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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: Jazz Music, Satellite and Cable Service, Ray Charles, Betty Grable, Paul McCartney
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Richard Gere and Diane Lane are an enduring screen couple
HOLLYWOOD BRIEFONLY once in her career has Diane Lane ever been asked to meet an actor to ascertain if the pair would have enough onscreen "chemistry" to make the screen sizzle. That was for the 1984 movie "The Cotton Club," and director Francis Ford Coppola wanted Lane...Tags: Outer Banks, Will Ferrell, Meg Ryan, Epidemics and Plagues, Debra Winger
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Chemistry between Gere, Lane endures
Tribune NewspapersHOLLYWOOD—Only once in her career has Diane Lane ever been asked to meet an actor to ascertain if the pair would have enough on-screen "chemistry" to make the screen sizzle. That was for the 1984 movie "The Cotton Club," and director Francis Ford...Tags: Outer Banks, Will Ferrell, Meg Ryan, Debra Winger, Clark Gable
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Glimpsed in Pikesville: Tracey Colvin
Special to The Baltimore SunAs one of the area's best known musicians/bandleaders, Freddie Stevens is almost as well known for his dapper style of dress as his music. So he was mortified that the one night slipped out to grab a bite with a friend in the bar at Ruth's Chris Steak...Tags: Ruth's Chris Steak House Incorporated, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Clothing and Textiles Industry, Armed Forces, Movies
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SAG feuds -- and the producers wait
Turner Classic Movies recently showed "Honky Tonk," a so-so 1941 movie starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. What struck me more than the movie, actually, was the vintage theatrical trailer that aired with it, highlighting not just the stars but "a star-...Tags: New York Times, Television Industry, Political Candidates, Movies, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Cyd Charisse dies in LA at 86
The Associated PressCyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday. She was 86. Charisse was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday after suffering...Tags: Dancing, Fred Astaire, Dance, Music, Popular Music
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Orlando is fun for grown-ups, too!
The Chicago TribuneThe official name is Universal Orlando Resort. That's marketing for you. Here's what it is: two amusement parks ( Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure) with overlapping themes and missions - which park has Barney and which...Tags: Spider-Man, Adults, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Islands of Adventure, Earthquakes
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Mare Winningham, deep in the heart of Tennessee
Special to The Times"MAYBE I shouldn't say this, but so often during the last 30 years, you're trying to make something better than it is," actress Mare Winningham confides. "You're trying to find richness where there isn't any. You're trying to find complexity where there...Tags: Venice, Children, Folk Music, Los Angeles, Music
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Starmakers
By Robin Blaetz Fairly early in her new book about the manufacture of movie stars in Hollywood's classical period, Jeanine Basinger confesses she was an usher in a movie theater for a decade after World War II. This fact, rather than the knowledge...Tags: Carmen Miranda, Deanna Durbin, Greer Garson, Doris Day, Books and Magazines
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Universal with grown-up appeal
Tribune reporterThe official name is Universal Orlando Resort. That's marketing for you. Here's what it is: Two amusement parks (Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure) with overlapping themes and missions -- which park has Barney and which park...Tags: Spider-Man, Adults, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Islands of Adventure, Earthquakes
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Hollywood: Being an extra where the action is
peggy.brown@newsday.comHey, there's Will Ferrell on the basketball court! About as far away as the height of his giant "Elf" ... closer than a car length for his racing legend Ricky Bobby. He's so close that we could scamper down the bleachers and shoot hoops with him in the...Tags: Spider-Man, Howie Mandel, Troy Donahue, Susan Kohner, Will Ferrell
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Can I be a soft-core porn star?
I ALWAYS WONDERED how much my soul was worth. So when Cinemax asked me if I'd go on camera to interview soft-core porn stars on the set of its new series, "Sin City Diaries," in return for $2,000 and a free night in Las Vegas, I discovered that my soul...Tags: Pornography, John Quinn, Vanessa Williams, Los Angeles, Family
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