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Mid-lip crisis
Special to the TribuneIn the constant upheaval of your life, a few things are unshakeable. Your hydrangeas will never bloom. You make tasty black bean chili. Your lipstick is red. Then suddenly you discover your lips have been living on the San Andreas Fault. You're...Tags: Hansen Natural Corporation, Beauty Products, Metra, CVS Corporation, Beauty Products and Fragrances
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Dolores Deluxe
Special to the SunWant to know what makes Baltimore Baltimore? Look no further than Dolores Deluxe. This ageless beauty has been a fashion designer, a film art director on some of John Waters' earlier movies, a vintage-clothing store owner and floral designer. She now...Tags: John Waters, Movies, Norma Shearer, August, Maryland
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TODAY'S PICKS
MILLION DOLLAR LISTING: HOLLYWOOD (11 p.m., Bravo) - Season premiere: Tonight's episode focuses on "sellers from hell." SMASH LAB (10 p.m., Discovery) - Season premiere: In their first experiment of the new season, Chuck and Gadget devise exterior...Tags: Natalie Wood, Claude Rains, John Wayne, Jeff Lewis, John Ford
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Turner Classic Movies brandishes its star power
Sentinel Television CriticWant to learn what makes a Hollywood star? Turner Classic Movies is giving a crash course with its Summer Under the Stars film festival that runs through August. Each day, the channel devotes 24 hours to an actor. First up is Michael Caine on Friday....Tags: Greer Garson, Marlon Brando, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance, Spencer Tracy
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'Mommie' dies a painful death
Sentinel Theater CriticThink Joan Crawford. Think Bette Davis. Then think them really hard -- because that's what you have to do to get the point of Die, Mommie, Die!, the Joan Crawford/Bette Davis-style campfest at Theatre Downtown. Maybe when playwright Charles Busch...Tags: Celebrity, Theater Downtown, Joan Crawford, Movies, Minority Groups
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Free for all
THURSDAY Family: Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, Chase Promenade, 1, 3 and 5 p.m. Australia's Strange Fruit, a Melbourne-based performing arts company that fuses dance, circus and spectacle theater. Performers perched atop 14-foot...Tags: Dance, Carson McCullers, Wicker Park, Harold Washington, George Sanders
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When phrases pay: Though explosions light the sky, it's words that drive the action
Special to the TribuneAlthough 4th of July weekend movie audiences have long declared their preference for lots of explosions and special effects, the importance of the written word—recall that a beautifully written and bravely signed document kicked off all the hoopla&#...Tags: Jason Robards, Tilda Swinton, Meg Ryan, Frank Capra Jr., Paul Newman
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Reviews are in: B'Way cast recordings
Curious about the changing sound of the Great White Way? Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty weighs in on five noteworthy cast recordings from the year on Broadway -- four from new shows that couldn't be more wildly disparate and one from a classic that'...Tags: Music Industry, Music Theater, San Diego (San Diego, California), Minority Groups, Gore Vidal
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Richard Chamberlain: Nervous in paradise
Richard Chamberlain, a trim and youthful 74, cherry picks his acting assignments these days.
"Working is lovely and not working is lovely," he says.
Chamberlain has called Hawaii home for more than two decades -- he currently lives in Maui -- and when...Tags: Glenda Jackson, Hawaii, Gena Rowlands, Lauren Bacall, NBC
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Boomer TV: Pete Townshend's 63rd
The TV ZonePete Townshend hasn't died before he got old. In fact, today the Who's leader turns 63. Here's a clip from an amazing performance of "My Generation" (complete with instrument-smashing, whadya expect?) from the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" from...Tags: Pete Townshend
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Review: 'A Catered Affair,' by Harvey Fierstein
linda.winer@newsday.comHow bold to make a Broadway musical on such restrained material as "A Catered Affair." How sad that the results are so glum. Despite the dedication of a fine cast, including Faith Prince, Tom Wopat and author Harvey Fierstein, this is a colorless...Tags: Music Theater, John Doyle, Ernest Borgnine, Alfred Hitchcock, Gore Vidal
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This 'Affair' is love
robert.kahn@newsday.com'Nazis!" Harvey Fierstein spits out the word and leans back in a folding chair. Under discussion is "The Sound of Music," and how, in Harvey-speak, "it ain't just about some girl on a hill." "There ... were ... Nazis!" he repeats. "You weren't there...Tags: Robin Williams, Jerry Herman, Music Theater, Ernest Borgnine, John Doyle
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