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Take 5: Football Biopics
andy.edelstein@newsday.com' The Express," which opens Friday, tells the story of Ernie Davis, the Syracuse University running back who, in 1961, became the first black to win college football's prestigious Heisman Trophy. Here are five other notable football biopics: KNUTE ROCKNE...Tags: Robert Urich, Gale Sayers, Jim Thorpe, James Caan, Injuries
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Nick Reynolds, 75, dies; a founding member of the Kingston Trio
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNick Reynolds, who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk music revival to the top of the pop music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San...Tags: Ceremonies, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Lindsey Buckingham
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Nick Reynolds, member of folk band Kingston Trio, dies
Nick Reynolds, who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk music revival to the top of the pop music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger
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Kingston Trio co-founder dies, 75
Nick Reynolds,75 — who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk-music revival to the top of the pop-music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio — died...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger
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Jimmie Rodgers: A voice that carried
Special to The TimesBear Family Records' remarkable new release, "Let Me Be Your Sidetrack: The Influence of Jimmie Rodgers," makes a persuasive argument that Rodgers is one of the most important figures in the history of country music. According to the liner notes for...Tags: Van Morrison, Music Industry, Country Music, Bono, Elvis Presley
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Hot Property: Kelsey Grammer puts up Holmby Hills estate for a quick flip
Meet Kelsey the flipper.
Kelsey Grammer, who lives in Malibu's Serra Retreat, has listed an English Country-style estate in Holmby Hills for $19.9 million. Grammer and his wife, Camille, have owned this home for about a year and are hoping to flip it for...Tags: Music Industry, Antonio Banderas, Groucho Marx, Brad Pitt, Kelsey Grammer
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In-Box
Remembering Lenny Your excellent take on Lenny Bruce ("Nobody, nothing was sacred," July 6) brought back memories, not only of him, but of the Cloister Inn. When I was driving a Flash Cab in the early '50s, the Maryland Hotel cabstand was pretty much my...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Studs Terkel, Roseland, Hoffman Estates
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'Bad boy' host of '60s late-night TV
Chicago Tribune NewspapersLes Crane, called the "bad boy of late-night television" when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, has died. He was 74. His death of natural causes Sunday at a hospital north of San Francisco was announced by his...Tags: William F. Buckley, Executive Branch, Consumer Electronics Industry, Civil Rights, Malcolm X
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'In Search of the Black Fantastic' by Richard Iton
Special to The TimesJuly 10, 2008 When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had "oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the actor and civil rights advocate ignited a...Tags: Racism, Minority Groups, NAACP, Hurricanes, James Brown
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"Palace Council,' by Stephen L. Carter
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections—along with the right bloodlines and education—a...Tags: Lena Horne, Newspapers, Sugar Ray, Richard Nixon, Langston Hughes
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'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter
Special to The TimesJuly 8, 2008 It's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections -- along with the right bloodlines and...Tags: Lena Horne, Cultural Development, Graham Greene, Billy Dee Williams, Joseph P. Kennedy
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A conversation with Rev. Jesse Jackson
For nearly half a century, Rev. Jesse Jackson has ranked as America's most ubiquitous civil rights crusader, working alongside Rev..Martin Luther King Jr., founding Operation PUSH, demanding equality from corporate America and twice making credible runs...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Minority Groups, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, MySpace
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