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Laura Ziskin's latest sequel
By Steve Pond, The EnvelopeLaura Ziskin is looking forward to producing the 79th Academy Awards, which means she's also looking back at producing the 74th Oscars. "It's harder the second time," says Ziskin, whose first outing as Oscar producer took place when the Kodak Theater was...Tags: Cirque du Soleil, Woody Allen, Sports, Entertainment, Halle Berry
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Hillary Clinton: Wild card in veepstakes
The Swampby James Oliphant and Jim Tankersley One virtue of this late start to the general-election campaign for the White House is that it leaves less time than usual for the ritual of back-porch punditry: identifying that sure-to-be vice-presidential pick. As......Tags: Ted Strickland, Executive Branch, History, Sports, George W. Bush
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From D-Day to the Elbe River
Of The Morning CallPhillipsburg native Earl R. Metz was working at Hercules Powder Co. when the Army drafted him during World War II. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the 23-year-old sergeant led a squad of combat engineers ashore in the second wave at Omaha Beach. From Normandy,...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Firearms, Science and Technology, Nazi Party, Sports
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Park City, ski-free
Times Staff WriterAs the country's best-known film festival opens Thursday, one drama that already has generated considerable buzz will play out off-screen: Park City's love-hate relationship with Sundance. Hotels and restaurants love the Sundance Film Festival,...Tags: Luge Doubles, Tourism and Leisure, Sports, Hotels and Accommodations, Personal Service
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Seeking Acceptance, Rugby Gives It a Try
Times Staff WriterIt can't hurt rugby's chances of being added to the Summer Olympics that Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, played for the Belgian national rugby team in his youth. "We'd like to think it might help," said Greg Thomas,...Tags: Health, 2016 Olympic Games, Sports, Multi-Sport Events, The Home Depot
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The glow around Lake Placid
Hartford CourantPast the Cottage Cafe's wood-burning stove and the picture windows, snow swirls around the spotlights that shine on a cleared patch of frozen lake. A dozen bundled kids with hockey sticks blur by, chasing a puck. Some end up in a drift on the edge of the...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Sports, Hotels and Accommodations, ESPN (tv network), Multi-Sport Events
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Getting Up Close and Vertical With the Summer X Games
TIMES STAFF WRITERDoes the sight of bicycle motocross riders sailing through the air silhouetted against a sunset sky or street lugers careening downhill at 80 mph, inches from splattering themselves on the asphalt, strike you as particularly athletic or artistic? Your...Tags: Sports, 2016 Olympic Games, Documentary (genre), Bruce Hendricks, Entertainment
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Andre's Steakhouse/Fort Lauderdale
Sun-SentinelSteakhouses are considered the epitome of beef eater posh -- from handsomely appointed surroundings to the prime aged beef and solicitous service that marks these high-end spots a destination for carnivores. Andre's, a knockoff of Brooklyn's Peter...Tags: Sports, Onions, Lifestyle and Leisure, Potatoes, Dining and Drinking
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15 things to watch at the Games
Sun StaffThe Olympics are a beehive of activity. Here are a few aspects that should command your attention. 1. Security. The security plan cost $300 million, so it had better work. Spectators may face a two-hour wait to get through the "mag and bag" metal...Tags: Short-track Speed Skating, Ice Skating, Sports, George W. Bush, FIFA World Cup
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That Was Then, This Is Now
Special to The TimesIf you are lucky, this is the way cancer treatment ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Let's see, of the treatments listed for me in November: chemo--it's done; surgery--done; radiation--done. It remained only to go see my oncologist, Dr. James Waisman,...Tags: Health, Mammogram, Julia Child, Chemotherapy, 2016 Olympic Games
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No fear: Dangers facing Winter Olympians
Orlando Sentinel staff writerThey twist in the winter's chill defying gravity, whip through icy courses feeling the pull of three G's squeezing their face, and take to the air like birds without wings. Winter Olympics athletes aren't necessarily crazy, but it would be a nice...Tags: Health, 2016 Olympic Games, Sports, Bobsleigh, Multi-Sport Events
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Fans of Winter Games also to see guns, dogs
Orlando Sentinel, a Tribune Co. newspaperSALT LAKE CITY -- Utah welcomes the world with open arms and a warm embrace this week. Just don't mind those National Guard troops, German shepherds and F-16s buzzing overhead. The 2002 Winter Games will stage its eclectic smorgasbord of sports for the...Tags: Luge Doubles, Short-track Speed Skating, Executive Branch, Sports, George W. Bush
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