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Historic theater confronted with changes
Days after the city offered to save the Senator Theatre by turning it into a nonprofit business, owner Tom Kiefaber said he is working with the mayor's office to finalize the deal "as soon as possible."
But gaining nonprofit status would likely mean...Tags: Senator Theatre, Charlotte, Internal Revenue Service, Companies and Corporations, Roland Park
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A watershed for the Oscars
Sun Movie CriticAt the Oscars next month, an unprecedented contest will unfold. Jamie Foxx, nominated in the best actor category for his role as Ray Charles in Ray, will be up against the highly regarded Don Cheadle from Hotel Rwanda. And for best supporting actor,...Tags: O.J. Simpson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher
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Elisabeth Weinstock's flair for the exotic
, Los Angeles TimesLuxury designer and native Angeleno Elisabeth Weinstock knows the art of blending elegance with edge — a skill she attributes to having grown up a punk rock kid in Beverly Hills (the spiked Christian Louboutin sneakers she is wearing one recent...Tags: Landforms, Trips and Vacations, Caves and Caverns
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1968 Academy Awards delayed
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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: Johnny Carson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Preston Sturges, Stanley Donen
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ONE FOR THE TABLE: Our favorite food movies
EntreeCompiled by Amy Ephron and Lisa Dinsmore We received a letter from a reader telling us how how much she loved the scene in "Desk Set" (a film that Amy Ephron's parents wrote) where Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy make fried chicken and floating...Tags: The Princess Bride (movie), Nora Ephron, Arsenic and Old Lace (movie), Bill Murray, Tom Hanks
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Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in...
Tags: Baseball, Wimbledon Championships, Los Angeles Dodgers, U.S. Open (tennis), Bobby Riggs
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Tributes to Mary Pickford, Michel Legrand among week's highlights
It's a big weekend for fans of legendary screen star Mary Pickford and Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand ("Summer of '42"). Christine Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," will be talking about the new book and singing copies...
Tags: Music Industry, Band of Outsiders, Stanley Kramer, Fredric March, Robert Mitchum
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Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'
Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...
Tags: Marriage, The Kids Are All Right (movie), Humphrey Bogart, Joss Whedon, Paul Mazursky
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When skinny-dipping didn't violate the Code ★★★ 1/2
In the early sound era, especially between 1930 and mid-1934, Hollywood movies enjoyed a freedom of expression — salacious, violent, often outrageous expression — we know today as the pre-Code era. The film industry's self-appointed watchdog...
Tags: Claudette Colbert, Eugene Pallette, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Genres
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Can Cher save Logo?
Liz Smith"FEW THINGS are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example," wrote Mark Twain. It is interesting that the one and only Cher is reportedly closing a deal with the Logo Network to produce -- and perhaps to appear -- in a series set in the...Tags: Matt Lauer, Entertainment Events, Prostate Cancer, Liz Smith, Angelina Jolie
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Love Notes: So many differences, all so irrelevant
Janice Patterson remembers calling her mother to announce she was engaged. There wasn't much excitement on the other end of the line. "She said, 'Well, I'll tell your father. It's your life,' Janice recalls. "Then she said, 'I have to get off the...
Tags: Marriage, Hyde Park, Autism, Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller
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