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Steve McQueen was a pilot, not a celebrity, at Santa Paula Airport
One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly.
Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living with his girlfriend in a hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane. In the evening, the tough-guy...Tags: Diseases, Steve McQueen, Motorcycling, Emergency Planning, Leonard Nimoy
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Election movie winners
Is it Tuesday yet? Even the most patriotic of us might be feeling election fatigue this week. Campaigns generally are messy affairs, with stories that keep changing and endings that never seem to come, and the Obama-McCain battle has been no different....Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Michael Ritchie, Gore Vidal, Netflix Inc., Martin Sheen
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'W' a prime candidate for Oliver Stone
Special to NewsdayFor the first 113 of the 232 years that a United States of America has existed, there wasn't anything called cinema. So movies about Washington, Lincoln or the peccadilloes of Grover Cleveland weren't really an option -- not, at least, while the men...Tags: George Bush, United States of America, Dick Cheney, Ellen Burstyn, Gore Vidal
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Initial take on 'W.' is a balanced look at Bush
NewsdayFor the first 113 of the 232 years that a United States of America has existed, there wasn't anything called cinema. So movies about Washington, Lincoln or the peccadilloes of Grover Cleveland weren't really an option — not, at least, while the...Tags: George Bush, Government, Dick Cheney, United States of America, Ellen Burstyn
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Edie Adams dies at 81; Tony award-winning actress
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEdie Adams, the Tony award-winning actress and singer who was perhaps best known to a generation of television viewers as the seductive commercial spokeswoman for Muriel Cigars, has died. She was 81. Adams, the widow of the legendary comedian Ernie...Tags: Cartoons, Ernie Kovacs, Theater, Texas, Los Angeles
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Tribute to Newman from Hollywood and beyond
•"Paul Newman played many unforgettable roles. But the ones for which he was proudest never had top billing on the marquee: Devoted husband. Loving father. Adoring grandfather. Dedicated philanthropist. Our father was a rare symbol of selfless...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, David Letterman, Charity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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'Rent' spent
They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung. Broadway said goodbye Sunday to Rent, 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages....Tags: Music Theater, Michael Buble, Music, Theater, Hugh Grant
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Alan Inkles, man behind Stony Brook Film Festival
gene.seymour@newsday.comThese days, when he's not booking eclectic acts ranging from the Emerson String Quartet to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to guerrilla comic Sandra Bernhard to appear at Stony Brook University's Staller Center, Alan Inkles, the center's director, gets...Tags: D.B. Sweeney, Festive Event, Sandra Bernhard, Los Angeles, Stony Brook University
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Mice get smarter with drug
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome got smarter after being fed a drug that strengthened brain circuits involved in learning and memory, researchers reported Sunday. After receiving once-daily doses of pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, for 17...Tags: Diseases, Research, Movies, Medical Research, Health Organizations
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Long shots, sharp shooters and sneak attacks
Julie Christie, the certified icon and 1965 Oscar winner, has been in town making the awards season rounds thanks to her starring turn in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her."
The notoriously press shy actress turned up for a few Q&As, with co-star Gordon...Tags: Elections, Charlton Heston, Sigourney Weaver, David Fincher, Juliette Binoche
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Some real eye-openers
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation is at it again. Taking over the James Bridges Theater in the campus' Melnitz Hall today through Aug. 19, the 13th preservation event is once more showing the widest and most exciting variety of...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Claudette Colbert, Martin Scorsese, Festive Event, Theater
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Crossing This Line Could Cost Gibson Deals
Zap2It.comMel Gibson is rich enough to finance his own movies, including the 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" and the upcoming release "Apocalypto." But although riches can buy a certain freedom from creative interference, no man is an island in the...Tags: Abraham Cooper, George Bush, Civil Unrest, Consumer Electronics Industry, Mel Gibson
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