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50 years ago: 'The Homestead' added to Bel Air town limits
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, July 12, 1962: The Town of Bel Air grew by 249 acres as a result of a property annexation acquired by the Commissioners of Bel Air. The property known as "The Homestead," a 300-acre farm, was divided...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Bozo the Clown (fictional character), Elvis Presley, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
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100 Years Ago: Getting out of town in the summer was the thing to do
100 Years Ago Escapees return From the Woodbine social column: "Miss Mary Roth returned to the neighborhood after spending the summer with relatives in Wilmington, Delaware. Mrs. John M. DeLashautt and daughter, Miss Mildred DeLashmutt, have...Tags: Celebrities, Bette Davis, All About Eve (movie), Clarksville, Arlington County
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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: Lillian Gish, Truman Capote, Ingmar Bergman, Genres, Charles Addams
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Fun facts
Special to Baltimoresun.comAre you having a few film buffs over for an Oscar party? Would you like to impress them with your uncanny knowledge of Oscar trivia? Here are a few fun facts about the annual ceremony to sprinkle in amid the overdone musical numbers and the nominees for...Tags: Jose Ferrer, Academy Awards, Tatum O'Neal, Jackie Cooper, Movies
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Tonight: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Christmas; Bruno Mars on ‘The X Factor’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe TV highlights Thursday night: 1. You can experience Christmas memories with Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) on “The Big Bang Theory” at 8 on CBS. In another “Big Bang” plot, Penny, Bernadette and Amy struggle to find a woman for... -
'Spartacus': Kirk Douglas still a political gladiator: Ahead of Monday night's Academy screening, the 95-year-old thesp-producer recalls his battles to make the epic and to break the Blacklist
VarietyAt 95, some 15 years after a stroke left him battling a speech impediment, Kirk Douglas worries about making himself understood. He has reason to worry -- not because he has difficulty speaking, but because he still has so much to say. In fact, he...Tags: Drama (genre), Stanley Kubrick, Sean Penn, Trumbo (movie), Laurence Olivier
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Kirk Douglas -- no matter what he says (to me) he is 'Spartacus'!
Liz Smith"DEAR LIZ, I am NOT Spartacus! I'm your friend. Many pleasant memories. With affection, Kirk." That is what is inscribed on the opened page of Kirk Douglas' hugely entertaining new book, "I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist." Now, even...Tags: Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrick, Trumbo (movie), Laurence Olivier, Liz Smith
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Ray Bradbury, 91, leaves a rich theatrical legacy too
Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday at 91, will be remembered foremost as a science-fiction novelist and short-story writer whose works "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" have transcended the genre to become literary classics. But Bradbury was...
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Author Ray Bradbury dies at 91
VarietyRay Bradbury, the influential and thought-provoking science-fiction writer best known for "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Tuesday night in Los Angeles. He was 91. Many of Bradbury's stories and novels were adapted for radio,...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (tv program) , Drama (genre), Zack Snyder, Libraries, Animation (genre)
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Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Florenz Ziegfeld, U.S. Department of State, Biography (genre), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Leonardo DiCaprio
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Oscars by the Numbers
LA Times MagazineSurprising stats from the most famous awards show of them all... -
DVD Review: 'Design for Living'
When Ernst Lubitsch's comedy about a Bohemian menage a trois was released in 1933, it took a lot of heat for its lack of fidelity to Noel Coward's original stage play. Screenwriter Ben Hecht boasted that he had retained only one line of dialogue from...Tags: Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, DVDs, Gary Cooper, Television
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