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'The Mad Playboy'
The Washington PostWASHINGTON — Will Elder, an early cartoonist for Mad magazine who spent 25 years illustrating Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" strip, which parodied the magazine's fetish for buxom women, died of Parkinson's disease May 15 at the Jewish Home at...Tags: Gracie Allen, Hugh Hefner, Washington Post Co., Norman Rockwell, Periodicals
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Smaller gyms help exercise social skills
Special to The TimesWHEN IT comes to health clubs, do you prefer the enormous, multilevel variety where you can retain your anonymity even after years of blood, sweat and towels, or do you opt for the small mom-and-pop "Cheers"-type gym where everybody knows your name? A...Tags: Whole Foods Market, Irene Dunne, Television, Celine Dion
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Movie Review: 'The Love Guru'
If Richard Attenborough ever follows up his Charlie Chaplin biopic with a project dedicated to cross-eyed wonder Ben Turpin, casting the leading role won't be hard. Ben Kingsley's the man! The strenuous new Mike Myers vehicle "The Love Guru" is all about...Tags: Justin Timberlake, Mike Myers, Mariska Hargitay, Jessica Alba, Richard Attenborough
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Building history and legend
Newsday Staff WriterLong before anyone dreamed of an automated system for tee times, long before there were cars in which intrepid golfers could sleep while waiting to sign up, Long Island had crowded golf courses. No sooner did the Island Golf Links open to the public in...Tags: PGA Tour, Babe Ruth, Bill Clinton, Boston Red Sox, All Stars
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Red Buttons Dies at 87
Zap2It.comRed Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...Tags: Music, John Paul II, Moss Hart, Jimmy Durante, George Burns
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This City Was Full of Fight
Times Staff WriterFOR America's big-league sports, L.A. was a distant outpost for the first half of the 20th century, impressive for an off-season vacation, impractical as a home base. Before jet travel, any team moving to the West Coast would have presented a scheduling...Tags: Middleweight Boxing, Featherweight Boxing, Heavyweight, Henry Armstrong, Archie Moore
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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: Dorothy Malone, Mickey Rooney, Janet Gaynor, Jerry Lewis, Academy Awards
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1940s film star Virginia Mayo dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVirginia Mayo, the beautiful blond who rose to movie stardom in the 1940s in comedies opposite Bob Hope and Danny Kaye and had memorable dramatic turns with James Cagney in "White Heat" and Dana Andrews in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died Monday. She...Tags: Music, Broadway, Thousand Oaks, Wesleyan University, Raoul Walsh
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The Medium, the Men, and the Message
Staff WriterTo marvel at numbers that reveal radio to be a vigorous 75-year-old is to overlook the vast array of personalities and formats that have given life to the dial. Here is a purely subjective list of 15 of the medium's more influential figures and...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fred Allen, Don Imus, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals
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From Long Island to Over There
Staff WriterIn the summer of 1917, the largest city on Long Island was created out of 10,000 acres of mosquito-infested scrub oak and pine in central Brookhaven. Not long after the First World War ended, the city disappeared. This was Camp Upton, built in an...Tags: New York Times, Bible, Will Rogers, Firearms, Long Island
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Country
Staff WriterIt was the beginning of a decade of Prohibition and apparent prosperity: a time of jazz bands and petting parties, high-stepping flappers and college boys with hip flasks. On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on...Tags: Music, Population, Long Island, Religious Leaders, Celebrity Mothers
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Growing Up With Subtle Anti-Semitism
Staff WriterDuring his formative years on Long Island, Jack Ain did not experience many blatant incidents of anti-Semitism. Just a few cross-burnings now and then, he says. Growing up in Glen Cove and later in Sea Cliff in the 1920s and 1930s, Ain and his parents,...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Glen Oaks, Christianity, Long Island, Roman Catholic
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