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Obituary: Milton Berle
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"MR TELEVISION", "Mr Tuesday Night", "Uncle Miltie", "The Thief of
Bad Gags" - Milton Berle was called all of these, and many less
printable things by rival comedians from whom he appropriated
material. After learning his trade in vaudeville, musical comedy,
revue, night-clubs and films, the brash funny man became, in the late
Forties and early Fifties, American television's first comedy
superstar.
As a child, Milton Berlinger, encouraged by his relentless mother
("Mom made Gypsy Rose Lee's mother look like Mother Teresa"),
performed in vaudeville and acted in many silent films. In a 1920 ...
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Concocting La Dame aux camelias: blood, tears, and other fluids.(Alexandre Dumas fils)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; In June 1847, the 23-year old Dumas fils set out to write a novel loosely based...The textual strategy employed by Dumas ills to craft the story of this doomed...social, moral, and literary goals of Dumas fils' project. (2) In the first part...
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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camlias
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...the "Lady with the Camellias'' in Dumas's six-hankie novel of 1848 - the...courtesan Marie Duplessis, who became Dumas's lover for a short time between 1844...Camllia'', giving it one "l''. Dumas followed suit, admitting it was through...
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Dumas, the prodigious: a profile of Alexandre Dumas.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...Daunted but not the least discouraged, Dumas undertook this ambitious reading...blue-eyed, and well built, Dumas had an exuberant charm and verve...settled in. Some nine months later, Alexandre Dumas fils came into the world. About this...
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Ashes of famed novelist Dumas to be moved, against his wishes
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...early 1850s. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas nevertheless excelled in French high society and...the Normandy region. But true to his dying wish, Dumas' son, named Alexandre Dumas fils, transported his father's remains back to Villers...
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Les Trois Dumas. (Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indiana) (theater reviews)
Magazine article from: American Theatre
; ...upbringing by a mother left destitute when the elder Dumas was cheated out of his military pension; fortunes...stormy but affectionate relationship between Dumas and his illegitimate son, Alexandre Dumas fils, who won his own spot in the romantic parthenon...
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Dumas' swashbuckling tales fall off reading lists but remain a filmmakers favorite
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...but found more inspiration from Dumas' actual life story. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas was born in 1802 to a mother who...wedlock, including Camille novelist Alexandre Dumas fils. Despite his heritage, Dumas excelled...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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DUMAS' TALES FLOURISH AS FILMS BUT BOOKS STAY SHELVED.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...but found more inspiration from Dumas' actual life story. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas was born in 1802 to a mother who...including ``Camille'' novelist Alexandre Dumas fils. Despite his heritage, Dumas excelled...
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Dumas' odd California travelogue; 'A Gil Blas' winds down road to riches.(DAILY DATEBOOK)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; ...for want of energy. The life of Dumas can be exhausting just to read about...journalism and frankly atrocious poetry. Dumas would work on several projects simultaneously...bastard son, "Camille" playwright Alexandre Dumas fils. "I need several mistresses. If...
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INTRODUCING HIS EMOTIONAL `LADY' TO BOSTON CHOREOGRAPHER'S STORY BALLET BASED ON DUMAS NOVEL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...and finally gives up life itself, dying alone. The high drama of "La Dame aux Camellias," the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, has proven irresistible to composers, choreographers, playwrights, and filmmakers, sometimes with results...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Dumas Fever.(Media&Society)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...greatest of storytelling geniuses: Dumas, Alexandre, pere not fils. Not bad! I count, let's see...horreur!--I spy that godawful Dumas product known as The Man in the...melancholic third installment of Dumas' grand Musketeers saga? (Good...
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