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See Hollywood classics, Patricia Neal on Long Island
daniel.bubbeo@newsday.comSeen any good movies lately? If current films about talking Chihuahuas or saw-wielding killers don't spark reel excitement, here's your ticket to check out some classics from Hollywood's golden past. Picture Show WHERE Bay Street Theatre, Long...Tags: Theater, Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Music Theater, Film Festivals
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'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross
Special to The Times[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...Tags: Theater, Books and Magazines, John Adams, Adolf Hitler, Virgil Thomson
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CLASSICAL MUSIC
The Dude is back! Other season highlights include:
'Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds'
This two-month festival in New York, jointly sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, will open with an all-Bernstein program in Carnegie by...Tags: Theater, Yo-Yo Ma, New Mexico, Music Theater, Diplomacy
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Literary forger tells of her success in humorous memoir
Associated Press"She is a bright, talented actress," Noel Coward once wrote of Julie Andrews, "and quite attractive since she dealt with her monstrous English overbite." Pure Coward—except that it isn't. Banged out on an old Olympia typewriter in 1991, this...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Nora Ephron, Estee Lauder Companies, Louise Brooks, Humphrey Bogart
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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: Books and Magazines, Diseases, Television, Gracie Allen, Manhattan (New York City)
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Building boom gives Hollywood pause
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConstruction cranes hover over Hollywood as the movie industry's historic home undergoes another sweeping -- and sometimes wrenching -- transformation. More than a dozen multimillion-dollar projects have been announced, launched or just completed that...Tags: Theater, Santa Monica, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Condos, Melrose
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'Hollywood Dreams'
Special to The TimesIn "Hollywood Dreams" an aspiring actress seeks stardom, finding rejection, romance, publicity and personal epiphanies along the way. It's the Hollywood fantasy seen through the eyes of writer-director Henry Jaglom, and it's a very mixed bag. When it's...Tags: Justin Kirk, Movies, Iowa
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They're the real thing
The winter feast of movie fools is upon us again, that silly time of the year when we seek order and reason in the Oscar nominations. One might just as well try to make sense of the strange jumble of produce that is growing moss in the fridge. All...Tags: Malcolm X, Judi Dench, Christianity, Truman Capote, Helen Keller
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Hepburn, Streisand Tie for Actress
From The Times: April 15, 1969
A glittering new setting, a vivid new format, a satisfactory quota of surprises and a solid triumph for the solid musical "Oliver" all marked the 41st running of the Academy Awards Monday night.
The first Oscar night to be...Tags: Theater, Stanley Kubrick, Mel Brooks, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Cinema Industry
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'Thanks for the Memory'
Staff WriterBob Hope, the breezy, swaggering, wise-cracking guy whose chiseled silhouette became as familiar to many Americans as the faces on Mount Rushmore, died Sunday at his home in Toluca Lake, Calif., less than two months after his 100th birthday. In a...Tags: Theater, Bill Clinton, California, Culture, Film Festivals
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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: Ring Lardner Jr., Celebrity Mothers, Lewis Allen, Marcel Proust, Scott Fitzgerald
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Halesite
Beginnings: Before the Long Island Rail Road came to Huntington in 1868, the community then known as Huntington Harbor was the town's center of transportation and commerce. Because it took several days to travel overland to New York City, most produce and...Tags: Halesite, Long Island Rail Road, Connecticut, Huntington Bay, Nathan Hale
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