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Colorado electro-rappers 3OH!3 play faux-controversial like a dudes version of Katy Perry on "Don't Trust Me" (Photo Finish/Atlantic). Luckily, the club-ready synths and the infectious chorus are so addictive that any sort of taste issues that may arise...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking, Colorado
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Skip the Big Belch with Gay Paree visit
Minnesotans are a humorous people and we are attempting to elect a comedian to the U.S. Senate, which is delicate work, as you might guess. You shouldn't sweep a comedian into office on a wave of public adulation any more than you should let him win the...Tags: Juliette Binoche, Utah, Wyoming, Air France-KLM, Google Inc.
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In memoriam: Deaths in 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to stand atop the world's highest mountain. Dr. Michael DeBakey developed treatments for heart disease that prolonged the lives of millions. Arthur C. Clarke carried readers and movie fans light years into space and...Tags: August (movie), Human Accomplishments, Studs Terkel, Estelle Getty, Bozo the Clown
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Theater figures
Theater figures Lawrence Roman, 86; best known for writing the hit Broadway play "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" and for adapting the farce into the 1963 movie (May 18) Paul Sills, 80; legendary improvisational director and teacher co-founded the Compass...Tags: Theater, Second City, Music Theater, Awards and Prizes, Broadway
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Productions dazzled and provoked the minds this year
Special to The Morning CallThe year 2008 was filled with extravagant and ambitious musicals, provocative classics and controversial Off Broadway dramas. And, as in past years, this list only represents the shows I saw, and my apologies to those productions I missed. MUSICALS 1....Tags: Theater, DeSales University, August Wilson, Lehigh University, Broadway
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Goodbye to Butch Cassidy and others
Of The Associated PressCharleton Heston's powerful screen presence dominated ''The Ten Commandments'' and ''Ben-Hur.'' Paul Newman portrayed lovable rogues in smaller-scale films that reflected changing attitudes toward sex and society. Moses and Michelangelo. Hud, Butch...Tags: Human Accomplishments, Studs Terkel, Estelle Getty, Heath Ledger, Audrey Hepburn
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Books in Brief
Special to The Baltimore SunSongs for the Butcher's Daughter By Peter Manseau Free Press / 370 pages / $25 Peter Manseau's novel creates a Marc Chagall-like world of pathos, humor and enchantment. Beginning in 19th-century Russia and ending in 1990s Baltimore, the plot concerns...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Towson University, Poetry, Johns Hopkins University, Books and Magazines
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William Gibson dies at 94; Tony Award-winning playwright was best known for 'The Miracle Worker'
William Gibson, 94, a Tony Award-winning playwright best known for "The Miracle Worker," the inspirational story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, died Tuesday at his home in Stockbridge, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death....Tags: Theater, Golda Meir, Patty Duke, Arthur Penn, Valerie Harper
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Blind NY governor who laughs at himself hits 'SNL'
David Paterson, as New York's governor, said a "Saturday Night Live" portrayal of him as an aimless bumbler because of his blindness is offensive. The governor's aide called it "ridicule" of disabled people. But those who have watched the sharp-witted...Tags: Sarah Palin, Eliot Spitzer, Local Elections, Government, David Paterson
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The golden director
Special to The Baltimore SunVictor Fleming, An American Movie Master By Michael Sragow Pantheon Books / 656 pages / $40 In filmmaking as in any art, God is in the details. If that's not the point of Michael Sragow's definitive biography of Victor Fleming (1889-1949), it's one of...Tags: Celebrity, Movies, Demographics, Towson University, Cinema Industry
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Deaths elsewhere
WILLIAM GIBSON, 94 'Miracle Worker' playwright William Gibson, a playwright who had a gift for creating strong, popular female characters and wrote The Miracle Worker, died Tuesday in Stockbridge, Mass. First written for television, The Miracle...Tags: Theater, Movies, Anne Bancroft, Arthur Penn, Music Theater
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A royal role for Crawford
A movie that cuts closer to the soul of U.S. politics than most of us would like to admit, Robert Rossen's 1949 All the King's Men (TCM at 4 p.m.) follows the tempestuous career of Louisiana Gov. Will Stark (Broderick Crawford), who exploits his...Tags: Movies, Celebrity, Billy Bob Thornton, Linda Blair, Davy Crockett
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