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Today's Celebrity Birthdays
Actor Alan Young is 89. Talk show host Larry King is 75. Talk show host Dick Cavett is 72. Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner is 70. Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) is 69. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is 69. TV journalist Garrick...Tags: Kathleen Quinlan, Jason Scott Lee, Rhythm and Blues, Robert Beltran, Tom Harkin
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Concerts After Hartford Basketball
The Hartford CourantThe University of Harford men's basketball team was one game away from the NCAA Tournament last season and is picked third in the America East this season. That means it is becoming known for playing the game. More than 20 years ago, after the Hawks...Tags: University of Connecticut, Kenny Rogers, NCAA Tournament, Dionne Warwick, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Romance could be catching
The picture captures a refreshing image of tenderness. There's Barack Obama, moments after delivering his acceptance speech for president of the United States. His arm is wrapped around the waist of his wife, soon-to-be first lady Michelle. Their eyes are...Tags: Charlie Parker, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rhythm and Blues, Bill Cosby
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Jheryl Busby dies at 59; music executive led revival of Motown Records
Jheryl Busby, a music executive who led a revival of Motown Records while president and chief executive of the company from 1988 to 1995, was found dead Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu. He was 59. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Jheryl...Tags: Sales, Patti LaBelle, Washington Post Company, Government, Rhythm and Blues
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Four Tops lead singer Stubbs dies at 72
DETROIT Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose dynamic and emotive voice drove such Motown classics as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" and "Baby I Need Your Loving," died yesterday at 72. He had been ill recently and died in his sleep at the Detroit house he... -
'Able Danger,' 'Fear(s) of the Dark,' 'Just Buried,' 'Little Big Top' and 'Splinter'
Since film noir's shadowy dread reflected a genuine post-World War II existential unease, it makes some sense that a movie about post-9/11 conspiracy theorists would boast a faux-noir style, as if the term had quotation marks around it.
But "Able Danger"...Tags: Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Behavioral Conditions, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), West Hollywood
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Motown legends send off Four Tops' Stubbs
The Associated PressThe Associated Press DETROIT—A man called by some in the Motown family the "greatest lead singer ever" has been laid to rest in the city where he and three friends harmonized their way to stardom. Funeral services were held Monday in Detroit for...Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cancer, Diseases, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye
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Four Tops' raw, boundless Levi Stubbs
Chicago Tribune critic"She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case/When the world falls apart some things stay in place/Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face." —Billy Bragg, "Levi Stubbs' Tears" Bragg's 1986 homage was just one small measure of how...Tags: Billy Bragg, Marvin Gaye
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Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs, frontman of the Four Tops, died Friday at 72. Stubbs, whose dynamic and emotive voice drove such Motown classics as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" and "Baby I Need Your Loving," had been ill recently and died in his sleep at the Detroit house...Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cancer, Rock and Roll, Diseases, Death and Dying
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Singer is in the Thicke of things
This time, Robin Thicke didn't want to be just the hopeless romantic who's lost in love inside his head.
On his new album, Something Else, the R&B-pop singer-songwriter doesn't exactly abandon the yearning balladry that catapulted him to the top of the...Tags: Boz Scaggs, Beyonce, Classical Music, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Marvin Gaye
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Connie Haines dies at 87; big band singer co-starred with Sinatra
Special to The TimesConnie Haines, a petite and dynamic big band singer who performed alongside Frank Sinatra in the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras, died Monday in Clearwater, Fla. The cause of death was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease. She...Tags: Paul Whiteman, Jane Russell, Tommy Dorsey, Perry Como, Milton Berle
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Norman Whitfield
Norman Whitfield, the songwriter and producer who co-wrote many Motown classics, has died. Whitfield, who had worked on "War," "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," was 67. A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai...Tags: Values, Human Accomplishments, Marvin Gaye, Jim Miller, Popular Music
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