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The movies are a mission for Baltimore's George Figgs
Downloading movies and watching them on a computer is not for George Figgs, who has spent the better part of three decades affording Baltimore cinephiles the chance to experience films the way God intended — in the dark, projected onto a bigger-...
Tags: Music, Netflix Inc., Maryland Film Festival, Google Inc., Mount Royal
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UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...
Tags: Hayley Mills, Rockefeller Center, ABC (tv network), Wines, Festive Events
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Jekyll & Hyde
VarietyUpon seeing Jean Cocteau's classic "Beauty and the Beast," Greta Garbo reportedly remarked, "Give me back the beast!" Nowadays, audiences should pretty much feel the same way after watching any retelling of Robert Louis Stephenson's "Jekyll & Hyde."...Tags: Constantine Maroulis, Music, Newsies (musical), Bram Stoker, Greta Garbo
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Oscar presenter Marlene Dietrich
FrameworkActress Marlene Dietrich, left, with Dr. Mario Ungara, Italian Consul, who was delegated to accept the Best Foreign Language award for "The Walls of Malapaga" at the 1951 Academy Awards.... -
Peter Debruge: This is not a top-10 list: 'Beasts,' 'Kill List' among best films of the year
VarietyJustin Chang: A masterful year at the movies Have you made your top-10 list yet? It's that time of the year when everyone from critics to casual Facebook acquaintances reorders the cinematic output of the past 12 months according to his or her taste,...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie), Wildlife, Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awards
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Best 2012 performances: Hampton Roads had several high points
The performing arts scene looked a bit like a Busch Gardens theme ride in 2012, with lots of high points and a couple of strange twists and turns. Overall, the quality of presentations was first-rate with several regional or world premieres and knockout...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Camelot (tv program), Barry Manilow, Charlie Chaplin
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'American Lady' offers a portrait of Susan Mary Alsop
When Susan Mary Alsop died in August 2004 at the age of 86, her death marked the end of a legendary era in Washington social and political life. The wife of columnist Joseph Alsop, she had a front-row seat in the theater of 20th century power players, was...
Tags: CBS Corp., United Nations, Chicago Tribune, Authors, Groton
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Jacques Barzun dies at 104; helped found field of cultural history
Jacques Barzun, a courtly French American scholar with a bracing knowledge of Western civilization who helped found the field of cultural history and in his 90s wrote the epic if improbable bestseller "From Dawn to Decadence," has died. He was 104....
Tags: Music, World War I (1914-1918), George W. Bush, Fiction, Marcel Duchamp
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A taste of Lyon, France
Food? Art? History? It's all here in this slightly quirky city
On that famous restaurant byway, Rue Merciere, servers were putting chairs on tabletops and sweeping up crumbs.
I had arrived in this gourmand paradise far too late for dinner.
Feeling...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Everest, Sausages, Paris (France), Arts
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PASSINGS: Jan Sawka
Jan Sawka Poster artist and architect Jan Sawka, 65, a noted Polish American artist and architect whose designs included posters for theatrical productions and touring sets for the Grateful Dead, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack at his...
Tags: The New York Times, Museums, Artists, Architecture, Arts
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Somerset County Where to Go June 28
Fireworks Show Somerset County’s Premier 4th of July Fireworks Show at 9:30 p.m. June 30 set off from the field behind the Somerset Senior High School. Rain date July 1. Meyersdale fireworks Meyersdale Parks and Recreation Independence Day...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Hersheypark, Emergency Health Procedures, Pink Floyd (music group), Jackson Browne
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Fashion Diary: Fast forward to 2012
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticStealth wealth. Fashion gaming. Elsa Schiaparelli. Raf Simons. What else? Here's a list of stylish people, trends and ideas to pay attention to in 2012. Surrealism. Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibition...Tags: Fashion Shows, Miley Cyrus, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cynthia Rowley, Charlie Chaplin
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