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By Mary Carole McCauley | June 9, 2009
Valerie Harper is on the phone, and she can't stop talking about Tallulah. The 68-year-old actress is known for her portrayals of strong-willed women. After creating the role of television's quintessential Jewish single girl, Rhoda Morgenstern, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Harper has since depicted figures as diverse as author Pearl S. Buck and former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. There isn't a wimp in the bunch. At the moment, Harper is borderline obsessed with the daunting task of bringing to life Tallulah Bankhead, the actress and party girl of the 1920s and 1930s who was known as much for her bon mots and bad behavior as for her beauty.
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By From Sun staff and news services | April 28, 2009
'Black List' screening, talk on MICA campus Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell will be in Baltimore tonight for a screening of Greenfield-Sanders' new documentary, The Black List: Volume Two. The film features interviews, conducted offscreen by Mitchell, with more than a dozen prominent African-Americans, including activist Angela Davis, Pastor T.D. Jakes, comedian Maya Rudolph, medical researcher Valerie...
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By From Sun news services | April 23, 2009
Jolie said to next play Cornwell's heroine Angelina Jolie has reportedly signed on to play Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the crime-solving medical examiner in mystery novelist Patricia Cornwell's best-selling series, according to Variety. The trade publication notes that although there are 16 Scarpetta novels, this film won't focus on a specific Cornwell title. In the novels, Scarpetta, the tough-as-nails forensic examiner, has a messy love life and a penchant for opera and Italian cooking. Before relocating to Massachusetts, she was the chief medical examiner of Virginia.
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By FROM SUN NEWS SERVICES | March 24, 2009
Williams recovering from heart surgery Robin Williams is recovering at a hospital in Cleveland after having heart surgery his doctors deemed successful. The 57-year-old actor had an operation to replace an aortic valve at the Cleveland Clinic on March 13. Publicists Mara Buxbaum and Chris Kanarick say he is expected to make a complete recovery in the next eight weeks. Wedding bells Bruce Willis has tied the knot for the second time. The actor's publicity agency, Rogers & Cowan, said in a statement Sunday that the 54-year-old Willis married 30-year-old model-actress Emma Heming in a small, private ceremony at his home in Parrot Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands.
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By FROM SUN NEWS SERVICES | March 23, 2009
Family and friends gather for Natasha Richardson's funeral A somber group of friends and family gathered in Lithgow, N.Y., yesterday to say a final farewell to Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson. Liam Neeson, in a dark suit and sunglasses, was at the head of the casket as he and five other pallbearers carried his wife's coffin into St. Peter's Episcopal Church, near the home where the two married in 1994. He and Richardson's mother, actress Vanessa Redgrave, waved to the dozens of reporters crowded behind a police barricade on the dirt road leading to the tiny white clapboard church.
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March 20, 2009
BETSY BLAIR, 85 Actress nominated for Oscar in 'Marty' Betsy Blair, who played the shy teacher who meets Ernest Borgnine's lonely Bronx butcher at the Stardust Ballroom in the 1955 movie Marty, died March 13 of cancer at a London hospital. The red-haired actress, who was blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s while married to screen legend Gene Kelly and later was married to director Karel Reisz, earned an Academy Award nomination as best actress in a supporting role as Clara Snyder in Marty.
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By FROM SUN STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES | February 23, 2009
Richie's pregnant again Nicole Richie and Good Charlotte's Joel Madden are expecting their second child, Madden announced in a blog post over the weekend. The couple have a daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden, who was born in January 2008. Madden posted this announcement on the band's blog: "I am so happy to tell everyone that Harlow is going to be a big sister! God has truly blessed my family. Hope [you're] all feeling as good as I am right now." Richie, who is the daughter of singer Lionel Richie, found fame when she starred in the reality show The Simple Life with Paris Hilton.
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By From Sun news services | January 1, 2009
Woody Harrelson ties knot with longtime girlfriend Woody Harrelson and his longtime love have officially wed. A spokeswoman for Harrelson said the 47-year-old actor married his girlfriend of 20 years, Laura Louie, in Maui on Sunday. The couple have three daughters. The spokeswoman, Ina Treciokas, added that the ceremony was attended by family and friends. Leading the way Cloris Leachman, the 82-year-old Dancing With the Stars contestant, is the grand marshal of today's Rose Bowl parade - but, she says, don't look for her to be dancing in the streets of Pasadena, Calif.
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By From Sun news services | December 11, 2008
Raise your hand if you want this iconic piece of apparel Perhaps the most famous glove in the world - better-known, even, than the gloves that didn't fit in the O.J. Simpson trial - is going on the auction block. Yep, the glittery white glove Michael Jackson wore in his 1983 video for "Billie Jean" will be part of a five-day auction next year, Julien's Auctions announced yesterday in Los Angeles. Jackson is unloading more than 2,000 personal items in an auction that begins April 21. Bids will be accepted in person and online.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 9, 2008
Jennifer L. Johnson, an aspiring actress who had performed in college and community theatrical productions, died of a brain aneurysm Oct. 29 at University of Maryland Medical Center. The Hamilton resident was 27. Jennifer Lee Johnson was born in Elkins, W.Va., and raised in Cockeysville and Parkton. Ms. Johnson was a 1999 graduate of Hereford High School, where she was a volleyball player and actress. "Since she was 8 years old, she planned to be an actress," said her father, John J. Johnson of Parkton.