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Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys mark 100th show on April 4
L.A. singer and pop music preservationist Janet Klein will celebrate her 100th performance of a nine-year-and-running residency in Hollywood with a show April 4 that highlights vintage popular songs from the 1920s and 1930s. Klein and her band, the...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Industry, The Rolling Stones (music group), George M. Cohan
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Fallon's in, Leno's out: NBC courts younger viewers
RedEyeNBC ramped up its fight to gain a younger late-night audience by confirming Wednesday that Jimmy Fallon will take over as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2014. Ending weeks of gossip, NBC made the announcement that current host Jay Leno would end his...Tags: Entertainment, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (tv program), New York City, TBS (tv network), Saint Patrick
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Could a move to New York revitalize 'The Tonight Show'?
If the rumors are true and “The Tonight Show” is set to return to its ancestral home at 30 Rockefeller Plaza with Jimmy Fallon as host, the move would be a boon for New York City – and maybe even the aging late-night genre itself. A...
Tags: David Letterman, Brooklyn (New York City), Entertainment, 30 Rock (tv program), Sid Caesar
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Change of coasts for 'Tonight' could mean a big shift
For more than 40 years, a studio at the corner of Olive and Alameda avenues in Burbank has been churning out a show that keeps viewers up late. But with NBC's "Tonight Show" poised to migrate back to New York, Southern California is in danger of losing...Tags: David Letterman, Entertainment, 30 Rock (tv program), Sid Caesar, New York City
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Gordon Stoker dies at 88; sang with group backing Elvis Presley
Gordon Stoker, the lead tenor in the Jordanaires vocal group that backed Elvis Presley, died Wednesday at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., after a lengthy illness, his son, Alan, told the Associated Press. He was 88. Stoker joined the Jordanaires in 1950,...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold
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NBC cans Leno again -- do they really mean it this time?
Jay Leno had to know the head honchos at NBC were gunning for him when he told the following joke last Monday night: "You know the whole legend of St. Patrick, right?" he asked the audience in his opening monologue. "St. Patrick drove all the snakes out...
Tags: Entertainment, NBC (tv network), New York City, Saint Patrick, Awards and Prizes
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Tim Rowland: A heroic effort, an historic conviction
Hattie Carroll finally has a seat at the head of the table, and for that she has Hagers-town to thank. It’s an honor the black kitchen helper never had in life, as folk singer Bob Dylan angrily pointed out in his ballad, “The Lonesome Death...
Tags: Fred Astaire, Justice System, Entertainment, Prosecution, Lawyers
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The long, unhappy pageant of Mary Leona Gage
Sun ReporterOh, don't you remember, a long time ago When two little babes, their names I don't know Were stolen away one bright summer day And lost in the woods, I've heard people say --Traditional lullaby As a mother, she would sing it to her children. As a child,...Tags: Entertainment, Sports, Health, Social Issues, Sex
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PASSINGS: Peter Meyerson, Fran Warren, Max Jakobson
Peter Meyerson TV writer, producer worked on 'The Monkees' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Peter Meyerson, 81, a TV writer and producer who co-wrote the debut episodes of sitcom classics "The Monkees" and "Welcome Back, Kotter," died March 11 at Hoag...
Tags: Entertainment, Billy Eckstine, Heart Problems, Bronx (New York City), Ron Palillo
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Zantzinger, Carroll trial being commemorated 50 years later at Washington County museum
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.com“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’ And the cops were called in and his weapon...Tags: Punishment, Prosecution, Judges, Racism, Trials
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James DePreist dies at 76; artistic advisor to Pasadena Symphony
James DePreist, artistic advisor to the Pasadena Symphony and Pops and one of the few African American conductors to lead major orchestras in the United States and abroad, died Friday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 76. The cause was...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, University of Pennsylvania, Culture, Itzhak Perlman
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Off Center and all together
Natalia Kaliada has faced rejection from arts facilities, endured police raids, been arrested and lived in exile for more than two years. All of that for one cause: a relentless commitment to free thought and expression. As the founding co-artistic...
Tags: Entertainment, Belarus, Artists, Fine Artists, Skype
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