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Richard Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)

NEW YORK – If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bacall’s legend more than just acting and Bogart

NEW YORK – Lauren Bacall had one of those incredible lives. The wife and co-star of Humphrey Bogart. A Tony Award-winning actress. A National Book Award-winning author. A giant of...

DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Bacall’s legend more than just acting and Bogart

NEW YORK – Lauren Bacall had one of those incredible lives. The wife and co-star of Humphrey Bogart. A Tony Award-winning actress. A National Book Award-winning author. A giant of...

DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Haruki Murakami’s new novel journeys to the past

NEW YORK – Haruki Murakami’s new novel is yet another risky reunion with the past. “The past is my treasure chest, and once I open it, I have so many materials in there,” says the...

DATE: Aug 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Prize-winning poet still at work at age 86

NEW YORK – He is 86 years old, his eyesight is failing and much of his recent work reads like a man saying goodbye. But W.S. Merwin continues to write poems; he cannot help himsel...

DATE: Aug 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Cinema verite documentarian Robert Drew dies at 90

Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in “Primary” and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of infl...

DATE: Jul 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ author, dead at 89

NEW YORK – Thomas Berger, the witty and eclectic novelist who reimagined the American West in the historical yarn Little Big Man and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domesti...

DATE: Jul 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86

NEW YORK – Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. “I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a le...

DATE: May 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Rush Limbaugh wins children’s book award

NEW YORK – Rush Limbaugh has won a children’s book prize designed to be chosen by kids themselves. But that doesn’t mean all of his voters were young people. On Wednesd...

DATE: May 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Book twists some knickers

‘Captain Underpants’ on ‘challenged books’ list

DATE: Apr 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Lawsuits, mergers, and, yes, books, in 2013

NEW YORK – In 2013, everything and nothing happened in the publishing industry. It was a blockbuster year for the legal profession. A federal judge ruled that Apple had conspired ...

DATE: Dec 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Mandela was inspiration for music, movies, poems

NEW YORK – Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, whe...

DATE: Dec 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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