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Just for laughs
Special to baltimoresun.comSo you've seen every movie imaginable, you're still living down your last bar disaster, and at this point the waitress at the local restaurant can recite your order backwards in her sleep. You may think this leaves you with limited options for a night...Tags: Disc Jockeys, Kevin James, Chris White, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Bill Cosby
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September 30: Author - Michael Starr, Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story
WGN NewsMichael Starr To purchase a copy of the book: Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story tells the remarkable story of Foxx, a veteran comedian and "overnight sensation" at the age of forty-nine whose early life was...Tags: Minority Groups, Chris Rock, Redd Foxx, Television, WGN
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Read, see, discuss this book/film
The movie, "Think Like a Man," leads the box office for the second straight week. After last weekend, the film, made for $12 million, had raked in more than $60 million in two weeks. Now we can stop the Tuskegee Airmen "Red Tails" discussion that black-...Tags: Movies, Eric Benet, Think Like a Man (movie), Talk Shows (genre), Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Comedy Legend Redd Foxx
KPLR11.comJames Elroy Sanford was born December 9, 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri. When he was four years old his father left James and his mother alone on the South side of Chicago. He gained the nickname of "Chicago Red" due to his reddish hair and complexion. He...Tags: Jamie Foxx, Comedy (genre), Della Reese, Television, St. Louis
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New documentary paints an airbrushed portrait of Hugh Hefner
Brand XThere have been a few previous documentaries about Playboy publisher Hugh M. Hefner, but none as detailed or — for better or worse — as long as “Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel.” This two-hour-plus Canadian production from... -
'One Bright Shining Moment'
Times Staff WriterIf Americans think of Democratic candidate George McGovern at all, it's as the man who suffered one of the worst electoral defeats of all time, losing every state but Massachusetts in his 1972 presidential contest with incumbent Republican Richard M....Tags: Movies, Richard Nixon, Warren Beatty, Gloria Steinem, World War II (1939-1945)
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A stand-up guy
Times Staff WriterBob Hope's comedy relied on rapid-fire one-liners; Bill Cosby's relies on folksy, sometimes surreal stories about his life, children and the media. Cosby evoked all of that Sunday at the Emmy Awards when he received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award....Tags: Minority Groups, Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, New York City, Awards and Prizes
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Dick Gregory: I'm Not In Jail, America Is In Jail
Tribune Staff Reporter"Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This White waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said, 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.' About that time, these...Tags: Judaism, Minority Groups, Heads of State, Prisons, Local Elections
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Panther
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday May 3, 1995 Jean-Luc Godard called the well-brought-up radicals of the 1960s "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" and a twist on that celebrated phrase is applicable to "Panther," an examination of the Black Panther Party, and its director...Tags: Joe Don Baker, Coca-Cola Co., Kadeem Hardison, Minority Groups, FBI
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