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82Club 33: Exclusive Disneyland Dining and A Little Extra Magic
The door may not look any fancier from the others on ornate New Orleans Square. After the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion rides it seems pretty unspectacular. But if your day at Disneyland in...
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80Gladiators: The Facts
Greeks say the Etruscans (the ancient tribe in Tuscany) started the games, but there's no physical evidence of that. As far as scholars can tell, small scale gladiatorial combat was the standard entertainment...
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70Mary Pickford's Oscars
Three Oscars: two awarded to Mary Pickford and one to her last husband, Buddy Rogers, are in the news. Rogers' heirs want to sell the Oscars at auction, which horrifies most film buffs. The folks who give out...
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77Hatshepsut: A Fat Egyptian! Yeah!
CT scans identify the mummy of femme Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled during the 18th dynasty--roughly 1502 to 1482 B.C. This is big news. A story was in the Los Angeles Times this morning. Reuters reports it as...
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71Hollywood Costume Design
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design is the latest book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Landis knows her stuff: she's President of the Hollywood Costume Designers Guild and has been nominated for an...
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74Movie and Radio Museums--Who Has What?
Museums everywhere slug it out for dibs on artifacts. Sometimes their fights make the front page--as when Italy went after the J. Paul Getty Museum, threatening its former curator with jail because of certain...
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76Chat Noir: The First Cabaret
You've seen this poster in art shops and on walls. Did you know it referred to a real place: the first cabaret? Le Chat Noir opened in 1881 in a tiny apartment in Montmartre. When it closed in 1897 (in a...
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76Most Romantic Weekend: OC, California
Laguna Beach, in Orange County, California, is a romantic and lovely spot. Pricey, too. Laguna boasts a combination of luxury hotels and resorts, art museums and trendy shops, a thriving art community, and...
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74Swimming Pool Milestones
Last August, I clipped a "Swimming Pool Timeline" out of the Los Angeles Times, because it had some fun trivia in it. Now that the weather's turning cold, it's nice to imagine the faint smell of chlorine, and...
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66Hollywood Rehab: Uncommon Luxury is the New Rock Bottom
Lindsay, Paris, Nicole, Britney. . . how ironic that for seventy years, AA has used only first names. These girls should fit right in. Chances are, whenever you read this, one of the lovely ladies above has...
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