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'Barnstormers' mixes sports, booze and personal anecdote
"Barnstormers" "Dear Lord, when we drink and write," the performing duo of Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda intone at the start of their latest Drinking & Writing Theater project, before offering the solemn promise to "write until we puke" or at least...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Eugene O'Neill
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In search of 'Jewish Jocks'
Mention the phrase "Jewish sports legends" and you'll probably conjure up familiar suspects: Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz, maybe that joke from "Airplane." You're more likely to omit Sidney Franklin, a matador from Brooklyn (real last name: Frumpkin), or...Tags: George Halas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babe Ruth, Detroit Tigers, Yom Kippur
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Old Hollywood lingers at Chez Jay
When piped-in music and a bar's history perfectly align, it makes for a sweet cocktail of synchronicity, a besotted wink from the intimate interior that makes all the drinkers lean into their liquor just a little bit more.
On a recent Sunday night, the...Tags: Ben Affleck, Ernest Hemingway, Matt Damon, Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty
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Movieland Mystery Photo
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo I suppose you thought we would never finish with Thelma Todd! Yesterday’s mystery photo was taken in 1964 and shows Harold Lloyd with his famous “permanent” Christmas tree. His mystery dog was named Pepe. Los...... -
An American matador's encounters with bulls and Hemingway
Jacket CopyJuly might be a month of sultry summer heat and a time to celebrate American independence, but for the literary set it's also a month of anniversaries for Ernest Hemingway and for those who lived in his rough-and-tumble world. Aside......
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