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American Masters does Carson to biographical perfection - except for that masculinity thing
The Baltimore SunFrom Norman Rockwell and Leonard Bernstein to Baltimore's Cab Calloway, no one does biography like "American Masters" on PBS. I've been reviewing these superb productions for all of the 26 seasons that "American Masters" has been on the air, and have...Tags: Peter Jones, Psychotherapy, Dick Cavett, David Letterman, Norman Rockwell
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BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights
Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama.
These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...Tags: South Africa, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Human Rights, Entertainment Events, Military Equipment
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Tupac Shakur stage production to open in Chicago in January
A new biographical stage production about the late rapper Tupac Shakur is expected to premiere in January at the Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago. The show, written by Lyle Miller, is titled "Amaru (The History of Tupac Amaru Shakur)." A spokeswoman for...
Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Mormonism, Marvin Gaye, Tupac Shakur
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Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Don Van Natta Jr. Little, Brown: 404 pp., $27.99 So do you know who made the Top 10 when ESPN chose its 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century? Here they are: (1) Michael Jordan....Tags: Joe Louis, Paulina Gretzky, White House, Hank Aaron, Alex Karras
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
Tags: Middlebury, Robert Frost, University of Iowa, Colleges and Universities, William Faulkner
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Crime, Law and Justice, Robert Moses, White House, Robert F. Kennedy
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On Sunday: Bechdel's mom, Theroux's Africa and Mantel's Cromwell
Jacket CopyOn Sunday: Alison Bechdel's mom, Paul Theroux's Africa and Hilary Mantel's Cromwell.... -
Aaron Sorkin set to adapt 'Steve Jobs' for Sony
24 FramesAaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "The Social Network" will aim to help bring the life of the legendary tech icon Steve Jobs to the screen in a film for Sony Pictures that will reunite him with his "Social Network" producer Scott Rudin.... -
'End of the Rainbow': magic, heartbreak in Judy Garland portrayal
NEW YORK — Judy Garland, often drunk and occasionally disheveled, in Peter Quilter's biographical drama "End of the Rainbow," is rummaging for booze in her suite at the Ritz hotel. She's wired, and not simply because of the pills she can't seem to...
Tags: Tony Awards, Edmund Wilson, Entertainment Events, Judy Garland, Whitney Houston
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Local singers aiming for big year
TribLocal - Orland Park » NewsOrland Park’s Susan Manion and Lemont’s Conor Matthews are hoping their careers will take off this year. Manion, who sings contemporary pop songs and is …... -
Lincolnwood school district subject of criminal investigation
TribLocal - EvanstonThe Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has opened a criminal investigation against Lincolnwood School District 74, school officials have announced. In a prepared statement, school …... -
Character Witness
LA Times MagazineBiographers take you inside the art and science of their craft—and it's not as tame as you may think...
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