Ginger Rogers

First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way

David Finkle | Posted 12.06.2011

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David Finkle

As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cabaret case.

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Happy 100th Birthday, Ginger Rogers!

Danny Miller | Posted 09.15.2011

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Danny Miller

How is it possible that today would have been the 100th birthday of eternally youthful Ginger Rogers? I met her only once in the flesh -- at a sc...

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40.5 Things to Do in L.A. Without Your Car

Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Sports Chalet, Penmar Golf Course, Karaoke, Ginger Rogers, The Aero Theater, Frozen Yogurt, Topanga State Park, Lapd, Parks and Recreation, Montana Street, Water-Balloon, West Los Angeles, Bikram Yoga, The Hub, Big Blue Bus, Boba Fett, Harry Potter, Lax, Will Rogers, Sushi, 405-Carmageddon, Westside, LA Restaurants, La Around Town, Best of La, Los Angeles News
Jennifer Ketcham

With the 405 shutting down, I find myself excited for my upcoming Westside staycation. City officials may encourage us to leave, but this list of the amazing things we can do locally illustrates just how great being a Westsider is.

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Fame and Death in April

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cesar Chávez, Einstein, Keynes, Picasso, Ford, Ginger Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hitler, Murrow, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Garbo, ?€œNew York Times? Obituary Page, Nixon, Fred Astaire, Stravinsky, Douglas MacArthur, Barnum, Healthy Living News
Norman MacAfee

If you go to The New York Times' obituary page, you will see the list of deaths of famous people who died in any given month and were written about in...

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Ginger Rogers, Competency, and Women

Birute Regine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Schemas, Unconscious Assumptions, Incompetency, Ginger Rogers, Business News
Birute Regine

The moral of the story? Don't marginalize a sister and don't let her marginalize you.

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The Drama of Hot Dogs

Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ginger Rogers, Frankfurters, Franklin Roosevelt, Hot Dogs, Richard Nixon, Humphrey Bogart, Food News
Matthew Jacob

In a country that cut its ties to the British monarchy 234 years ago, it's fitting that a food as unpretentious as the hot dog has inspired such drama and devotion. It's worth remembering some examples.

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PHOTOS: Original Ginger Rogers' Laurel Canyon Home On Market For $2.39 Million

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Via Westside Estate Agency: Ginger Rogers' custom-made home, built for her and husband Lew Ayres in 1927, is up for grabs. The home sits atop Laurel C...

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Kay Thompson: The Singer Has Ended But the Great Arrangements Linger On

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

Think Pink, the recordings of Kay Thompson, former head of MGM's vocal department, is a must-have for anyone interested in first-rate singing, songs and arrangements.

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Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano: Viewing "This Thing Called Love" From a Cabaret Stand-Point

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John DeVries, The Living Room on Second Avenue, Madison Square Garden, Stephen Sondheim, The Living Room on Stanton Street, Alfred Lunt, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Look at Me Now, Imelda Marcos, Lynn Fontanne, Milt Raskin, Barbara Fasano, Frank Sinatra, Richard Rodgers, Eric Comstock, Frank Loesser, Joe Bushkin, Noel Coward, Somewhere in the Night, Leonard Bernstein, Small World, Joey, In the Still of the Night, Tonight, I'll Be Easy to Find, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Billy May, Bart Howard, Brief Encounter, It Never Entered My Mind, The Great American Songbook, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Cole Porter, Cactus Tree, This Thing Called Love, Joni Mitchell, Oh, New York News
David Finkle

The husband-wife team of Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano are currently doing the living-room honors in Manhattan's Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel through the first week of March.

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Haiti and Cuba: Dodo Birds of a Feather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rudy Calzado, Forest Gump, Robert Pastor, Sergei Khrushchev, Ginger Rogers, Paul Lafargue, Aral Sea, Triangular Trade, Santiago De Cuba, Meyer Lansky, Utopian Socialism, Bill Gates, George Jetson, Hotel Riviera, Climate Change, No-Fly List, Haiti Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, Karl Marx, Hillary Clinton, Fidel Castro, Daniel De Leon, World News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Why is it so important to the great leaders of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions that Obama's campaign message of joyous reconciliation be converted to an elegy of disillusionment?

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Summer Reading on a Sunny (Doris) Day: David Kaufman's The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door Part I

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Garner, Louis Jordan, James Cagney, Terry Melcher, Clark Gable, Norman Jewison, Love Me or Leave Me, David Kaufman, Rock Hudson, Hollywood, Martin Melcher, Pillow Talk, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Hitchcock, David Niven, Doris Day, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jack Lemmon, Films, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Biographies, Michael Curtiz Ethel Barrymore, Thelma Ritter, Charles Ludlam, Storm Warning, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Spring Byington, Calamity Jance, Animal Rights, Kitty Foyle, Paul McCartney, Helen Forrest, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, Peggy Lee, The Great American Songbook, Oprah Winfrey, A Streetcar Named Desire, Linda Eastman McCartney, Table, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.

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Backwards, in High Heels

Susan Brison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, Women's Rights, Katharine Hepburn, Class Sex, Susan Brison, Sex Appeal, Sarah Palin, Working Women, Fred Astaire, Election 2008, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, Ginger Rogers, John McCain, Palin Candidate, Politics News
Susan Brison

Don't be fooled: we've seen before that the first women to be let into bastions of male power can serve to reinforce existing gender norms and make things even harder for those who'd follow.

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