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Linda Evans—A Real Life Krystle Carrington

Thursday, October 6th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

Linda Evans was the original “Good Wife.” As Dynasty‘s Krystle Carrington, the blond, angelic second wife of tycoon Blake Carrington, played by the debonair John Forsythe,

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Lucille Ball—Queen of Comedy

Sunday, August 7th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Jamestown, New York on August 6, celebrated the 100th birthday of its most famous daughter, Lucille Ball, who died in 1989 at the age of

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Do We Have to Love Stars to Love Their Movies?

Monday, June 28th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

A long time ago, in a Hollywood far, far away, moviegoers knew very little about the personal lives of the stars they idolized. In the

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New York Childhood in the Olden Days: Nostalgic Look Back

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
by Aimee Garn on Living Around

“The Olden Days,” a phrase that my daughters used when they were young, amalgamates wildly different times in the past. In New York City’s Olden

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Bringing a Musical Touch to a Romantic Novel

Sunday, September 20th, 2009
by Woman Around Town on Reading Around

Music is filled with drama. Operas overflow with emotion; love songs can bring us to tears. So it seemed inevitable that Christina Britton Conroy would

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