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Bonnie Hunt prepares (sort of) for daytime TV
Channel IslandSPEND AN hour or so with Bonnie Hunt these days and you come away convinced she's got a daytime talk show inside her head. The only question now is whether she and her producers can extract and polish that vision within the next three weeks, when "The...Tags: ABC (tv network), The Second City, Tony Danza, Queen Latifah, Ellen DeGeneres
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Review: 'Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon'
Special to The TimesIf the name Jack Sheldon doesn't ring a bell, consider this: Music elite and bebop fans widely consider him the greatest living jazz trumpeter. This unheralded maestro, a founder of the West Coast jazz movement, has, since the 1950s, performed...Tags: Movies, Peggy Lee, Entertainment, Carnegie Hall, Billy Crystal
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TV Hall of Fame inductees named
![The star of "Maude," a creative force behind "MASH," a talk show host and the creator of "Gilligan's Island" were among those announced Thursday for induction into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-04/37976183-17180425.jpg "The star of "Maude,\" a creative force behind \"MASH,\" a talk show host and the creator of \"Gilligan's Island\" were among those announced Thursday for induction into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.")
The star of "Maude," a creative force behind "MASH," a talk show host and the creator of "Gilligan's Island" were among those announced Thursday for induction into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
"Their respective careers have...Tags: Los Angeles Times, The Brady Bunch (tv program), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Larry Gelbart, Sherwood Schwartz
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'I Love My Wife' at Brentwood Theatre
![If Masters and Johnson had been a musical writing team instead of sex researchers regularly appearing on TV talk shows, they might very well have come up with something similar to "I Love My Wife." The 1977 musical, about two guys from Trenton, N.J., who want to spice up their marital beds by swapping partners for a night, tries to push the erotic envelope -- but not so much that it will offend the Mike Douglas-Merv Griffin set.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43745277-08092016.jpg "If Masters and Johnson had been a musical writing team instead of sex researchers regularly appearing on TV talk shows, they might very well have come up with something similar to "I Love My Wife.\" The 1977 musical, about two guys from Trenton, N.J., who want to spice up their marital beds by swapping partners for a night, tries to push the erotic envelope -- but not so much that it will offend the Mike Douglas-Merv Griffin set.")
Theater CriticIf Masters and Johnson had been a musical writing team instead of sex researchers regularly appearing on TV talk shows, they might very well have come up with something similar to "I Love My Wife." The 1977 musical, about two guys from Trenton, N.J.,...Tags: Lea Thompson, Patrick Cassidy, Entertainment, Jason Alexander, Clubs and Associations
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Blossom Dearie dies at 82; jazz and cabaret singer
Blossom Dearie, the singer and songwriter whose sweet soprano voice, harmonically innovative piano stylings and sophisticated performances made her a popular attraction in jazz and cabaret for nearly half a century, has died. She was 82.
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Malibu's backyard vintners
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCALLUSED palms and bandaged fingers; broken fingernails stained black with dirt -- Hollywood actor and director Emilio Estevez proudly shows off his vineyard worker hands as he walks the vine rows. Four years ago, Estevez planted this half-acre Pinot...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Dining and Drinking, Los Angeles Times, Restaurants, Bee (insect)
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Mr. Big Becomes 'My One and Only'
Zap2It.comChris Noth will take a male lead in "My One and Only," opposite Renee Zellweger. Richard Loncraine is directing the film, which is based on an anecdote actor George Hamilton once shared with Merv Griffin, according to Variety. Charlie Peters scripted...Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Movies, Renee Zellweger, Entertainment, George Hamilton
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Saying farewell with warmth and laughter
When Arnold Schwarzenegger met Merv Griffin, the bodybuilder was newly arrived in California from Austria and had never been on a talk show. But as now-Gov. Schwarzenegger recalled in a speech punctuated by laughter Friday afternoon at Griffin's...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Ellen DeGeneres, Government, Roman Catholicism, Politics
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Joan Rivers is more than skin deep
Probably the last thing one would expect to hear at the Magic Theatre, long an incubator of groundbreaking theatrical work, is the sound of Joan Rivers throwing it to her daughter Melissa on the red carpet. Yet this unmistakable voice has been...Tags: Surgery, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles Times, Fashion Shows, CNN (tv network)
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GSN Pays Tribute to Griffin
Zap2It.comThe man who built a game-show empire will receive a tribute this weekend on, appropriately enough, a network devoted to games. GSN will celebrate the TV legacy of Merv Griffin with marathons of Griffin-produced shows, plus a couple of his vintage on-...Tags: Sports, Entertainment, Game Shows, Prostate Cancer, Marathon
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; founded Transcendental Meditation movement
![Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, who taught the Beatles to meditate, made "mantra" a household word in the 1970s and built a multimillion-dollar empire on a promise of inner harmony and world peace, died Tuesday in Vlodrop, the Netherlands. He was believed to have been 91.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-02/35267905-05154156.jpg "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, who taught the Beatles to meditate, made "mantra\" a household word in the 1970s and built a multimillion-dollar empire on a promise of inner harmony and world peace, died Tuesday in Vlodrop, the Netherlands. He was believed to have been 91.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMaharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, who taught the Beatles to meditate, made "mantra" a household word in the 1970s and built a multimillion-dollar empire on a promise of inner harmony and world peace, died...Tags: Cults and Sects, John Lennon, Los Angeles, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Joe Namath
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Joey Bishop Dead at 89
Zap2It.comJoey Bishop, the deadpan comedian who was ABC's answer to NBC's late-night talk show king Johnny Carson in the late 1960s and was the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's legendary Rat Pack, has died. He was 89. Bishop, who had been in failing health...Tags: Newport Beach, ABC (tv network), Dining and Drinking, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop
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