Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, Sonny Bono (1935-1998) made a career out of reinventing himself. He played the straight man to his then-wife Cher on the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hou...
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Palm Springs (dpa) - Palm Springs is a rather glitzy city, in
small part due to its proximity to the Santa Rosa Mountains that
reflect a gold and ochre light in the evening ...
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Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows, has died after a long illness.The...
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Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows, has died after a long illness. Th...
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Betty Hutton, the brassy blonde star of "Annie Get Your Gun," was buried Tuesday with a handful of mourners in attendance. She was laid to rest in a gray-and-pink metal casket at Forest Lawn Cathed...
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For rock'n'roll fans who like to travel, there's a new guide from Santa Monica Press: "Led Zeppelin Crashed Here," by Chris Epting ($16.95).In fact, the book is fun to leaf through even if you don'...
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The Salton Sea is an incongruous sight: a huge body of water in the middle of a desert.And with good reason. California's largest lake was created purely by accident in 1905 when floodwaters from t...
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Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported the discovery by German physicist ...
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