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Comments about Michelle Obama's rear end are a throwback
During the '60s civil rights juggernaut, the "black is beautiful" movement flowered. It was the next logical step in America's extreme racial makeover. It affirmed the African aesthetic. It issued a counterpunch to centuries of stiff jabs about the...
Tags: Politics, Michelle Obama, Elections, Overweight, Sir Mix-a-Lot
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Father Martin's Ashley celebrates 30 years
Father Martin's Ashley, the non-profit alcoholism and drug addiction treatment center co-founded by Father Joseph C. Martin and Mae Abraham, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Ashley's opened its doors to the first five patients in 1983, and since then,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, The Happiest News!, Culture, Ceremonies
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'Drinking with Men': Life, one glass at a time
Rosie Schaap is not a celebrity. Not even close. She's a writer who happens to moonlight as a bartender. Or, if you prefer, she's a part-time drinks-slinger who happens to pen The New York Times Magazine's Drink column and contribute to NPR's "This...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Ford, Grateful Dead (music group), Chicago Tribune, The New York Times
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'Django' actor Dennis Christopher recalls the foxiest 'Little Fox' of them all -- Liz Taylor. Also, Oscar thoughts -- Ben Affleck robbed
Liz Smith"I'M LUCKY Horace. I've always been lucky. I'll be lucky again." So declared Lillian Hellman's ruthless anti-heroine Regina Giddens in "The Little Foxes." She announces this to her critically ill husband, after he has foiled her crooked plans to become...Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Nicky Hilton, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Lillian Hellman, Maureen Stapleton
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Tracy Letts plays his part in illuminating Edward Albee's 'Woolf'
NEW YORK — Tracy Letts has his hands full these days writing plays and preparing for the release of the movie version of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama, "August: Osage County." But he's added another formidable task to his agenda: elucidating...Tags: Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Amy Morton, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Taylor
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Legal drugs, deadly outcomes
Terry Smith collapsed face-down in a pool of his own vomit. Lynn Blunt snored loudly as her lungs slowly filled with fluid. Summer Ann Burdette was midway through a pear when she stopped breathing. Larry Carmichael knocked over a lamp as he fell...
Tags: Hailey Branson-Potts, Back Pain, Hydrocodone (drug), Los Angeles Times, Disease Prevention
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Ford Honored In Wreath Ceremony
Anchor/ReporterA wreath-laying ceremony was held on Saturday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids outside the tombs of former President Gerald R. Fordand former First Lady Betty Ford. The event is held each year by the Ford family on July 14th in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Culture, Death and Dying Customs
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Cinematographer Dennis Dalzell dies
VarietyCinematographer Dennis A. Dalzell died July 4 at the Motion Picture Health and Welfare Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., after a long illness. He was 76. Dalzell worked on numerous television shows, serving as d.p. on "The Rookies" (46 episodes),...Tags: Richard Pryor, U.S. Coast Guard, Gena Rowlands, Entertainment, Kitty Hawk
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Dr. James West dies at 98; a founder of Betty Ford Center
Dr. James W. West stood on the cutting edge of medicine in the middle of the 20th century and recognized "it sounded bizarre to remove an organ from a dead person and expect it to work." He was part of a team of surgeons who helped change that perception...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Substance Abuse, Kidney Disease, Psychiatry, Medical Procedures and Tests
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How celebrity florist David Jones' career blossomed
The gig: David Jones, who owns a floral studio bearing his name in West Hollywood, has counted some of the world's most powerful people among his clients. From humble beginnings growing up in the Midwest, the florist has traveled the world —...Tags: Entertainment Events, Liam Neeson, Tony Curtis, Entertainment, Elizabeth Taylor
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Fish Fry is a tradition unlike any other in Costa Mesa
Rollo McClellan, 92, is looking forward to the fish fry next weekend like it was his first. The first Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club Fish Fry was in 1945, and McClellan hasn't missed one since. Well, he had to cut out a day early once to go take a...
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Dorothy Townsend dies at 88; L.A. Times reporter broke newsroom barrier
The only woman in a sea of men in suits, Dorothy Townsend can't help but stand out in the official photograph of the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for coverage of the Watts riots.
The picture also inadvertently documents...Tags: Entertainment Events, Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Cancer, Disneyland Park
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