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The Contenders: Tina Fey gets to let loose on the 'fun stuff' in '30 Rock's' final season
Tina Fey never had a master plan for the end of "30 Rock." She wasn't even sure if, this time last year, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt was about to pick up the phone, cancel the show and preempt a graceful exit for her decorated sitcom. "We'll never...
Tags: St. Elsewhere (tv program), 30 Rock (tv program), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (tv program), Music, Tina Fey
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When you say jazz, Nicholas Payton hears BAM
In a cramped UCLA classroom, trumpeter Nicholas Payton is leading a young septet of college students through his piece "The Backwards Step." He's here as part of a weeklong teaching residency, and the song he plays to the group at the Thelonious Monk...
Tags: Fine Artists, Music, Thelonious Monk, Twitter, Inc., Barack Obama
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Pine, Quinto on film’s real-world parallels
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Star Trek” has always been about more than a spaceship crew hurtling through the cosmos — over the decades, the ...... -
On TV, a new breed of Modern Woman
A ruthlessly self-aware political wife reconsidering her choices. A sensual socialite facing down an oppressive age with informed good humor. A group of young women so busy defying social expectations they've forgotten to have any of their own. A...
Tags: Parks and Recreation (tv program), The New Girl (tv program), The Awakening (movie), Feminism, Sex and the City (movie)
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Concord Music Acquisition Boosts Star Power For New Haven Firm
The Hartford CourantFor Brett D. Hellerman, CEO of Wood Creek Capital Management LLC in New Haven, buying one of the most prominent independent record companies is a coup for several reasons, not least a partnership with a revered Hollywood legend. Wood Creek's purchase...Tags: Norfolk (Litchfield, Connecticut), Frank Sinatra, Kenny G, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett
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LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian snag a bucolic bargain
Country singing star LeAnn Rimes and her husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, know a bargain when they see one. The pair spent $3 million behind the gates in bucolic Hidden Hills on a house marketed as a short sale that once sold for $5.575 million. The...
Tags: Celebrities, CSI: Miami (tv program), Smash (tv program), Sanford and Son (tv program), Swimming
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The History Channel earns huge ratings with 'The Bible'
The Baltimore SunThe networks might be struggling on Sunday nights but not basic cable's the History Channel. The miniseries beat everything in sight Sunday night with record ratings for "The Bible." I think this quote from executive producers Roma Downey and Mark...Tags: Celebrities, Keith David, Twitter, Inc., NBC (tv network), Entertainment Events
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Bonnie Franklin: a round of sweet applause for an innovator
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelExuberant, energetic and loving, Bonnie Franklin presented a dynamic image as a TV mom. In her long-running sitcom, “One Day at a Time,” Franklin as Ann Romano helped push television to a greater realism about single mothers and family life.... -
Bonnie Franklin dies at 69; mom on TV's 'One Day at a Time'
Bonnie Franklin, the actress who created an indelible television character playing a divorced, working mother of two headstrong daughters on the long-running series "One Day at a Time," died Friday at her Los Angeles home. She was 69. The cause was...
Tags: Celebrities, Health Treatments, Donald O'Connor, All About Eve (movie), Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Bonnie Franklin, star of TV's 'One Day at a Time,' dies at 69
By Rebecca TrounsonBonnie Franklin, the actress who created an indelible television character playing a divorced, working mother of two headstrong daughters on the long-running series “One Day at a Time,” died Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69. The...Tags: Birth Control, Health Treatments, Theater, One Day at a Time (tv program), Broadway Theater
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Onion 'edgy': Tasteless and sickening
The tweet went as follows: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a (expletive), right?" The missing word is a bit of verbal sewage sometimes used to disparage women. Begins with "c," rhymes with "hunt." Its...
Tags: Onions, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Bob Hope, Culture, Milton Berle
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'Edgy' is tasteless and sickening
The tweet went as follows: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a (expletive), right?" The missing word is a bit of verbal sewage sometimes used to disparage women. Begins with "c." Its target here, however,...Tags: Onions, Entertainment Events, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), The Miami Herald, Culture
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