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    Dec 29, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. 2009 postage stamp program commemorate black-and-white TV

    Associated Press
    WASHINGTON -- Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck. Folks who grew up as television came of age will delight in...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Groucho Marx, Justice and Rights, Alfred Hitchcock, Maryland

    2. Dec 30, 2008 |Story| Newsday

  2. 2009 stamp sets to feature old TV shows, other topics

    Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck. Folks who grew up as television came of age will delight in a 20-stamp set...

    Tags: I Love Lucy (tv program), Groucho Marx, Alaska, Los Angeles, Thanksgiving

    3. Dec 18, 2008 |Story| Hartford Courant

  3. Bits And Pieces From Burns, Allen, Benny On Big Screen

    The Silver Screen Classics series, which shows classic movies on Monday afternoons at National Amusements cinemas nationwide, is presenting a unique offering this week. Instead of a movie, viewers can see clips from classic old TV shows. "The George...

    Tags: George Burns, Southington, Movies, Meriden, Jack Benny

    4. Nov 7, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Los Angeles Comedy Festival begins tonight

    Funny doesn't discriminate.
    Funny doesn't discriminate. At least, that's the philosophy that prompted Lawrin Goulston Salazar and her husband to launch the Los Angeles Comedy Festival last year. The "all-inclusive" biannual event is a sort of comedy smorgasbord featuring improv,...

    Tags: Whole Foods Market, Los Angeles, NBC, Texas, Britney Spears

    5. Sep 6, 2008 |Story| RedEye

  5. Make us laugh

    For RedEye
    While some might spend the final five minutes before hosting a comedy show running through their material or pacing around offstage, Beth Stelling was too busy getting a hug. Fellow comedian Kat Herskovic had just given Stelling a red floral print dress...

    Tags: Eddie Murphy, Second City, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Ohio, Starbucks Corp.

    6. May 18, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'The Mad Playboy'

    WASHINGTON — 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 Rockleigh, N.J. He was 86.
    The Washington Post
    WASHINGTON — 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: Schools, Periodicals, Eddie Cantor, Television, Washington Post Co.

    7. Jan 11, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Trocks delve into broad message

    Tribune arts critic
    The term in dance is travesty, or, in ballet parlance, en travesti. Today, when men dress as women, we're more likely to call it drag. But there's a long, cherished, respectable tradition in choreographic history. In the 20th Century, travesty in dance...

    Tags: George Balanchine, Cinderella, Dancing, Dance, Lucille Ball

    8. Nov 6, 2007 |Story| KWGN-TV
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    Tags: Colorado, New York Stock Exchange, Television Industry, Diseases, Cancer

    9. May 31, 2006 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Wounded reporter recalled as 'focused' by school officials

    Sun Reporters
    As a teenager at St. Timothy's School, Kimberly Dozier developed an appreciation for history and a talent for writing. She hammered nails and painted sets for school plays, and sang opera. And when she took a stick to the face during a lacrosse game, she...

    Tags: Human Rights, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), CBS Corp., Maryland, Armed Conflicts

    10. Aug 27, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Tooting the Horn for `All-Girl' Band Leader, 101

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Indomitable saxophonist Peggy Gilbert got the beat back in the 1920s, when Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and the Kansas City Nighthawks were wowing Jazz Age dance crowds. She was still blowing a hot tenor sax in 1981 on Johnny...

    Tags: Johnny Carson, Music Industry, Movies, Lily Tomlin, Clothing and Textiles Industry

    11. Aug 2, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. They Never Won an Emmy

    The Envelope
    Here's a mystery even supersleuth Jessica Fletcher couldn't solve: why is one of TV's most popular stars -- Angela Lansbury -- the biggest loser in the history of TV's highest honor? Lansbury has lost as many Emmy Award nominations in primetime as Susan...

    Tags: Movies, Tony Danza, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Noah Wyle

    12. Dec 16, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Red Riding Hood gets smart edge

    Times Staff Writer
    "Hoodwinked" is an irreverent, hard-edged retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" — a high-energy, imaginative entertainment aimed at younger audiences. Replete with the violence typical of vintage cartoons, it opens in time-honored fashion with...

    Tags: David Arquette, Frank Gorshin, Music Industry, Movies, Rodney Dangerfield

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