John Barry

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A For the Record item in Wednesday’s print edition noted the publication of an incorrect photo with the obituary of Oscar-winning composer John Barry. The photo, which ran on the cover of Tuesday's LATExtra section, was actually of film editor......

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The owner of a tattered American flag that was taken down and destroyed after a local veteran thought it was disrespectful says he is not anti-American in pursuing the criminal case against the man who took his property. In fact, John Barry Granfield...

Karl Edward Baldner didn't like what he saw, a tattered and torn American flag flying from a small business across from the Goldenrod Post Office just east of Winter Park. The U.S. Army veteran strongly believes the flag should be displayed properly...

The marketing expert credited with making WD-40 a household name died this month at a skilled-nursing home in La Jolla, it was reported. John S. Barry was 84 when he died July 3 at White Sands, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. Barry joined...

In the first three paragraphs of a release introducing Grammy-winning vocalist Michael Bubl??'s new album, he is mentioned in the same sentence as a choirboy, Elvis and Louis Armstrong. Curious company, but needless to say when an artist sells in......

"Born Free," the inspiring book about a real-life British couple living in Africa who raise a lion cub, inspired a heartwarming film, other movies and even a TV series. But the actual story of George and Joy Adamson and the......

Locals presented at guild ball in Pasadena Seven young women from La Cañada Flintridge were among 34 who took their bows to society last month when the Pasadena Guild of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles held its 49th June Debutante Ball in the ballroom of...

John Barry, the unpretentious Midwesterner who made a San Diego product called WD-40 into a national sensation by "breaking all the Harvard Business School rules," died July 3 at a skilled nursing facility in La Jolla of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 84....

Arthur Ferrante, one half of the piano duo Ferrante and Teicher whose lush orchestral recordings of 1960s movie themes propelled them to popular and commercial success, has died. He was 88. Ferrante died of natural causes early Saturday at his home in...

"ALICE IN WONDERLAND": 28 DAYS Are you ready for a trip down the rabbit hole? Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Disney are adding a strange new chapter to the Lewis Carroll classic with "Alice in Wonderland," a film that presents......