Lee, Peggy (1920—)
The adage that "less is more" sums up Peggy Lee's style as a singer and performer of the American popular song. With her assured stage presence and vocal...
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Wallace Seawell, a photographer who snapped portraits of such Hollywood stars as Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and George Burns during a career spanning more than 60 years, has died. He was 90.Seawel...
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A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.
The show was cut short and...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She crossed the Atlantic to
hit the big time in fashion, but Tuesday British Spice Girl
Victoria "Posh" Beckham suffered her first Hollywood flop when
style maven Mr. Black...
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2007. There are 344 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treaso...
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On the music scene, the warm humor and exquisite vocal flourishes of the eclectic, electrifying Barbara Brussell are causing a power outage down at the Metropolitan Room in Chelsea. For the next fo...
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James DeakinBARRINGTON, R.I. (AP) _ James Deakin, a longtime White House correspondent whose critical reporting put him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list" and earned angry rebukes from Lyndon Johnso...
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Two days before Christmas 1955, Otis Blackwell wrote seven songs and sold them to a music broker for an advance fee of $25 each.He needed the money for presents. That grew to a much bigger gift thr...
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Musical question: Where are the next torchbearers for jazz, cabaret and theater classics from the Great American Songbook coming from? Easy to ask, difficult to answer. I look around and wince when...
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In a musical world of declining values, where even jazz and cabaret singers are disposable, songs are contrived and so-called “stylists” grow more dispensable every day, I’m glad ...
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