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Smothers Brothers' show is still funny and pointed
Special to NewsdayTom Smothers got a standing ovation at the recent Emmy Awards when he took the stage to accept a statue he'd been due 40 years for helping write CBS' controversial 1968 winner "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour." Smothers then got a huge hand for saying,...Tags: Jim Morrison, Religious Conflicts, Pennsylvania, CBS Corp., Steve Martin
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Rosie O special set for Nov. 26
The TV ZoneRosie's back. And you knew she would be. NBC has just confirmed -- officially -- reports that Ro will headline a variety show on Nov. 26, the night before Thanksgiving, and most notably, the last day of sweeps. Here......Tags: Music Theater, Rosie O'Donnell, NBC, Theater, Cher
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Charles Busch's 'The Third Story' at LaJolla Playhouse
Times Theater CriticLA JOLLA -- Imagine Joan Crawford's stately glamour, Susan Hayward's tough-broad shtick and Carol Burnett's parodic flair all rolled into the same male actor. Yes, the one and only Charles Busch is back on stage, starring in your garden-variety science-...Tags: Susan Hayward, Charles Busch, Imperial and Royal Matters, Mary Pickford, Theater
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Cactus and succulent container gardens
Special to The TimesANNA GOESER'S container gardens -- desert dioramas she calls Mojave bonsai -- started as simple arrangements of cactuses and succulents. Then she began to add roads, cars and people. "They became little worlds," she says. Her inspiration dates to the...Tags: Atwater Village, Santa Monica, Television
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Arthur Miller's one-act noir 'Some Kind of Love Story'
Who knew Arthur Miller yearned to be Mickey Spillane? In his 1982 one-act, "Some Kind of Love Story," now at the Hayworth Theatre, the playwright serves up a dime novel plot complete with trench coats, bishop-tempting blonds and cops on the take....Tags: Literature, Corruption, Arthur Miller, Melrose, Los Angeles
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Belinda Carlisle still on the Go-Go
kevin.amorim@newsday.comIt's freezing in London a few weeks back. "How's the weather there?" Belinda Carlisle asks. When told it's hot, she giggles in that way that she does, and then remembers the Regeneration Tour will land at the Beach. "I love Jones Beach, it is such a great...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Baby Products, Belinda Carlisle, Los Angeles
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'Room' for more of Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke returns to TV Saturday in the Hallmark Channel movie "The Locked Room Mystery," the fourth in a series of "Murder 101" mysteries in which he plays crime-solving professor Jonathan Maxwell. The actor, 82, is, of course, best known for his...Tags: Harvey Korman, Pennsylvania, CBS Corp., Murder, Crimes
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Peters writes a new role for herself
Times Theater CriticSOMEONE'S purse seems to be ringing, and Bernadette Peters assumes it must be hers. Her schedule is jam-packed with publicity appearances for her children's book, "Broadway Barks," a touching story about a dog in need of a home, which comes with a CD of a...Tags: Celebrity, Animals, Bernadette Peters, Books, Gays and Lesbians
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"When You Are Engulfed in Flames": Lively Tales, True Or Near-True
South Florida Sun-SentinelI've long held that the power of good writing trumps all other considerations. Is it by chance that sacred ancient texts, from the Pentateuch to the Gospels, the Tao Te Ching to the Bhagavad-Gita, are without exception great literature? Which brings me... -
New Wave redux rolls into Jones Beach
kevin.amorim@newsday.comWe really did belong to a club. There were degrees of membership, of course -- hey, nice asymmetrical haircut! -- but one thing was for certain: if you were lucky enough to have lived through the new-wave music invasion of the early 1980s, Long Island was...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Eric Clapton, Hal David, Lido Beach, Adam Ant
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Van Dyke returns; here's where he's been
Tribune NewspapersDick Van Dyke returns to TV Saturday in the movie "The Locked Room Mystery" (9 p.m., Hallmark Channel) the fourth in a series of "Murder 101" mysteries in which he plays crime-solving professor Jonathan Maxwell. The actor, 82, is, of course, best known...Tags: Crimes, NBC, Harvey Korman, Dick van Dyke, CBS Corp.
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Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone and other Kravis Center
Special Correspondent for South Florida Sun-SentinelVince Gill or Barbara Cook, Carmen or Avenue Q, Itzhak Perlman or a rock symphony derived from Led Zeppelin tunes. If you can't find something to quicken your pulse in the upcoming season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, then you're not...Tags: Barbara Cook, John Denver, Classical Music, Wynton Marsalis, Florida
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