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Ian Fraser dies; Emmy-winning conductor, arranger and composer
Emmy-winning music conductor, arranger and composer Ian Fraser, who worked extensively with Julie Andrews and oversaw a famed Bing Crosby/David Bowie holiday duet, died at home in Los Angeles on Friday. He was 81. The cause was cancer, said his daughter, Tiffany Fraser. Ian Fraser was the arranger and conductor on numerous television shows during the golden age of musical specials in the 1960s and '70s, winning the first of his 11 Emmys for the 1976 "America Salutes Richard Rodgers" show that aired on CBS. The unlikely Crosby/Bowie duet was performed on the 1977 "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas" program, also on CBS, on which Fraser was the music...
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Ian Fraser dies; Emmy-winning conductor, arranger and composer
Emmy-winning music conductor, arranger and composer Ian Fraser, who worked extensively with Julie Andrews and oversaw a famed Bing Crosby/David Bowie holiday duet, died at home in Los Angeles on Friday. He was 81. The cause was cancer, said his...
Actors ready for close-ups in 'Styling the Stars'
A dashing and debonair Cary Grant posing in his swim trunks for a photographer on the set of his 1957 tear-jerking romantic drama "An Affair to Remember." Doris Day, dressed in pajamas and fuzzy bedroom slippers, mugging for the camera on the...
Elvis Presley: 5 films to watch on the 37th anniversary of his death
Elvis Presley, who died on this date in 1977 at age 42, starred in 31 scripted motion pictures beginning with 1956's "Love Me Tender" and ending with a thud with 1969's "Change of Habit." Because so many of his later films were so bad,...
TV Picks: 'Breaking Bad' marathon, TCM musicals, Hulu comedies
"Breaking Bad" marathon (AMC, Friday through Monday). For those whose year has been marred by not being able to discuss "Breaking Bad" at cocktail parties, AMC brings you the parting gift of a series marathon, airing from noon each...
Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Awkward' on MTV
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Sin City celebrates 50th anniversary of 'Viva Las Vegas'
?Viva Las Vegas? is turning 50, and in typical Vegas fashion, the flashy, if formulaic movie that turned the spotlight on then-sleepy Sin City will be celebrated. Even five decades later, most everyone knows at least some of the...
Review: The weird and wonderful Lee Hazlewood
What to do with Lee Hazlewood? Too obscure for the Rolling Stone/Grammy canon, too cheesy for most hipsters, too square for hip-hop producers to sample and just freaky enough to startle the conformists, the late singer, producer and label head only dented...
First look at LITA's new Lee Hazlewood Industries box set
The late Lee Hazlewood?s sound might be best known for ?These Boots Are Made For Walkin',? Nancy Sinatra?s 1966 go-go dancing hit, but in the shadow of that quirky, spectacularly produced classic lies a whole world of musical...
Las Vegas: At 94, pianist still tickles the ivories -- and the audience
Like most lounge musicians, Joe Vento plays requests. It?s rare that a guest stumps him. In fact, he claims to have 22,000 songs committed to memory.
Hal Needham dies at 82; legendary Hollywood stuntman turned director
Stuntman and director Hal Needham spoke with a down-home twang but was as Hollywood as air kisses and car chases ? and had the scars to prove it. In a career that spanned hundreds of TV episodes and feature films, he tumbled down...
2011 Summer movies list
May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle...
'Law & Order: SVU's' guest actresses get Emmy's attention
"We were writing a story for Chris Meloni's character's mother, and she was going to be bipolar. Immediately we thought Ellen Burstyn." So began Neal Baer's wooing of the Oscar-winning Burstyn to the set of "Law & Order: Special Victims...
Chad Everett dies at 75; TV and movie actor
Chad Everett, a ruggedly handsome actor who played young Dr. Joe Gannon on the TV drama "Medical Center," has died. He was 75. Everett died Tuesday at his home in the Los Angeles area after battling lung cancer, his daughter Katherine Thorp...
Hats are back on top
Hats may once have seemed like a wardrobe staple of the past ? an accessory reserved for the ladies of an era when no one left home without a proper head covering. But modern millinery seems to have a definite place in L.A.'s urban jungle...
Nolan Miller dies at 79; 'Dynasty' costume designer
Fashion designer Nolan Miller put a bra-less Farrah Fawcett in a see-through blouse for "Charlie's Angels," Tina Louise in a slinky nude-beige evening dress for "Gilligan's Island" and Elizabeth Taylor in violet gowns for her "Passion" perfume...
"Newsies," which opened on Broadway Thursday, seems too sugary for critics' tastes.
Betty White has big night with Emmy win for 'SNL'
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Harry Shearer had to wait for 17 years after his cast mates from "The Simpsons" won the first Emmys awarded for voice-over performances before he finally earned a nomination last year. While Shearer has voiced dozens of characters � including many of the mos
Jon Hamm -- who picked up his third consecutive lead actor nomination for "Mad Men" -- also earned his second-in-a-row guest actor bid for "30 Rock." However, as this appearance clocks in at just 136 seconds (2:16), many of our forum posters think a nod for hi
Ted Danson earned his 15th Emmy nod for "Damages." He also contended in this category last year while he was a supporting actor nominee for his first season on this crime drama. He won two (1990, 1993) of his 11 consecutive lead actor bids for "Cheers" and was
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