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National Emergency Alert Test Held Wednesday
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- "This is a test. This is only a test." Millions of Americans heard that warning at 11:00 a.m. PT Wednesday. It marked the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System that would enable the president to address the public...Tags: Entertainment, FEMA, Television Industry, Radio
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Zsa Zsa Gabor's Husband Denies Reports He Wants to Preserve His Wife
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says he does not have any plans to plastinate his wife's body when she dies. Frederic von Anhalt told reporters in Los Angeles Friday that the report in the German newspaper "Bild" was a pack of lies and said he...Tags: Entertainment, Hospitals and Clinics, Movies, Los Angeles, Health
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Zsa Zsa Gabor To Become New Mom at 94?
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says he and his wife are planning to have a baby with the help of artificial insemination and a surrogate mother. 67-year-old Prince Frederic von Anhalt visited a fertility clinic in Beverly Hills on...Tags: CNN (tv network), Social Issues, Los Angeles, John Huston, Beverly Hills
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Director John Hughes Dies at 59
Associated PressLOS ANGELES -- Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone, died Thursday, a spokeswoman...Tags: Entertainment, National Lampoon Incorporated, Arizona, Molly Ringwald, Ralph Lauren
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Justice and Peace laid bare for cash
I know, most of you readers were hoping this week's column would be about dinosaur flatulence, but no, it's time for another installment of "Nude in the News." It's our spasmodically recurring feature, dedicated to the eternal truth that naked people...Tags: Elizabeth II, Science and Technology, Cheese Danish, Steven Spielberg, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cannes Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf all film festivals are balancing acts, it stands to reason that the annual extravaganza at Cannes, likely the world's most celebrated cinematic event, has more to balance than most. Especially this year. Opening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's...Tags: Entertainment, Andrei Konchalovsky, Lee Daniels, Film Festivals, Harmony Korine
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Movie review: The glorious 'Grand Illusion'
Jean Renoir's 1937"Grand Illusion," one of the most admired — and one of the most feared — films ever made, returns to theatrical screens in a fine digital restoration taken from the original camera negative just in time to celebrate its...
Tags: Entertainment, Ceremonies, World War I (1914-1918), Germany, Grand Illusion (movie)
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Cannes 2012: Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
24 FramesOpening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's oddly endearing “Moonrise Kingdom,” the Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year and marking that milestone by embracing all kinds of opposites: old and young, dramatic... -
Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Florenz Ziegfeld, Reviews, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Katharine Hepburn, Fiction
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"Great Old Old Broad" Series: Eartha Kitt
Hartford CourantLast Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I began my "Great Old Broad"...Tags: Entertainment, Maureen Stapleton, Eartha Kitt, Elizabeth Ashley, Central Intelligence Agency
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Review: Eddie Izzard the real prize in Syfy's 'Treasure Island'
"Treasure Island," the 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel about 17th century buccaneers sailing for buried booty, has been translated again to film, with Eddie Izzard as the one-legged, parrot-toting Long John Silver — a role previously inhabited...
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Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92.
Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...Tags: Entertainment, Karl Malden, David O. Selznick, England, Romance (genre)
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