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Glen Head woman having fun wearing senior crown
sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.comIt was a monumental effort to get Carol Schulz to show up for the auditions for the Ms. New York Senior America. Good thing her friends were persistent, or she wouldn't be traveling to Atlantic City this month to compete in the Ms. Senior America Pageant....Tags: Retirement, Frank Sinatra, North Carolina, New York, Citigroup Incorporated
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Hi-de-hi! Plans to preserve Cab Calloway's NY home
If those walls could talk! Officials in New York's Westchester County are working with Cab Calloway's family on efforts to reacquire and preserve the home of the renowned jazz musician and bandleader. Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr. and...Tags: Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, New York, Music Industry
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A Legend's Tangled Affairs
Associated PressFor all the grief that Sammy Davis Jr. took in life — remember the uproar over his embrace of Richard Nixon? — he's getting it even worse in death. Eighteen years after the legendary entertainer succumbed to throat cancer at age 64, his...Tags: Justice and Rights, Television, Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King Jr., Elvis Presley
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With Time Came Smaller And Smaller Clocks
Editor's note: Ralph Kovel died Aug. 28 at age 88. The Kovels' column is written several weeks in advance. Clocks have been made in forms that depend on the size and shape of the clock's mechanism. The 18th-century tall-case, or grandfather, clock was...Tags: Movies, Sales, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Ohio, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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'SNL' returns with spotlight on presidential impersonators
The Associated Press"You can just feel it simmering," says Darrell Hammond while walking down the hallways of Studio 8H with his hands out, as if he can touch the energy around the new season of " Saturday Night Live" pulsating from the walls. The premiere of "SNL" is...Tags: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Political Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Will Ferrell
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Super Bowl hero Tyree out 1st 6 weeks for Giants
Associated PressWide receiver David Tyree was placed on the physically-unable-to-perform list by the New York Giants on Tuesday, meaning the player who made a game-saving catch in the Super Bowl won't be making any for at least the first six weeks of the season. Tyree,...Tags: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dan Rooney, Football, New England Patriots, Multi-Sport Events
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Deconstructing 'The Candy Man'
Defined by talent alone, Sammy Davis Jr. was an inspiring entertainer who rose to stardom, embraced by a world that cast racial prejudices aside. Defined by his failure to manage money and his links to the mob, Sammy Davis Jr. became a tragic figure. ''...Tags: Lawyers, Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King Jr., Justice System, Organized Crime
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Blackman brings her drum thunder to Artists Collective
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTRefusing to be pigeon-holed into any simplistic stylistic category, the versatile drummer Cindy Blackman can make rhythms surge for virtually any genre, whether jazz, rock, funk or fusion. Both a power drummer who takes no prisoners, and an African...Tags: Joe Henderson, Steve Buscemi, Jazz Music, New Britain, Ohio
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Tyler Perry branches out
You'd think world domination would be enough.
But, no, Tyler Perry isn't satisfied by his box-office-busting success in four artistic genres: film, TV, books and live theater.
He's not content that, in the past 15 years, he's gone from living in his car...Tags: Alfre Woodard, Jazz Music, Movies, Kathy Bates, Film Festivals
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'Mister Lonely' Misses
Courant Staff WriterHarmony Korine is evolving, somewhat. The director of "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey Boy" has created visually and narratively ugly stories of losers and loners, films as uninspiring to look at as to listen to. With " Mister Lonely," at least the "visually...Tags: Movies, Abraham Lincoln, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Mister Lonely
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A 'Willy Wonka' confection on Navy Pier
A year or two ago, a major Broadway producer told me, sotto voce, that he thought he had the Broadway rights to "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Well, I thought: Oompa, Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do. It's hard to imagine better source material for a...Tags: Music Theater, Movies, Plant Openings, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Defense
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Beloit's Mindset List
Associated PressBeloit College's annual Mindset List, providing a snapshot of the world view of the school's incoming freshmen, for the Class of 2012: Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990. For these students, Sammy Davis Jr....Tags: Football, Radio Industry, Nintendo Company Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation, Binney and Smith
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