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Rediscovering a Laurel High coach and Irish pizza pub's 'leprechaun'
Occasionally this column takes a look at what happened to a person or thing that was a memorable part of Laurel's past. This month it looks at two Laurel icons from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Laurel High coach set the standard Laurel High...
Tags: Pizzas, University of Maryland, College Park, Real Estate Sellers, High Schools, Football
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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: Research, Robert Wise, World War I (1914-1918), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Melvyn Douglas
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Garbo! The unending saga of Hollywood's most mysterious, misunderstood star
Liz Smith"SHE WAS LIKE A HORSE ON THE TRACK. Nothing, and then the bell goes, and something happens," said Hollywood cinematographer James Wong Howe about Greta Garbo. If you're like me, sometimes you roam your living quarters picking up and putting down books...Tags: James Wong, Jennifer Jones, Andy Warhol, Entertainment Events, Garson Kanin
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Peter O'Toole, Meryl Streep, Cary Grant, Billy Wilder
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Letters from a legend ... will Daniel Craig be 'tattooed' again?
Liz Smith"SHE'S a bang bang boogie!" said Jamie Foxx, the dynamite star of "Django Unchained," of the one and only Beyonce. We'd already written our accolade to the Queen of the Super Bowl, but I couldn't resist this quote. THE OTHER day this column went off the...Tags: Spider-Man (fictional character), Rooney Mara, Django Unchained (movie), Skyfall (movie), Daniel Craig
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Barbara Walters -- on the mend in Manhattan
Liz Smith"Mr. Sinatra ... I am an Italian!" said the comedienne Kaye Ballard, currying favor way back when. "And I'm an American," Sinatra shot right back. (Funny, the things that turn up in old files.) OUR friend Cindy Adams of the Post settled it once and...Tags: D. W. Griffith, Anne Meara, Sandra Lee, Chickenpox, Patricia Clarkson
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Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...
Tags: Rodney King, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Tony Kushner, AIDS
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Dennis Christopher: 'Unchained' by Quentin Tarantino
Liz Smith"QUENTIN HAS AN ENCYCLOPEDIC knowledge of film. All kinds of films. When I met with him to discuss 'Django,' he told me, 'You've been on my radar for a long time. I've seen all your movies' "And I said, 'Come on, all my movies? You've actually seen 'Dead...Tags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained (movie), Dennis Quaid, Marlene Dietrich, Hart Bochner
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John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis get TCM marathons
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelTCM starts its Summer Under the Stars festival Wednesday with John Wayne, arguably the biggest movie star of all. Each day in August, starting at 6 a.m., the channel will salute a performer with a 24-hour marathon. What is Wayne's best? I vote “... -
On the Town: Retiring Woodbury president enjoys fond send-off
“I have had the opportunity to write several new chapters in the evolving Woodbury University history,” said the school’s retiring president, Kenneth Nielsen. “The success the school has achieved (is) a result of the hard work,...
Tags: Erin Murphy, National Lampoon Incorporated, Colleges and Universities, Mary Pickford, Kate Linder
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A Recent Silent Movie Sunday at Lyric Hall
Silent films have never seemed like a dead art to me, even though pictures began talking in 1929 and I was born in 1960. When I was a kid, silent films was what were shown at the public library to kids on Saturday afternoons, because Super8 projectors...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music Industry, Movies, Music, Poetry
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Chicago was a regular stop for Hollywood legends
Chicago used to be a must-stop for Hollywood's top talent and New York's glittering stars. If for no other reason than to change trains.
The Superman movie is a wrap. Laurence Fishburne and Amy Adams have gone home. And while "The Playboy Club" is...Tags: Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Laurence Fishburne, Midway Airport, Charlie Chaplin
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