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Hartford never had a poster girl quite like Katharine Hepburn. From the moment she struck it big until her final interviews, Hepburn served as the city's head cheerleader and informal archivist, generous philanthropist and cultural icon. She never forgot her roots on Hawthorn Street, where the words "Listen to the Song of Life'' were emblazoned on the mantel of the family house. From 1913 until her death in 2003, Katharine Houghton Hepburn roamed the world, conquering Hollywood and gaining, finally, the respect she deserved on New York's Great White Way. "Hartford is where I learned to grow up,'' she said in an affectionate 1988 television look at her childhood. "It is where I will come ho...
Hartford never had a poster girl quite like Katharine Hepburn. From the moment she struck it big until her final interviews, Hepburn served as the city's head cheerleader and informal archivist, generous philanthropist and cultural icon. She never forgot her roots on Hawthorn Street, where the words "Listen to the Song of Life'' were emblazoned on the mantel of the family house. From 1913 until her death in 2003, Katharine Houghton Hepburn roamed the world, conquering Hollywood and gaining, finally, the respect she deserved on New York's Great White Way. "Hartford is where I learned to grow up,'' she said in an affectionate 1988 television look at her childhood. "It is where I will come home to.'' Critics differed on Hepburn's gifts as an actress. Some attributed her stardom more to an ability to project a vivid, quirky screen personality than to genuine acting talent. But her peers honored her more often than almost any other performer, nominating her for a dozen best-actress Oscars and awarding her four. Hepburn is buried near her parents in the family plot at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford.
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'Australia' stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters
Tribune critic"Australia" offers everything from a cattle drive to Nicole Kidman's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" to hordes of Japanese Zeros zeroing in on screaming children during the early 1942 attack on Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, two months after...Tags: World War II, William Shakespeare, Hugh Jackman, Ronald Harwood, Baz Luhrmann
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'Australia' falls flat by borrowing from the classics
Hugh Jackman, a resourceful, good-humored star with the Old School knack for playing rugged and courtly, has just been named People's Sexiest Man Alive. Nicole Kidman, who can be an imposing woman of action (see the thriller Dead Calm), has become a...Tags: Cartoons, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Jackman, Montana, Baz Luhrmann
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Angel's got your back
Can madly flapping wings leave skid marks? What with all the firings and layoffs, I'm toiling around the clock to keep my job—as the primo place to go for your holiday predicaments. Night and day, 24/7, tireless Angel am I. (Are you reading this,...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Catherine Deneuve, Cheese, Cary Grant, Christmas
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OLD SAYBROOK: Hepburn Center To Be Involved In Saybrook Stroll
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center will have a role in this year's annual Saybrook Stroll on Dec. 5. The Old Saybrook High School chorus will sing on the steps of the Main Street center from 6 to 7 p.m. Although the building is still under...Tags: Culture
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U.S. doubles tennis star
New York Times News Service Carole Caldwell Graebner, a top-ranked women's doubles player and tireless supporter of the Fed Cup, an international tennis competition that she and longtime friend Billie Jean King helped inaugurate in 1963, died on...Tags: Samuel Goldwyn, Jennifer Capriati, Monica Seles, New York Times, Lindsay Davenport
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• 6 p.m. — The First Church of Winsted, 95 N. Main St., holds a Shopping Night until 9 p.m. • 6 p.m. — Mundy Hepburn and Bruce Campbell will speak at the opening reception for "The Good Earth Part II: Artists' Greatest...Tags: Elton John, Bruce Campbell, University of Hartford
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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: John Frankenheimer, Music Theater, Jonathan Demme, Gore Vidal, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
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Rays bunk for the night in Delaware before continuing Game 5
Election Day is less than a week away, and Joe Biden isn't even the biggest name in his home state. Joe Maddon is in Delaware, and so are his Tampa Bay Rays.
The Rays woke up Monday in Pennsylvania, packed their bags for Florida, and went to sleep in...Tags: Dave Martinez, Major League Baseball, Weather Reports, Cal Ripken, World Series
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Joe Hyams dies at 85; former Hollywood columnist, bestselling author
Joe Hyams, a former Hollywood columnist and bestselling author of books ranging from biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean to a popular tome on Eastern philosophy, has died. He was 85.
Hyams, a longtime Los Angeles resident who moved to Penrose,...Tags: Mass Media, Arkansas, Cinema Industry, Newspaper and Magazine, Chuck Norris
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Oscar likes to keep it real
" The Duchess." "W." " Changeling." " Defiance." "Frost/Nixon." "Milk." " Valkyrie." "Che." What do these films have in common, other than succinct titles? All are based on real people and events, and all happen to have release dates timed to award...Tags: Julia Roberts, Valkyrie (movie), Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, James Cagney
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SCREENING ROOM
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEleven documentaries from Europe receive their Southland premieres at the American Cinematheque's EuroDocs Film Festival, opening this evening and continuing through Wednesday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The opening night triple shorts bill...Tags: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Music, Santa Monica, Movies
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Unsettling 'Snapshots'
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThey're the sort of snapshots that World War II veterans, whatever their nationality, pasted in family albums. A smiling officer in full uniform, cradling a days-old baby wrapped thickly, cozily, in soft blankets. A submarine crew in swimsuits...Tags: Near North Side, Massacres, Adolf Hitler, Family, Los Angeles
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