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2009 postage stamp program commemorate black-and-white TV
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- 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: Thanksgiving, Groucho Marx, Gracie Allen, Justice and Rights, Lucille Ball
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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: Thanksgiving, Groucho Marx, Gracie Allen, Gary Cooper, Los Angeles
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'Dragnet' star gets some help from the LAPD's bug man
Jack Webb was not yet 30 when he came up with the radio show "Dragnet" in 1949. Two years later, he brought it to the fledgling medium of TV, with its memorable dum-da-dum-dum music and opening: "The story you are about to see is true. Only the names...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Police, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Murder, Los Angeles Police Department
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Miss USA scandals and highlights
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKudos to Donald Trump for finding ways to make the Miss USA pageant seem almost relevant again. This year the show (airing tonight on NBC) got a buzz infusion thanks to the selection of Heather Mills as a judge, and (perhaps a little less so) because...Tags: Maryland, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Donald Trump, NBC, Nevada
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Film Festivals, Academy Awards, Fred Zinnemann, Lillian Hellman, Vanessa Redgrave
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Lawyer to Celebrities Is Subject of Inquiry
Times Staff WriterHis name is nowhere in Monday's 60-page indictment of celebrity gumshoe and alleged wiretapper Anthony Pellicano. But the shadow of 76-year-old lawyer Bertram Fields, who for years employed Pellicano as an investigator, looms over the case. Listed...Tags: New York Times, Art Buchwald, Garry Shandling, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Jackson
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'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Times Staff WriterHe didn't call it "J'Accuse!" but he might as well have. Like Emile Zola, whose celebrated 19th century open letter assailed the French government for being a party to intolerable injustice, Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11" has launched an unapologetic...Tags: George Bush, National Government, Wars and Interventions, Florida, Ray Bradbury
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Trouble-ridden comeback of Guns N'Roses scrapped
NEW YORK—When Guns N' Roses announced it was going on tour this fall after a nine-year hiatus, fans of the heavy metal band snapped up tickets. Axl Rose was back and there was talk of a new album. But the comeback has been no "Paradise City." Rose,...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Todd Haynes, Auction Service, Film Festivals, Fiction
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'Spun'
Times Staff WriterBack in the 1980s, musician-hipsters like David Byrne and philosopher-hipsters like Jean Baudrillard just couldn't get enough of the coast-to-coast freak show called the United States. In movies like Byrne's "True Stories" and in books like Baudrillard'...Tags: Addiction, David Byrne, Family, Todd Solondz, Mickey Rourke
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