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'Pest Control' can't be exterminated
Special to The TimesYou can't throw a skim latte in L.A. without hitting a writer who has a screenplay that's been stuck in the system since grunge was breaking. But there are very few who can say that in the intervening years they've turned the same story into a well-...Tags: Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Get Smart (movie), Book
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Running in circles
By Ed Park * To take a page from last month's column: We learn from John Crowley's "Endless Things," the final book of his "Aegypt" cycle, that "Coleridge had written . . . that 'the common end of all narrative, nay of all poems, is to convert a...Tags: Clubs and Associations, History, Death, William Gaddis, The Da Vinci Code (movie)
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Broadway 's 'Young Frankenstein' is a monster mishmash
Tribune theater critic"Young Frankenstein" has a roughly $20 million budget, some $450 orchestra seats, an iconic 1974 source movie, performers with better pedigrees than the Queen of England's corgis, and heaps of goodwill flowing from the way its eminently lovable creator,...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Music Theater, Broadway Theater, James Whale
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Top 25 worst TV shows ever
Is "Petticoat Junction" the worst? This week, CBS canceled its bankrupt casino drama "Viva Laughlin," which some have called one of the worst TV shows ever. Which got us to thinking. Here, then, is our list of The 25 Worst TV Shows Ever. Let the...Tags: Cavemen (tv program), Elections, New York University, Jerry Springer, Lucille Ball
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Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Dies at 84
Special to The TimesMarcel Marceau, the great French mime who for seven decades mastered silence and brought new life to an ancient art form, has died. He was 84. Marceau died Saturday in Paris, French news media reported, citing his former assistant Emmanuel Vacca. The...Tags: Red Skelton, Marcel Marceau, Harold Lloyd, Death, Celebrities
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Dramatist Donald Margulies sees the stage in a fresh light
Special to The TimesMore than a quarter century ago, the critic Robert Hughes called the public's response to Modern art "the shock of the new." The role of art was to stimulate ideas, provoke thought, challenge ways of seeing. Today, we are experiencing a different,...Tags: Music, Radio, The Graduate (movie), Economy, Business and Finance, Television
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MILITARY DEATHS
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen he was going through Army boot camp fresh out of high school, William "Tony" Farrar Jr. passed all the tests but one: he was too light. The recruiter sent him home for 13 days to fatten him up. After two weeks of eating at his dad's home in Redlands...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Death, Los Angeles Times, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Ask Sam Smith
With Kobe Bryant now saying he wants to be traded what are the chances that the Bulls can swing a deal for him, since he was considering the Bulls when he opted out of his contract a few years ago? What would it take? Would you trade Deng to get him? --...Tags: Troy Murphy, Public Employees, Thabo Sefolosha, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan
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'Idol'
Special to The TimesMike Heim and Christopher Long's "Idol" highlights the pitfalls of improvisation and the mockumentary. Its premise is promisingly daffy but would require a Mel Brooks to pull it off. When the macho star (Matthew Jett Schaefer) of the hit TV series...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Crimes, Entertainment, Television, Minority Groups
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'Rawhide,' 'Blazing Saddles' Theme Singer Dies
Special to The TimesFrankie Laine, the singer with the booming voice who hit it big with such songs as "That Lucky Old Sun," "Mule Train," "Cool Water," "I Believe," "Granada" and "Moonlight Gambler," died Tuesday at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. He was 93. Laine...Tags: Elvis Presley, Bars and Clubs, Depression, Death, Popular Music (genre)
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The Rock Makes a 'Smart' Career Move
Zap2It.comDwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Terence "The Limey" Stamp are the latest actors to join the big screen cast for "Get Smart." Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway have long been attached to play the leads in the Peter Segal-directed version of the TV sitcom,...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Anne Hathaway, Steve Carell, Peter Segal
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'Rocky,' 'Blazing Saddles' Join Nat'l Registry
Zap2It.comThirty years after a beat-up boxer cried "Adrian" on the silver screen, the Oscar-winning "Rocky" has been assured a permanent place in America's film heritage. The first of the boxing films starring Sylvester Stallone is one of the 25 films added to the...Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Clark Gable, Academy Awards, St. Louis Blues, Cary Grant
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