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New in paperback: : Getting personal
"The Journals of John Cheever" edited by Robert Gottlieb (Vintage) "Good Friday. I neither fast nor make any observations of this somber time. I roam from the post office to the church, unsober. The central altar is dark, but on the left the priest has...Tags: Christianity, Depression, Poetry, John Steinbeck, Graydon Carter
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'Postman' still delivers
Good guys gone bad and bad gals gone worse, claustrophobic cityscapes and never-ending nights, unsuspecting patsies and moral compasses gone hopelessly astray: Such is the world of film noir, that dense, gloomy cinematic genre that became all the rage...Tags: Quantum of Solace (movie), Pierce Brosnan, World War II, Movies, Famke Janssen
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They're carrying a torch for tiki
If the words "tiki culture" conjure images of rum drinks the color of windshield wiper fluid, dusty tribal masks and low-rent bamboo-backed bars, hold on to your paper parasol because there's a new trade wind blowing. What was once dismissed as "tacky...Tags: Country Music, Witco Corporation, Charlie Chaplin, Bars and Clubs, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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SAG feuds -- and the producers wait
Turner Classic Movies recently showed "Honky Tonk," a so-so 1941 movie starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. What struck me more than the movie, actually, was the vintage theatrical trailer that aired with it, highlighting not just the stars but "a star-...Tags: Television Industry, August (movie), Celebrity, Clark Gable, Elections
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Starmakers
By Robin Blaetz Fairly early in her new book about the manufacture of movie stars in Hollywood's classical period, Jeanine Basinger confesses she was an usher in a movie theater for a decade after World War II. This fact, rather than the knowledge...Tags: Books and Magazines, Deanna Durbin, Errol Flynn, Carmen Miranda, Joan Crawford
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Universal with grown-up appeal
Tribune reporterThe official name is Universal Orlando Resort. That's marketing for you. Here's what it is: Two amusement parks (Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure) with overlapping themes and missions -- which park has Barney and which park...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Downtown Disney, Video Games, Lucille Ball, Superman
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Orlando is fun for grown-ups, too!
The Chicago TribuneThe official name is Universal Orlando Resort. That's marketing for you. Here's what it is: two amusement parks ( Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure) with overlapping themes and missions - which park has Barney and which...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Downtown Disney, Video Games, Lucille Ball, Superman
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Mare Winningham, deep in the heart of Tennessee
Special to The Times"MAYBE I shouldn't say this, but so often during the last 30 years, you're trying to make something better than it is," actress Mare Winningham confides. "You're trying to find richness where there isn't any. You're trying to find complexity where there...Tags: Children, Family, Georgia, Celebrity, Music Industry
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Hollywood: Being an extra where the action is
peggy.brown@newsday.comHey, there's Will Ferrell on the basketball court! About as far away as the height of his giant "Elf" ... closer than a car length for his racing legend Ricky Bobby. He's so close that we could scamper down the bleachers and shoot hoops with him in the...Tags: Justice System, California Pizza Kitchen Incorporated, Bruce Willis, Celebrity, Woody Harrelson
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Can I be a soft-core porn star?
I ALWAYS WONDERED how much my soul was worth. So when Cinemax asked me if I'd go on camera to interview soft-core porn stars on the set of its new series, "Sin City Diaries," in return for $2,000 and a free night in Las Vegas, I discovered that my soul...Tags: Family, Vanessa Williams, Movies, John Quinn, Los Angeles
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Girl talk
Special to NewsdayIn Italy's new land of make-believe, there are clothes for Mods, disco queens, girly girls, Las Vegas showgirls, space travelers, drag queens and strippers. Something for everyone, yes? Alas, Milan's "everyone" does not include the working woman or...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Karl Lagerfeld, Carmen Miranda, Metal and Mineral
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The Hottest Property
Times Staff Writer1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...Tags: Park La Brea, Duke Ellington, Whittier, National Government, Frank Lloyd Wright
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