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Ebert and Siskel: Partners shared unique relationship
This is a feature story from 1999. At the time, Sid Smith was a Tribune Arts Critic. On the day of Gene Siskel's funeral, Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel suggested that the on-air chemistry between Siskel and Roger Ebert defied analysis....Tags: Radio, Penn Jillette, Paul McCartney, Cher, George Burns
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Still keeping time at 100
Viola Smith pulled up to her 100th birthday party in a pedi-cab and entered, appropriately, to a drumroll. As one of the first mainstream female drummers, Smith was a pioneer for women in music who earned her fame during World War II, a breakthrough...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Bud Abbott, Entertainment, Music
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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 28
Senior center near golf course would be wonderful To the editor: As a 40-year resident of Willard Street, my family and I would absolutely love to see this senior center go in across the street from us. A few additional points that would make this...Tags: Medicare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bud Abbott, Politics, Barack Obama
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WWII life comes back for a weekend in Williamsport
andrews@herald-mail.comLast month, the local focus was on the 150th anniversary of key battles in the Civil War. This weekend, Williamsport is remembering the times of World War II. There are encampments, re-enactments, stories, music and more at Springfield Farm. Even the...Tags: Bud Abbott, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Comedy (genre)
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Female Army vet shares stories from World War II
chrisc@herald-mail.comIt's been almost 70 years since a young New York City woman traveled from Brooklyn to Manhattan and enlisted in the U.S. Army. But for Florence "Flo" Miles, 90 and now living in Hagerstown, the memories are still vivid. Especially when she pages...Tags: Japan, Manhattan (New York City), New York City, Armed Forces, World War II (1939-1945)
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Liberty ship sets sail for the 1940s
The last time Donald Halverson was on a Liberty ship, he was heading across the Atlantic Ocean, a fresh-faced draftee who would spend the next 21/2 years fighting his way across Germany, France, Italy and North Africa during World War II.
A more recent...Tags: Arts and Culture, Shipbuilding, World War II (1939-1945), Travel, Arts
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Newton: Deputy Mayor Guillermo Cespedes, L.A.'s go-to guy on gangs
There were 11 gang shootings in Los Angeles over this year's Father's Day weekend, a holiday that can be bittersweet for young men alienated from their fathers. Deputy Mayor Guillermo Cespedes, who heads Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's anti-gang efforts, was...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Politics, Family, Gang Activity, Softball
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'The Abbott and Costello Show: Hit the Road'
Zap2ItAfter they'd pretty much had their heyday in movies, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello took their comedy act to television in a syndicated series that cast them as actors always looking for their next gig. Several episodes are compiled in this release, which...Tags: Television, Bud Abbott, Entertainment, DVDs
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 14, 1941
The Daily MirrorNov. 14, 1941: One unpublicized reason for Lou Costello's New York jaunt is a conference with his pal, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, anent screening of His Honor's life story -- with Costello in the title role, Jimmie Fidler says.... -
Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Wipeout' on ABC
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of June 20 - 26 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here WET AND WILD: Contestants try their luck on a series of...... -
Dorothy Provine dies at 75; actress in 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' and 'The Roaring Twenties'TV series
Dorothy Provine, who played the singing, high-kicking flapper in the early-1960s TV series "The Roaring Twenties" and appeared in the all-star movie comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," has died. She was 75.
Provine, a longtime resident of...Tags: Robert Day, Jack Lemmon, Bars and Clubs, George Burns, Dining and Drinking
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Anthony Hopkins on the secret of his spooky success: 'I like to act like a submarine'
The Hero ComplexAnthony Hopkins is back in scary-movie mode with "The Wolfman" and the actor who was once voted the best villain in film history says he's not really sure why he has become an icon in shadowy genres of cinema. "I......
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