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Who will win a Golden Globe? We have our picks
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWith Seth Rogen, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Sacha Baron Cohen and others on board as presenters, Sunday's Golden Globe awards ceremony is clearly hoping not to be a repeat of last year's disastrous telecast. That show amounted to little more than...Tags: Scott E Thomas, Beyonce, Celebrity, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt
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'Wicked' breaks box office record
Defying gravity? It's apparently even easier for the "Wicked" witches to defy a recession. The Chicago production of the Broadway musical is posting a dazzling set of numbers for the week ending Jan. 4: a whopping $1,764,428 in box office income over...Tags: Wicked (musical), Broadway, Music, Theater, Oriental Theater
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Irene C. Henry, 1917-2008: Pioneered home care for mentally disabled children
Tribune reporterDoctors in 1942 told Irene C. Henry to institutionalize her baby girl, born with Down syndrome, because the girl was hopelessly handicapped and probably wouldn't live more than a few years. Mrs. Henry disregarded the doctors and instead helped start a...Tags: Tinley Park, Disability, Oak Lawn, Theater
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Lamos To Take Reins At Westport Country Playhouse
The Hartford CourantMark Lamos is coming back to lead a Connecticut theater, this time in Westport. The 62-year-old Lamos, who built Hartford Stage into a Tony Award-winning, internationally known theater from 1980 to 1997, will be the new artistic director of the...Tags: House and Home, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Joanne Woodward, Michael Wilson
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Lions Club can use your used glasses, hearing aids to help others
Sentinel Staff WriterRepresentatives of the Mount Dora Lions Club will be in front of post offices in Mount Dora, 711 N. Donnelly St., and Eustis, 111 E. Clifford Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 17 to accept donations of used eyeglasses and hearing aids. The nonprofit...Tags: Georges Bizet, Bars and Clubs, Gaetano Donizetti, Music, Montrose
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Music Makeover: One Person's Tricks To Save The Industry
MUSIC AND technology have walked hand in hand since the dawning of records and radio in the early 1900s. In fact, one could argue that without the driving catalyst of musical entertainment, hardware makers from RCA to Sony to Apple would never have turned...Tags: Monsters vs. Aliens (movie), Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Beyonce, Music
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Jack Black finds his country music DNA
Associated PressNEW YORK—Jack Black may have been schooled in rock, but now he'd like to sing at the Grand Ole Opry with wife Tanya Haden's family, who recently turned him on to bluegrass music. The 39-year-old actor-musician energetically sings the traditional...Tags: Bluegrass, Los Angeles, Weezer, Michael Cera, Music
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Lamos Named New Artistic Director At Westport Country Playhouse
The Hartford CourantMark Lamos is back leading a Connecticut theater, this time in Westport. The 62-year-old Lamos, who built Hartford Stage into a Tony Award-winning, internationally known theater from 1980 to 1997, is the new artistic director of the Westport Country...Tags: Christmas, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Holidays, Music
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'Idol' Chat: A Q & A With Taylor Hicks
McClatchy-TribuneWinning "American Idol" doesn't guarantee a successful recording career. Taylor Hicks, the 2006 champ, can't come close to matching the CD sales of either Chris Daughtry or Kellie Pickler, whom TV viewers rejected that season. But the "Idol" title does...Tags: Eric Clapton, Popular Music, Broadway, Music, Theater
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'Batman's' Commissioner Gordon, Pat Hingle, Dies
Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four "Batman" films, has died. He was 84....Tags: Celebrity, William Inge, Hume Cronyn, Clint Eastwood, World War II
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Celebrate the Year of the Ox in New York City's Chinatown with culture, shopping and food
AP Travel EditorNEW YORK (AP) — The Year of the Ox begins Jan. 26 and stores all over Chinatown are selling bright red decorations to mark the new year. But while it's easy to pick up cheap souvenirs at shops around the neighborhood, it's also worth spending a...Tags: House and Home, Vermont, Columbus Park, Buddhism, Festive Event
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