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Northwestern tackles the career (and controversies) of Tyler Perry
There are no sacred cows on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." The show happily skewers its own network along with any number of pop-culture phenomena, and last week's episode was no different, with a running joke aimed squarely in the direction of Tyler Perry,...
Tags: 30 Rock (tv program), Television, OWN (tv network), Oprah Winfrey, Entertainment
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Whitney Houston: Another Hollywood death linked to drugs
L.A. NOWAn autopsy confirmed what many had speculated since Whitney Houston’s death last month of the eve of the Grammy Awards: another high-profile Hollywood death that was linked to drug use. Houston’s death comes three years after Michael Jackson... -
Newport Beach and L.A. Children's Film Festival among highlights
The TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place Thursday through Sunday in Hollywood, isn't the only high-profile fest this weekend. The 14th annual Newport Beach Film Festival kicks off Thursday evening at the Edwards Big Newport with the West Coast...
Tags: Nat Faxon, A Monster in Paris (movie), Entertainment, What Maisie Knew (movie), National Lampoon Incorporated
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Carrie Fisher to hold court at Star Wars Celebration VI
Carrie Fisher has reigned over an empire for more than three decades. As a 19-year-old, she rocketed to fame playing Princess Leia, a regal rebel spy with a distinctive hairstyle, in the original "Star Wars" film of 1977. Two sequels and one shiny bikini...Tags: Orange County Convention Center, Eddie Fisher, James Arnold Taylor, Cartoon Network (tv network), Celebrities
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Park Ridge wants movies and TV shows to pay to film in city
Park Ridge is ready for film and TV stardom, but wants Hollywood to pay for the privilege of filming there. Aldermen overwhelmingly approved on April 1 the first of two votes to require permits for film, photo and video crews that plan to use city...Tags: Courtland, Elections, Disney Channel (tv network), Politics
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San Fernando Valley: 11 micro-itineraries
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south of Ventura Boulevard, where the big money is. Or maybe — now that it'...Tags: The Galleria, Celebrities, Jurassic Park (movie), CSI (tv program), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
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Joliet: A city of steel and stone comes out to play
Hot dog vendors outnumber baristas and poker trumps yoga in Joliet, a city of roughly 147,400 people who play as hard as they work.
"If you can't find something to do here, you're not looking," said Thomas Giarrante, long-time barber and firefighter...Tags: Homes, Museums, Sports, Entertainment, Prisons
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Gwyneth Paltrow, DePaul University, Anthony Hopkins, Uptown, Entertainment
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Shopping malls' greatest movie moments
Los Angeles TimesShopping centers have always been about more than shopping. Before the rise of Internet-based social interaction, malls were a workplace, gathering place and pop culture petri dish for the better part of two generations. That made them the perfect...Tags: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (movie), JC Penney Company Inc., Entertainment, Tommy Lee Jones, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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On a mission from God — via Britain
Once again, sporting their iconic hats, sunglasses, and suits, Jake and Elwood live on in the hit show, "The All-New Original Tribute to The Blues Brothers," which currently is making its West Coast premiere at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. The...
Tags: Concerts, Arts and Culture, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Entertainment
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interviewer, dies
NEW YORK — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were "Mike Wallace...
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — "Mike Wallace is here to see you." The"60 Minutes"newsman had such a fearsome reputation that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English language, capable of reducing an interview subject to a shaking,...
Tags: Health, New Canaan, Television, Harry Shearer, Barbra Streisand
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