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They Never Won an Emmy
The EnvelopeHere's a mystery even supersleuth Jessica Fletcher couldn't solve: why is one of TV's most popular stars -- Angela Lansbury -- the biggest loser in the history of TV's highest honor? Lansbury has lost as many Emmy Award nominations in primetime as Susan...Tags: Drew Carey, Crime, Law and Justice, The Beach Boys, Steve Allen, Paddy Chayefsky
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'Yours, Mine & Ours'
Times Staff WriterIn the early '60s a Navy widow named Helen North and a Navy warrant officer, Frank Beardsley, a widower, made headlines when they were married in the mission at Carmel because between them they had 18 children. Their story inspired the delightful and...Tags: New London (New London, Connecticut), Armed Forces, Cinema Industry, PG Rated Movies, Rene Russo
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'I Love Lucy' Co-Creator Dies
Zap2It.comTV writer Bob Carroll Jr., who co-created the classic sitcom "I Love Lucy" and worked on all 180 of its episodes, has died. Carroll, 87, died Saturday (Jan. 27) at his Los Angeles home of natural causes. He'd been in ill health for the past few weeks....Tags: The Hollywood Reporter, Television, Comedy (genre), Celebrity Parents, Paddy Chayefsky
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On the presidents' museum trails
Special to the TribuneThe first drive takes you to four presidential museums in four states; the second drive is a one-president trip to Michigan. DRIVE 1: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Drive west on Interstate Highway 80 to the Hoover at West Branch, Iowa, near...Tags: Iowa City, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Career and Workplace, Omaha
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Part 1: The longest day
A story in 3 acts ACT 1: A STORM GATHERS The air smells like stale hamburgers and unbrushed teeth. It smells like cold coffee, like sour beer. It smells like exhaustion. The air smells as if it has been inhaled and exhaled by too many people for far...Tags: Employees, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, McDonald's
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Happiness
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 16, 1998 Don't be surprised when the laughter "Happiness" creates sticks in your throat: It's supposed to. Writer-director Todd Solondz has come up with a desperate comedy of longing, misery and misplaced need whose effects are...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sex Crimes, Jon Lovitz, Elizabeth Ashley, Cynthia Stevenson
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The Legend of Drunken Master
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 20, 2000 When "Shanghai Noon" was winning friends for Jackie Chan a few months back, one troublesome critic (no names, please) grumbled that it was bittersweet that these new fans couldn't get a chance to see the Asian action...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Entertainment, Movies, Haley Joel Osment, Barbie (fictional character)
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A Life, A Death Revisited
Courant Staff WriterOn the opening day of the Michael Skakel murder trial, Martha Moxley both lived and died. The image of the blond teenager was projected onto the courtroom wall. She wore a print blouse and a dazzling smile. Her left arm was wrapped around several...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Elan Corporation Plc, Prosecution, Crimes
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Viking holiday
In Stockholm, I walked from breakfast into history. On the elegant, cobblestoned Stora Torget square, a few footsteps from my hotel, I asked a passerby for directions to the scene of the city's most notorious tragedy: the 1520 massacre, when Danish King...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Political Systems, Immigration, Washington (U.S. state), Government
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Modernism, take 2: tweaking the cliché
Special to The TimesWhen people think of Palm Springs, says Mark Davis, owner of the city's first store devoted to midcentury Modernism, they picture a butterfly roof house, a rock fireplace, the classic 1956 Eames lounge chair, the Nelson bubble lamps. What they no...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Davis (Yolo, California), Television, Design Within Reach Incorporated, Steve McQueen
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A wine region whose roads are less traveled
Special to The TimesThe approach to Thomas Fogarty Winery was just this side of too bucolic. Lupine and poppies lined the driveway, trellised wisteria hung over the picnic tables and swans (swans!) glided around a pond filled with lily pads. Inside the tasting room, a wall...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Napa Valley (Napa, California), California, Forestry and Timber, Rivers
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House as art, dig?
Special to The TimesJosh Agle, the artist popularly known as Shag, doesn't just draw from life. He paints from his living room. Using the architecture and interior design of his own home, he creates the candy-colored, acrylic-on-Masonite works that have made him an art world...Tags: Ethan Allen, Television, California, Los Angeles, Lifestyle and Leisure
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