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Venerable Sportsmen's Lodge closing down
From the Associated PressThe end is near for the venerable Sportsmen's Lodge, a San Fernando Valley oasis where generations of celebrities and politicians dined and drank among gardens and trout ponds. The 63-year-old Studio City restaurant, bar and banquet hall has lost its...Tags: Clark Gable, Ronald Reagan, Tourism and Leisure, Hotels and Accommodations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Book for the 'Dog' days of summer
If you're looking for a great summer read and have vowed to take a break from the usual trash that ends up on your nightstand, have I got a book for you. It's a wonderful comic novel by the great Charles Portis called The Dog of the South, first...Tags: Film Festivals, Metal and Mineral, Credit and Debt
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007 makes a 'Grand' showing
Sun reporterFor more than 90 years, until it was demolished on a snowy January day in 2004 to make way for the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Southeast Anchor branch, the glorious Grand Theatre stood on Conkling Street as the pride of Highlandtown. With its Saturday...Tags: Norman Jewison, Cher, John Waters, Mount Vernon, John Ford
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Man of war steers satire lacking sting
(C+) When politics and culture satirize themselves, what is there left for satire to do? This is the problem faced by War, Inc., a broad lampooning of political corruption and war profiteering co-written by John Cusack (who also stars and produces) with...Tags: John Cusack, Government, Corrupt Practices, Marisa Tomei, Ronald Reagan
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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: Chris Rock, National or Ethnic Minorities, Richard Pryor, Racism, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Obama in the O.C.
It might have come as a surprise when Orange County, with its reputation for white-bread, affluent stodginess, suddenly became the spot for TV melodrama, with "The O.C.," "Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County" and "The Real Housewives of ..." -- well,...Tags: Barack Obama, Minority Groups, Parties and Movements, National or Ethnic Minorities, Democratic Party
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Obama mines a Republican stronghold
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn the Balboa Bay Club's wall of its most famous guests, there are photos of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford and, of course, the Duke. There are no Democratic politicians. Securely tucked behind the Orange Curtain, Newport...Tags: Government, Gerald Ford, Lawyers, Louis Gossett Jr., George H.W. Bush
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'Mongol' shows Genghis Khan as a young man
McClatchy Newspapers"Do not scorn a weak cub," reads a proverb at the start of "Mongol." "He may become a brutal tiger." Genghis Khan, of course, is more than brutal; he will eat tigers for breakfast. The legendary 13th-century conqueror, who controlled a fifth of the world...Tags: Oliver Stone
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Imbed yourself in 40 days of war in Iraq
United Feature SyndicateBased on Evan Wright's acclaimed book, the seven-part miniseries ''Generation Kill'' (at 9 on HBO, TV-MA) follows a battalion of young Marines as they advance into Iraq during the first 40 days of the 2003 invasion. Wright, an embedded reporter for...Tags: The Simpsons, Literature, Health and Safety at School, Julie Chen, Civil Rights
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Review: 'Generation Kill'
verne.gay@newsday.comGeneration Kill Seven-hour miniseries premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO, then successive Sundays through August. What it's About: The dramatization was adapted by David Simon and Ed Burns ("The Wire") from Evan Wright's book and Rolling Stone magazine...Tags: Values, Metal and Mineral, Ethics, David Simon, Cinema Industry
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