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'Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion'
Times Art CriticIn the 1980s, Martin Kersels was a performance artist. In the 1990s, he became a performance sculptor. Kersels' sculptures don't look like robots, conventionally conceived by Hollywood and less predictably so in the scientific engineering lab. But in...Tags: Christopher Knight, Christianity, Arts, Furniture, Photography
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Anita Page, MGM actress in early talkies, dies at 98
LOS ANGELES - Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98. Page died in her sleep early Saturday morning at her home in Los...Tags: Jean Harlow, Los Angeles, Joan Crawford, Celebrity Mothers, Movies
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Levittown's Kevin Covais has film debut in 'College'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comThe last time most of us saw Kevin Covais, he was a pale-faced, adorably scrawny 16-year-old running the gauntlet of Simon, Paula and Randy on Fox's " American Idol" in 2006. White scalp shining through a close-cropped buzz, glasses perched on his nose,...Tags: Super Bowl, Vince Vaughn, Movies, Lindsay Lohan, American Idol
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Celebrating the art of clowning
ehulme@am-ny.comWhether it's Ronald McDonald or Pennywise from Stephen King's "It," you probably think you know what clowns are all about. But the theatrical discipline of clowning is so much more than just a wig and a red nose (and, in some cases, psychosis). For...Tags: Blue Man Group, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Ronald McDonald, Festive Event, Bill Irwin
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A jarring look at an earlier entertainment era in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSeventy years ago, on Aug. 20, 1938, The Times published an editorial mourning the death of Thomas K. Heath, one of vaudeville's biggest stars in what is now the largely vanished phenomenon of the minstrel show. Today, the once sensationally popular...Tags: Death and Dying, New York Times, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Minority Groups, Lawrence
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A siren of the silent silver screen
LOS ANGELES — Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98. Ms. Page died in her sleep Saturday at her home in Los...Tags: Los Angeles, Joan Crawford, Movies, Music, Lon Chaney
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Anita Page, silent movie star, dead at 98
From the Associated PressAnita Page, the beautiful blond MGM actress who appeared in the films of Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silents to talkies, has died. She was 98. Page died in her sleep early Saturday morning at her home in Los...Tags: Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Celebrity Mothers, Movies, Lon Chaney
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The List: Art
Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion
That title may be the perfect tongue-in-cheek label for this retrospective of a 6-foot, 7-inch, 350-pound artist who presents himself as a hilariously creative lummox. A fan of Buster Keaton and a student of Paul...Tags: Arts, Giorgio Morandi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Photography
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Anita Page, 97; actress starred in early Oscar-winning movie
Anita Page, who co-starred in "The Broadway Melody," the 1929 film that was the first talking movie to win the best-picture Academy Award, died Saturday at her home in Van Nuys, according to Randal Malone, an actor and longtime friend. She was 98. One of...Tags: Astoria, Cinema Industry, Lon Chaney, Van Nuys, Celebrity
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OFF THE WALL: Some 'Mad Men' and some madcap men
diane@tvworthwatching.comOff the Wall gets all soaped up. WEEKEND MIND-BENDERS. This isn't your kiddo's space opera - there's sharp personal, political and spiritual drama in the too-contemporary fourth season of "Battlestar Galactica" (tonight at 8 and midnight, Universal HD)...Tags: Tammy Wynette, Golf, Movies, Billy Dee Williams, Rue McClanahan
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SCREEN SCENE: Unmasking Chicago actor Danny Goldring
Tribune reporterWho is that masked man? No, not Christian Bale. Not Heath Ledger. No, no. The other unhappy clown. Answer: Chicago actor Danny Goldring. In "The Dark Knight," Goldring shares screen time with Ledger in an opening bank heist sequence. He plays "Grumpy,...Tags: Movies, Matthew Broderick, Christian Bale, Beverly, City Bank
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SCREEN SCENE: Facets turns the clock back 40 years
Facets Cinematheque gears up for an entire week of programming called "40 Years After: Filming the '68 Revolution." Movies on the schedule, which begins Friday, include 1971's "The Murder of Fred Hampton" and Norman Mailer's third film, "Maidstone."...Tags: Cinema Industry, Oliver Stone, George Bush, Crimes, Frank Lloyd Wright
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