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More than 25 years and 25 million deaths later
Special to the SentinelModern-day lepers. That's what AIDS patients were in the 1980s. When I visited my brother, Jim Sammone, the first time in the hospital, I was stunned by the giant red sign on his hospital-room door. TAKE PRECAUTIONS. WEAR PROTECTIVE GARB. AIDS had...Tags: Assault, Diseases, Government, Linda Evans, AIDS
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Local nostalgia fans, unite! Hess's makes return
Of The Morning CallBrowsing the Hess's artifacts at the Lehigh County Heritage Museum's newest exhibit, the sense of loss that attended the venerable Allentown department store's closing a dozen years ago becomes palpable. How long has it been, really, since George Reeves,...Tags: Ed McMahon, Superman, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Barbara Eden, George Reeves
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Edie Adams dies at 81; Tony award-winning actress
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEdie Adams, the Tony award-winning actress and singer who was perhaps best known to a generation of television viewers as the seductive commercial spokeswoman for Muriel Cigars, has died. She was 81. Adams, the widow of the legendary comedian Ernie...Tags: Theater, Ernie Kovacs, Fred MacMurray, CBS Corp., Music
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Kobal Foundation celebrity photos capture eternal glamour
Special to The TimesFROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. He longed to become a part of it, and eventually he did -- by befriending faded movie stars and forgotten photographers, enchanting them with his sincerity and his hungry memory, and...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Tallulah Bankhead, Twilight (movie), Jackie Cooper, Greta Garbo
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Mamma mia! Movie lovers can fill MP3s with the hits
Special to the Chicago TribuneBlockbuster season may be winding down, but the soundtrack for one of this summer's movies has scaled the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart as it ends. The never-going-to-let-you-go " Mamma Mia!" is the first soundtrack to claim the top spot since...Tags: Meryl Streep, Bernard Herrmann, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Angelina Jolie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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David Kaufman's "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door"
Tribune NewspapersSteve Carell doesn't have a copyright on playing the 40-year-old virgin. That's a role Doris Day, at age 40, was still playing on-screen when she made "That Touch of Mink" with Cary Grant in 1962. In that sex farce, Day was the unsullied working-class...Tags: Diseases, Cancer, Celebrity Mothers, Doris Day, Marriage
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Desolate town finds new life through Hollywood
Associated PressA thousand feet above a wind-swept, drought-browned valley, a man steps out of a late-'70s Ford Granada on a deserted two-lane. He is confronted by a second man, who raises a pneumatic bolt gun to his forehead and deals a fatal blow. Chip Love -- or "Man...Tags: James Dean, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Academy Awards, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals
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Interviews with Fringe's most anticipated artists
Sentinel Theater CriticIt's the 17th annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival (phew!), the 12-day celebration of everything onstage — plays, musicals, dance, comedy, music, performance art and just about anything else that moves. We talked to some of the...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Literature, California, Donna Reed
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Charlton Heston, 84; actor, Oscar winner, played grand figures
Special to The TimesCharlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....Tags: Theater, Republican Party, Paul Newman, Cinema Industry, Andrew Jackson
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Oscar-Winning Director Delbert Mann Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDelbert Mann, who directed the acclaimed live TV production of "Marty," Paddy Chayefsky's classic tale of a lonely Bronx butcher, and then won an Academy Award directing the 1955 movie version, has died. He was 87. Mann, a former president of the...Tags: Theater, Academy Awards, Literature, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals
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'Falcon Crest' Actress Jane Wyman Dies at 90
Special to The TimesJane Wyman, the Academy Award-winning actress whose long and distinguished film and television career was nearly overshadowed by her real-life role as the first wife of actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan, died this morning. She was 90. Wyman died at...Tags: Cinema Industry, Christianity, California, Film Festivals, CBS Corp.
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New on DVD
Metromix StaffPICK OF THE WEEK: THE HOST (Magnolia) Any movie with a mutant sea creature terrorizing a South Korean riverfront is going to have geek-appeal to spare, but this well-crafted international horror hit has the goods to captivate a broader audience. Mixing...Tags: John Grisham, Elvis Presley, Henrik Ibsen, Doris Day, Movies
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