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The Ghosts of 'Tinseltown'
JAMES STEWART 1908-1997 Best known as: The lovable Everyman in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and other Frank Capra classics; also took edgy turns in Hitchcock thrillers Holiday classic: "It's a Wonderful Life" Oscar? Best Actor in 1940 for "The...Tags: Mickey Rooney, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (movie), Celebrities, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), It's a Wonderful Life (movie)
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Natural Perspectives: Borrowing water from the future to irrigate a desert
Vic and I just returned from a brief getaway over the Memorial Day weekend. We stayed in the Palm Springs area at a resort with our son, daughter-in-law, and four small grandchildren, enjoying desert luxury. One expects a desert to be hot and dry. Palm...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, Memorial Day, Water Supply, Natural Resource Industry, Sports
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In the Pipeline: Memories of a president's pilot
If I've learned anything in the 11 years my family and I have lived in Huntington Beach, it's that you never know who you'll run into in Huntington Beach.
Take, for example, the man I sat with recently. He sat on a couch thumbing through a photo album....Tags: John Steinbeck, Peru, Walter Cronkite, Vietnam War (1955-1975), John Wayne
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'The Sapphires' a tuneful trip to Vietnam ★★ 1/2
Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already, many have seen it and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...
Tags: Bridesmaids (movie), Movies, The Sapphires (movie), Australia, Entertainment
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Onion 'edgy': Tasteless and sickening
The tweet went as follows: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a (expletive), right?" The missing word is a bit of verbal sewage sometimes used to disparage women. Begins with "c," rhymes with "hunt." Its...
Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Richard Pryor, Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, Norman Lear
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Bad news continues for Bob Hope Airport
This post has been corrected. See details below. The number of passengers traveling through Bob Hope Airport fell by double digits for the second straight month in February, dropping 11.6%. The airport handled 282,073 passengers in February, down from...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Los Angeles International Airport, John Wayne, American Airlines, Inc., JetBlue Airways
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The many charms of beautiful downtown Burbank
The city of Burbank has come in for some serious dissing since news broke that "The Tonight Show" may leave NBC studios at Olive and Alameda avenues in search of an edgier, fresher vibe in New York City. The old "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" slam about...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Gale Holland, Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show (tv program), Johnny Carson
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'Edgy' is tasteless and sickening
The tweet went as follows: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a (expletive), right?" The missing word is a bit of verbal sewage sometimes used to disparage women. Begins with "c." Its target here, however,...Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Richard Pryor, Milton Berle, The Miami Herald, Lenny Bruce
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Review: 'The Sapphires' plays like a good-time jukebox musical
Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already many have taken it, and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...
Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Bridesmaids (movie), Human Interest, Movies
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Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning. Except last time. Some...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Steve Martin, Germany, Johnny Carson, Movies
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: Jaws (movie), Robert Altman, Magnolia (movie), Howard Hawks, The Grapes of Wrath (movie)
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On the Town: Chamber cruises to an evening gala
While folks are accustomed to turning west off Hollywood Way into Bob Hope Airport to travel, this past Friday evening saw more than 250 members and supporters of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce make an easterly turn to the Marriott Burbank Airport...
Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Adam Schiff, Entertainment
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