on-screen, and they're only on camera when things go wrong. But these crucial crew members — a handful of them on...Tags: Luther Vandross, Awards and Prizes, P. Diddy, Barbara Stanwyck, Tom Hanks
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And the loser is...
The EnvelopeNo one is likely to mention Allan Carr from the stage of the Kodak Theatre tonight. If the 77th annual Academy Awards ceremony includes a film montage of previous shows, chances are that the one he produced won't be among them. But make no mistake, he...Tags: Michael Caine, Gregory Peck, Film Festivals, Awards and Prizes, Tyrone Power Sr.
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Celebrity hijinks on the links were a matter of course
Times Staff WriterThe sycamore that guards the 12th green at Riviera Country Club? That's where Humphrey Bogart used to sit with a trench coat and a thermos -- contents undetermined -- to watch players go by. Some people still refer to the spot as "Bogart's tree," so with...Tags: Don Rickles, Mae West, Golf, Howard Hughes, Movies
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Recipe: Dorothy Lamour's cantaloupe salad
Total time: 40 minutes Servings: 4 Note: In effect, this is a Waldorf salad with the addition of diced cantaloupe and fresh peaches, with our updated vinaigrette. From "282 Ways to Make a Salad," by Bebe Daniels and Jill Allgood (1950). 1 cup diced... -
Catching a new wave
Special to The TimesForty years ago, when he was all of 23, Miller Fong sketched a chair on an envelope and mailed it to his father in Hong Kong, where the family manufactured rattan and wicker furniture for its Los Angeles company, Tropi-Cal. The finished product —...Tags: Jimmy Buffett, Metal and Mineral, Museum of Modern Art, Barbra Streisand, Consumer Electronics Industry
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'Thanks for the Memory'
Staff WriterBob Hope, the breezy, swaggering, wise-cracking guy whose chiseled silhouette became as familiar to many Americans as the faces on Mount Rushmore, died Sunday at his home in Toluca Lake, Calif., less than two months after his 100th birthday. In a...Tags: Film Festivals, Awards and Prizes, George Bush, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Al Hirschfeld
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The Road to Film Success
Staff WriterOne would think that, for someone who dominated 20th century entertainment, Bob Hope would be regarded as a major movie comedian. Yet Hope's vast legacy takes up far more space on vaudeville, radio and television than on the big screen. It may be that...Tags: Academy Awards, W.C. Fields, Film Festivals, Paramount, Charlie Chaplin
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Vaudeville's ambassador
Special to The TimesBob Hope used to say that television was vaudeville in a box. He loved to talk about his vaudeville days: "You put together your act and there were enough theaters, in and around New York, you could play it for a year, and another year on the road—...Tags: Academy Awards, Film Festivals, Awards and Prizes, Broadway, Paramount
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His films paved road to laughter
Special to The TimesIn his 20 appearances as host of the Academy Awards, Bob Hope got considerable comic mileage out of his supposed shortcomings as a movie star. "Welcome to the Academy Awards," he addressed the audience one year. "Or as it's known in my house, Passover."...Tags: W.C. Fields, Academy Awards, Paulette Goddard, Film Festivals, Awards and Prizes
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The Master of the One-Liner
Times Staff WriterBob Hope, the elder statesman of comedy whose extraordinary career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies, books and makeshift concert platforms in war zones, has died. He was 100. Hope died at 9:28 p.m. Sunday at his home in Toluca...Tags: George Bush, Major League Baseball, Cleveland Indians, Executive Branch, Saddam Hussein
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