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Friday | Daily Herald

Porter pigs, sauce and such

When I was young, I became enthralled with the romanticism of a pig roast. This idea lived entirely in my imagination clarified by reading Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Giant" and watching the ...

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Related Topix: Elizabeth Taylor, Texas, Life, Food, Bar-B-Q, Recipes

Tue Oct 07, 2008

DVD Verdict

The Martian Chronicles

Appellate Judge David Ryan asks that you please refrain from sending him any "but what about the expedition to explore the rings around Uranus" feedback.

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Related Topix: The Martian Chronicles, Entertainment, Television, McMillan and Wife, Drama, Astronomy, Science, Boston Metro

Mon Oct 06, 2008

Fausta's blog

Jaded eyes on 60s lies: Lover Come Back

AMC 's playing Lover Come Back with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. The IMDB summarizes the plot Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies.

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Related Topix: Lover Come Back, Comedy Movies, Send Me No Flowers, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Tony Randall

Sun Sep 28, 2008

Fredericksburg.com

Different as Night and 'Day'

It is difficult to imagine a greater contradiction between screen persona and real life than that of Doris Day, born Doris Kappelhoff in 1922 in a suburb of Cincinnati.

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Thriller, Caprice

Thu Sep 25, 2008

MiddletownJournal

Middletown film series returns

Middletown's Celluloid Society returns this weekend with its second year of cult and classic films shown for free.

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Related Topix: Patty Duke, Middletown, DE, Sharon Tate, Music!, Drama, Valley of the Dolls, Family, The Red Shoes, Entertainment

Tue Sep 16, 2008

Desert Sun

Palm Springs film fest to show movie at CSUSB Palm Desert

A free screening of the 1955 film, 'All That Heaven Allows,' will be hosted by the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino, at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Palm Desert, CA, Drama, All That Heaven Allows, Cal State San Bernardino, Riverside Metro, San Bernardino, CA

Sun Sep 07, 2008

Courierpress.com

For Indy fan, a Day in your life means living a dream

Mary Ann Barothy of Indianapolis is proof dreams can come true, especially if kismet, a bakery and Doris Day are on your side.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Los Angeles, CA, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, The Doris Day Show, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!

Fri Aug 22, 2008

Bostonist

Wednesday Happenings

Douglas Sirk was the master of suburban melodrama, and his 1955 film All That Heaven Allows remains a textbook example of the genre.

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Related Topix: Jane Wyman, Cambridge, MA, Drama, All That Heaven Allows, Somerville, MA, Boston, MA

Wed Aug 20, 2008

River Cities' Reader

Drive-in Community

One of my clearest memories from childhood is seeing the 1978 disaster "epic" Avalanche - starring Mia Farrow and Rock Hudson! - with my family, and roaring at the ridiculous dialogue and effects .

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Related Topix: Mia Farrow, Crime Movies, Drama, Action, Avalanche, Thriller, Galesburg, IL, Galva, IL

Fri Aug 15, 2008

Filmexperience.blogspot.com

Same Old Story

Jonathan here again. So, they're aging Kate Winslet for The Reader , huh? Well looking back through the history of actors in age make-up one thing's clear; Kate's not going to look like this when she gets ...

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Related Topix: Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean

Wed Aug 06, 2008

WWTC-AM Eagan

The Sky Isn't Falling

In this column I often take a skeptical look at liberal scare-mongering about global warming and cancer threats from pesticides, Teflon frying pans, plastic bottles, cell phones, etc.

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Related Topix: Lucille Ball, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, I Love Lucy, Comedy Movies, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Opinion

Tue Aug 05, 2008

Helium

Hollywood and homosexuality: Keeping sexuality under wraps

HOLLYWOOD AND HOMOSEXUALITY: Who IS gay in Hollywood? Why is it covered up with such militant precision? What does it say about Hollywood's attitude to gay actors and the gay community as a whole? There have ...

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

Sat Jul 26, 2008

Express India

A Sunny Day?

Not true, says a new biography of blonde, bouncy actress Doris Day Her life on screen played like an American fairy tale.

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Related Topix: Alfred Hitchcock, Vocal, Carmel, CA, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Lover Come Back, Comedy Movies

Tue Jul 15, 2008

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

A Giant Mistake

I watched the movie "Giant" the other night. Hadn't seen it since I was a kid when I thought it was just about the greatest movie ever.

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Related Topix: Texas, James Dean, Dakota State University

Sun Jul 13, 2008

The Spectator

Slow fade

Alex Massie joins the debate over the greatest film endings of all time. For me, it has to be the chilling final moments of "Seconds" , as Rock Hudson's ill-starred character gradually realizes what is about to ...

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Fri Jul 11, 2008

Today's Zaman

New Doris Day biography paints less than idyllic life

David Kaufman is the author of the new biography, "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door." Her life on screen played like an American fairy tale.

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Related Topix: Alfred Hitchcock, Vocal, Easy-Listening, Doris Day

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Los Angeles Times

A new biography looks into the shadows and 'Untold Story' of Doris Day

HER LIFE on screen played like an American fairy tale. Blond, bouncy and beautiful, Doris Day captivated mid-20th century moviegoers in a series of rollicking romantic comedies with her favorite leading man, ...

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Related Topix: Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Lover Come Back, Entertainment

Sun Jun 22, 2008

Gay & Lesbian Books

Bette Bourne plays the Hollywood icon Rock Hudson's agent in a new...

There's a scene in City of Night, John Rechy's landmark gay novel, in which the narrator surveys the graffiti on a lavatory wall.

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Fri Jun 20, 2008

O-R Online

Theatergoers will fall in love with Off the Wall's 'Ancient History'

David Ives' two-character play "Ancient History," a romantic comedy with a big warm heart and also a small chip on its shoulder, starts telling the story of Jack and Ruth living together, in love, long after ...

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Press-Enterprise

Film festival honors movie queens

"Drama Queens," a series of films with melodramatics and strong women characters, is being presented by the Palm Springs International Film Society.

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Related Topix: Claude Rains, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Malone, Bette Davis, Movies, Entertainment

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