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Red Buttons Dies at 87
Zap2It.comRed Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Music Theater, Perry Como, Ira Gershwin, Defense
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Something's funny about this routine
Special to The TimesOK, stop me if you've heard this one before: A comedy writer walks into Victors Liquor & Delicatessen in Hollywood at 12:30 Sunday afternoon, says hello to owner Bill Gotti and sits down at a table for 10. Pretty soon, a musician joins him. Then a...Tags: Six Feet Under (tv program), Restaurant and Catering Industry, Arts and Culture, Satellite Technology, Documentary (genre)
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Emmy Winner, Oscar Nominee Jack Warden Dies
Zap2It.comJack Warden, a gravel-voiced character actor and two-time Oscar nominee who appeared in nearly 100 feature films, has died. He was 85. Warden, who won an Emmy award for his portrayal of crusty football coach George Halas in the 1971 ABC movie "Brian's...Tags: Television Industry, George Halas, World War II (1939-1945), Movies, Death
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Normandy mission
Times Staff WriterToday, on the 60th anniversary of D-day, world leaders are gathering in Normandy on the north coast of France. Fireworks will light the sky over Arromanches-les-Bains, where the Allies constructed an artificial harbor to support troops infiltrating the...Tags: Heads of State, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Transportation Accidents, Refugee, Arts and Culture
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Funnyman Buddy Hackett dies at 78
![Buddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," died Monday at his home in Malibu. He was 78.](http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-07/8418971.jpg "Buddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man\" and \"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,\" died Monday at his home in Malibu. He was 78.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBuddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,...Tags: Carol Burnett, Hotels and Accommodations, Music Theater, Robert Preston, Theater
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Winning locations
Times Staff WritersEven though Los Angeles has been the center of movie making for most of a century, you wouldn't always know it to look at the movies. Elaborate sets, sound stages and backdrops could transform Los Angeles into any place in the world. That Welsh mining...Tags: Lana Turner, Hotels and Accommodations, Patrick Swayze, Oliver Hardy, Sam Mendes
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