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For McCain VP choice, a waiting game
The Associated PressJohn McCain's potential running mates were in what amounted to a high-stakes waiting game today as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting prepared to announce his running mate in the coming days. The two believed to be under the most serious...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Natural Disasters, Tom Ridge, Government, Mitt Romney
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Sid and Marty Krofft are still pulling the strings
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHollywood is often described as a dream factory, but really it's just as often a salvage yard. Anxious studio executives would rather bet their $100-million budgets on nostalgia than on new ideas, which is why, against all odds, Sid and Marty Krofft are...Tags: Movies, San Diego (San Diego, California), Walt Disney, Johnny Depp, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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For actor G.W. Bailey, home is where the Triscuits are
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhether it's the crusty elder statesmen on TNT's "The Closer" or the cranky police captain in the "Police Academy" franchise, G.W. Bailey has played countless variations on the sourpuss. And so the obvious question: Is he as crusty as the men he portrays?...Tags: Los Angeles, Health and Safety at School, Vehicles, Marilyn Monroe, Texas
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'Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent' by Ernest Freeberg
Democracy's Prisoner
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg
Harvard University Press: 380 pp., $29.95
It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and...Tags: Prisons, Wages and Pensions, History, Democracy, Helen Keller
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"Democracy's Prisoner," by Ernest Freeberg
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and a dubious law to restrict liberties at home. Add to that scenario vast inequalities in wealth, high Immigration rates, scant regard for...Tags: Prisons, Wages and Pensions, History, Democracy, Helen Keller
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Last act for Hollywood memorabilia
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey are packing up Old Hollywood and moving it to Newbury Park. That's where about 3 million film studio publicity stills, 50,000 original movie posters and 20,000 vintage fan magazines will be stored until they are auctioned off six months from now....Tags: Movies, Contracts, Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Calabasas
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Fast chat: Peter Gallagher
Special to NewsdayPeter Gallagher loves the old alley behind the Broadway theater where he's co-starring with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Some 30 years ago he was just starting out, appearing on this very stage in his first...Tags: Music Industry, Movies, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Olivier, MySpace
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Making sense of Hollywood -- in print
Special to The TimesApril 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...Tags: Movies, Censorship, Sidney Poitier, Elia Kazan, History
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City Living: Woodhaven, Queens
Special to amNewYorkNearly 200 years ago, Woodhaven was "Woodville" -- the name was later changed to distinguish the area from its upstate New York counterpart -- and home to two racetracks, drawing in tens of thousands of onlookers. Now that the tracks are gone, Woodhaven'...Tags: Groceries, Rape, Murder, Golf, Imperial and Royal Matters
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L.A. has always been dense
There has been much hand-wringing and some angst of late over the upsurge of big residential projects downtown and in other parts of Los Angeles. The new apartment and condo towers, as well as mixed-use projects, are anxiously portrayed as the "first...Tags: Echo Park, San Diego (San Diego, California), Office and Retail Spaces, New York, Apartments
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Poignant tale of Irish in World War I
Even though he's lived in America - mostly on Long Island - for 36 years, author Tom Phelan, 66, still sets all his novels in his native Ireland. That includes his latest, "The Canal Bridge," published by Lilliput Press of Dublin and now being distributed...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Television, Town of Brookhaven, Manhattan (New York City)
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Eat cheap
Who doesn't like to save a buck? In a city where restaurant prices have hit the stratosphere -- $55 mac and cheese, anyone -- it's about time somebody scouted out the cheapskate's choice. Here -- from budget barbecue to tightwad Thai -- we offer 16...Tags: Williamsburg, Lower East Side, West Village, Brunch, Upper West Side
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