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Everyone needs some Wayne Newton
Tribune reporterThe Wayne is in the house. The King of Las Vegas will be, for a night, the King of Hammond (or is he still the King of Las Vegas, in the way that Queen of England is always thus, wherever she is? But we digress.). A little bit of the Strip rolls into...Tags: Wayne Newton, Jackie Gleason, Dancing, National Lampoon Incorporated, Television Industry
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Do you see what we see?
Special to NewsdayChristmas has come a long way from those primitive days of yore. And I don't mean 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem. I mean 20 years back on the tube. When Newsday ran my first column saluting a TV Christmas, collating the episodes was no biggie. Call a few...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Satellite and Cable Service, Movies, Religious Festivals, Cartoons
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Purse strings tighten at Bob Baker's Marionette Theater
From the outside, the low-slung, white concrete building huddled underneath the Beverly Boulevard bridge looked like any other building in its industrial area just west of downtown, adorned with razor wire and a forbidding exterior.
Inside, as an elderly...Tags: Star Trek (movie), Internal Revenue Service, Theater, Mortgages, Dancing
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Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax display wit, virtuosity in L.A. program
Music CriticManny and Fima are a couple of very well-liked guys who live in the same building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They come from the same part of the world and from countries that begin with the letter U: Manny was born in Ukraine, Fima in what is...Tags: Los Angeles, Manhattan (New York City), Walt Disney, Upper West Side, New York
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The top 25 football rankings
++++++++++++++++++++ || || || Rk. || SCHOOL || COMMENT (LAST WEEK) || || 1 || L.B. POLY (9-0, SS-Pac-5) || This seems like as good a week as any to make a change at the top. (2) || || 2 || COR. CENTENNIAL (9-0, SS-Inland) || Huskies fall in part...Tags: Bob Johnson, Natural Resources, Schools, Academic Progress, Football
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Review: 'To Be or Not to Be' on Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.com"To be or not to be" is not the question. Why? Now that's the question. The Manhattan Theatre Club has laboriously put together a pointless stage version of "To Be or Not To Be," the backstage Nazi-spy farce about a Polish theater company oppressed by...Tags: Ernst Lubitsch, Broadway, Theater, Music Theater, Manhattan (New York City)
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Tried and true shows dominate the season's Broadway offerings
linda.winer@newsday.comIt could be the best of times; it might be the worst of times. No, really. A musical adaptation of"A Tale of Two Cities" - think "Les Miz" by way of Charles Dickens - kicks off the hectic and ambitious fall season in a couple of weeks. More to the point,...Tags: John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton, Tom Cruise, Robert Bolt, Harry Potter
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The Hollywood Palladium gets a second wind
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSIXTY-EIGHT years ago this month, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and its new singer, a skinny 24-year-old New Jersey crooner named Frank Sinatra, welcomed a cheering crowd to opening night at the Hollywood Palladium. Dorothy Lamour was there to snip the...Tags: Spencer Tracy, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, Christmas
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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: Fred Allen, Dancing, Tommy Dorsey, Milton Berle, Bing Crosby
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Same old thing on Broadway?
The Associated PressWhere have all the new plays gone? On Broadway this fall, it will be a lonely pair -- To Be or Not to Be and Dividing the Estate -- that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry revivals such as Equus and All My Sons. To Be or Not to Be...Tags: John Lithgow, Madonna, Music Theater, Horton Foote, Values
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The case against a federal bailout
The late comedian Jack Benny made a career of claiming to be a cheapskate. In one joke, a robber accosted him and said: "Your money or your life." Getting no response, the thug repeated his demand. Benny replied, "I'm thinking about it!" That's the...Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve
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Oscar takes note of gender benders
Gender-bender acting has been going on since the earliest days of theater, when women were forbidden to appear on stage and female roles were played by men. And many a famous performer has attempted to play someone of the opposite sex. Katharine Hepburn...Tags: Celebrity, Cinema Industry, Alec Guinness, Movies, Cate Blanchett
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