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Singer brought zing to big band swing
New York Times News ServiceConnie Haines, a peppy, petite, big-voiced singer with a zippy, rhythmic style who most famously teamed up with Frank Sinatra as lead vocalists with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, then went on to a prolific career of her own, died Monday in Clearwater Beach,...Tags: Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen
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Smaller gyms help exercise social skills
Special to The TimesWHEN IT comes to health clubs, do you prefer the enormous, multilevel variety where you can retain your anonymity even after years of blood, sweat and towels, or do you opt for the small mom-and-pop "Cheers"-type gym where everybody knows your name? A...Tags: Whole Foods Market, Television, Irene Dunne, Celine Dion
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'The Love Guru': No enlightenment, few laughs
Tribune criticIf Richard Attenborough ever follows up his Charlie Chaplin biopic with a project dedicated to cross-eyed wonder Ben Turpin, casting the leading role won't be hard. Ben Kingsley's the man! The strenuous new Mike Myers vehicle "The Love Guru" is all about...Tags: Toronto Maple Leafs, Ben Kingsley, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Charlie Chaplin
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'The Mad Playboy'
The Washington PostWASHINGTON — Will Elder, an early cartoonist for Mad magazine who spent 25 years illustrating Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" strip, which parodied the magazine's fetish for buxom women, died of Parkinson's disease May 15 at the Jewish Home at...Tags: Cartoons, Diseases, Manhattan (New York City), Television Industry, Fanny Brice
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Building history and legend
Newsday Staff WriterLong before anyone dreamed of an automated system for tee times, long before there were cars in which intrepid golfers could sleep while waiting to sign up, Long Island had crowded golf courses. No sooner did the Island Golf Links open to the public in...Tags: Long Island, Bing Crosby, Irving Berlin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, PGA Tour
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Red Buttons Dies at 87
Zap2It.comRed Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...Tags: Religious Leaders, Lower East Side, Jose Ferrer, Jimmy Durante, John Paul II
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This City Was Full of Fight
Times Staff WriterFOR America's big-league sports, L.A. was a distant outpost for the first half of the 20th century, impressive for an off-season vacation, impractical as a home base. Before jet travel, any team moving to the West Coast would have presented a scheduling...Tags: Bob Hope, Physical Fitness, Archie Moore, Television Industry, Wrigley Field
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Oscar Audience Sheds Real Tears — It's Smog
From The Times: March 28, 1957 Last night was the hottest in memory, if not in the 29 years, of any to mark the presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards at Pantages Hollywood Theater. When it was over, so many of the guests...Tags: Ernest Borgnine, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Doris Day, Dorothy Dandridge
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1940s film star Virginia Mayo dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVirginia Mayo, the beautiful blond who rose to movie stardom in the 1940s in comedies opposite Bob Hope and Danny Kaye and had memorable dramatic turns with James Cagney in "White Heat" and Dana Andrews in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died Monday. She...Tags: Jack London, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Wesleyan University, Dana Andrews
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The Medium, the Men, and the Message
Staff WriterTo marvel at numbers that reveal radio to be a vigorous 75-year-old is to overlook the vast array of personalities and formats that have given life to the dial. Here is a purely subjective list of 15 of the medium's more influential figures and...Tags: New York Mets, Long Island, Jack Benny, Adolf Hitler, Television Industry
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From Long Island to Over There
Staff WriterIn the summer of 1917, the largest city on Long Island was created out of 10,000 acres of mosquito-infested scrub oak and pine in central Brookhaven. Not long after the First World War ended, the city disappeared. This was Camp Upton, built in an...Tags: Long Island, Lower East Side, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, New York Times
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Country
Staff WriterIt was the beginning of a decade of Prohibition and apparent prosperity: a time of jazz bands and petting parties, high-stepping flappers and college boys with hip flasks. On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on...Tags: Culture, Religious Leaders, Bing Crosby, Family, Rooms and Sublets
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