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Swap Edith? Are youse crazy?
Swingers in the 1970s? On CBS? Been there, done that. WHAT: The Oct. 28, 1972 episode of "All in the Family," titled "The Bunkers and the Swingers." RECAP: To expand her social life, Edith (Jean Stapleton) answers an ad in the "swap section" of a...Tags: CBS Corp., Rue McClanahan
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MOVIES
BASIC CABLE "RETURN TO ME" *** 7 p.m., AMC A top-notch cast and a unusual though improbable premise make this 2000 romance a cut above your standard tear-jerker. Bonnie Hunt does more than her share of duty as co-star and co-writer, and David...Tags: Bonnie Hunt, Minnie Driver, Movies, David Duchovny
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Majors, mysteries on list of TV icons
It doesn't take a psychic in a bejeweled turban to figure out that Johnny Carson landed the top spot. But deeper down the ranking of "The 50 Greatest TV Icons," you may find a name that surprises you (or even makes you scratch your head). Which is part of...Tags: Larry Hagman, Oprah Winfrey, Jackie Gleason, Bob Newhart, Johnny Carson
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The right accents
Times Staff WriterWHEN veteran Irish stage and film actor Fionnula Flanagan met with producers and writers of Showtime's "Brotherhood" to discuss her portrayal of the Irish-born working class matriarch of the show, Rose Caffee, one of the first questions she asked the...Tags: Television, Roman Catholic, Television Industry, Theater, Organized Crime
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He drives a hard bargain for the studios
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor 25 years, Hollywood's biggest studios have relied on a bespectacled former college halfback to make peace with their workers. In overseeing some 400 labor contracts with writers, actors, film crews, musicians and scores of other professions, J....Tags: Television, Celebrity, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Labor Legislation
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A heart attack avoided
STAFF WRITERFormer President Bill Clinton was described as doing well Tuesday and breathing on his own after he underwent more than four hours of quadruple bypass surgery yesterday, a procedure his surgeons said averted a potential heart attack caused by severe...Tags: Government, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Therapies, Johnny Carson
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'Hitch' Steals Golden Globe Awards Show
From The Times: Feb. 8, 1972
"To be a director, you simply say to an actor — COME IN THAT DOOR, and walk across the middle of the room. "And then you say to the actress — come in this room and walk across to the middle of the room. "You tell the...Tags: Television, Mass Media, Celebrity, Jack Jones, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Studio-Era Director Sherman Dies at 99
Vincent Sherman, who directed Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn during their 1940s heyday at Warner Bros. and was one of the last surviving studio-era contract directors, has died. He was 99. Sherman died Sunday night of natural causes at...Tags: Television, Death and Dying, Clifford Odets, Paul Muni, Celebrity
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Forest Hills
Staff WriterBefore it was a model garden development or the site of a world-famous tennis club, Forest Hills in 1652 apparently looked like a dry river bed left behind by the glaciers that formed Long Island. The Dutch called the area Whiteput, meaning pit. The...Tags: U.S. Open Tennis, Homes, Helen Keller, Long Island Rail Road, Lou Costello
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Actor Art Carney dead at 85
Los Angeles Times staff writerArt Carney, who won a best actor Oscar for "Harry and Tonto" and originated the role of fussy Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason's lovable sewer worker pal Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died....Tags: Television, Barnard Hughes, Death and Dying, Art Carney, Dustin Hoffman
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