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Woodwards raised Triple Crown champions at their Bowie farm
My earliest recollection of the television that arrived in my family's Guilford Avenue home was the broadcast of the 1955 Preakness. We were all fixed on that black-and-white Sylvania mounted high on a wall. Nashua beat Swaps and went on to win the...Tags: Arts, Preakness Stakes, Horse and Harness Racing, Museums, Walters Art Museum
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Gold medal in hand, Friends School senior heads to top art college
Emilio Martinez's first exposure to art came early in life, when his parents took him to the Visionary Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. "I think I was, like, an infant," said the Roland Park native. But his first exposure may have been even...
Tags: Quakerism, Andy Warhol, Teaching and Learning, Arts, Colleges and Universities
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Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...Tags: Paul Williams, Eyes Without a Face (movie), The Old Dark House (movie), DVDs, Anthony Perkins
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Crashing the party
Sun Movie CriticCrash, a film that suggests America has far to go to become a true racial melting pot, upset heavily favored Brokeback Mountain in being named the best picture of 2005 at last night's 78th annual Academy Awards ceremonies. The film, whose characters...Tags: Arts, ABC (tv network), Academy Awards, Meryl Streep, Culture
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Actor, hailed as greatest of his era, dies
Sun Movie CriticMarlon Brando, who changed not just the face but the mind and soul of movie acting with a series of revolutionary performances in the 1950s, died Thursday at age 80 of lung failure at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. In his five decades on screen, Mr....Tags: Arts, Hospitals and Clinics, Academy Awards, Walt Whitman, Elia Kazan
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'Brokeback Mountain' leads Golden Globe noms
The Associated PressThe gay cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" positioned itself as a key Oscar competitor Tuesday, roping in seven Golden Globe nominations, including best dramatic picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee. Other best drama picture...Tags: Nathan Lane, Grey's Anatomy (tv program), Lost (tv program), Russell Crowe, ABC (tv network)
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Globes honor 'Brokeback,' 'Walk the Line'
Associated PressThe cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain led the Golden Globes yesterday with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honor for Ang Lee. It was a triumphant night for films dealing with homosexuality and transsexuality. Along with the...Tags: Academy Awards, Murder, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Carell, Movies
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Shy debutante became giant in U.S. journalism
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Katharine Graham, the grande dame of modern American journalism who helped transform The Washington Post into one of the nation's top newspapers, died yesterday at a hospital in Boise, Idaho, after suffering a head injury in a fall Saturday....Tags: Arts, Lyndon B. Johnson, Georgetown, Book, Homes
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Give voice to classics old and new
Special To The SunWalk into my three-storied neighborhood book joint only at the risk of being struck blind by the glittering displays of Christmas books. From Truman Capote to Jimmy Carter to that pioneer of self-help, M. Scott Peck, there is no shortage of writers who...Tags: John Donne, Holidays, Matt Groening, M. Scott Peck, Poetry
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Filmmaker and Lincoln Park native Tanya Wexler on her romantic comedy 'Hysteria'
Ideas have a funny way of bubbling to the surface of pop culture. You think something's unique, only to find that somebody else has been working on a similar idea. Not that many years ago, two separate films about Truman Capote were released within a year...
Tags: The New York Times, Daryl Hannah, Richard Curtis, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show (tv program)
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Free Film Screenings In The Hartford Area, May 24-30
Born to Be Wild — Documentary about orphaned orangutans and elephants. Saturday, May 26, at 1 p.m. at Brainerd Memorial Library, 920 Saybrook Road, Haddam. G. Breakfast at Tiffany's— Blake Edwards' 1961 adaptation of the 1958 novel by...
Tags: Cary Grant, Romance (genre), Katharine Hepburn, Noah Webster, James Stewart
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What it takes to get writers writing
Jacket CopyWhen it comes to writing, authors can be pretty superstitious....
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