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At Coney Island, tension over rebuilding plan
Associated Press WriterThe Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: Crowds line the boardwalk to watch the hot-dog eating contest, visitors take terrifying roller coaster rides, and beachgoers frolic in the sand and...Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Fourth of July
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Tension builds over Coney Island rebuilding plan
Associated Press WriterThe Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: Crowds line the boardwalk to watch the hot-dog eating contest, visitors take terrifying roller coaster rides, and beachgoers frolic in the sand and...Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Fourth of July
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'Personal Days' by Ed Park
Personal Days
A Novel
Ed Park
Random House: 246 pp., $13 paper
The modern corporate office is to Ed Park's debut novel "Personal Days" what World War II was to Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" -- a theater of absurdity and injustice so profound as to defy...Tags: Reviews, Manhattan, Book, Literature, Employees
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'War, Inc.' stars John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei and Ben Kingsley
Tribune criticHere's the opening crawl for "War, Inc.," a mordant unofficial sequel to "Grosse Pointe Blank" reuniting John Cusack with an assassin's gun. "In the 21st century, great corporations will bestride the earth, replacing nations as the true creators of...Tags: Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Movies, Hilary Duff, Britney Spears
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Who's on first? For '64 Phils, nine were
Q: I grew up listening to almost every game the 1964 Phillies played, so I was caught off-guard when a friend told me they used nine first basemen that season. I remember John Herrnstein, Roy Sievers and Frank Thomas. After that, I'm stumped. Brad...Tags: Jason Kendall, New York Mets, Roger Bresnahan, American League, Major League Baseball
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Chris Erskine: May their marriage outshine this toast
Man of the HouseAND I THOUGHT last week's party for 80 teenagers was bad (it was). Now I'm hosting a party for 30 adults. Each week, the celebrations get smaller, more polished, more demanding. "Did you get the ice?" Posh asks. "Check." "Is the music ready to go?"...Tags: Harvey Korman, Mrs. O'Leary, Family, Beverage Industry, Hawaii
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On this day in history
On May 1, 1707, a union between England and Scotland was formed, and it was named Britain. In 1786 Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna. In 1893 President Grover Cleveland opened the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's...Tags: Chicago White Sox, National Government, Wilmette, New York City, Texas
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Speed Vogel, 90; co-wrote bestselling memoir about his friendship with author Joseph Heller
From a Times Staff WriterApril 22, 2008 Speed Vogel, who turned his friendship with novelist Joseph Heller into a bestselling memoir, "No Laughing Matter," died April 14 of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90. The 1986 memoir, co-written with Heller, tells...Tags: Mel Brooks, Rock and Roll Music, Phil Silvers, Diseases, New York City
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'The Drop Edge of Yonder' by Rudolph Wurlitzer
The Drop Edge of Yonder
A Novel
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Two Dollar Radio: 276 pp., $15 paper
Rudolph Wurlitzer is best known as a screenwriter ("Two-Lane Blacktop," "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," "Little Buddha"), but in the late 1960s and early 1970s...Tags: Buddhism, Thomas Pynchon, Fiction, Literature, New Mexico
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Deaths last week
Herman Yaggi Carr, 83, physicist and pioneer in early development of MRI body-scanning technology; April 19, in Bridgewater, N.J., apparently of heart disease. Hazel Court, 82, British actress who began as a popular ingenue and became a cult figure as...Tags: Albert Einstein, Movies, Medicine, Auto Trends, Bible
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