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March 15, 2010
The Early Show Bobby Flay. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Michael Lewis; Todd Bridges; Jason Priestley; Bethenny Frankel; Jeff Daniels. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Live With Regis and Kelly Jennifer Aniston; The Script performs. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Jessica Simpson. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Doctors Liz Vaccariello, editor in chief of Prevention magazine, joins the doctors to discuss home remedies for common ailments; secrets for youthful skin; curing sore muscles.
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March 15, 2010
SERIES Top Gear: In the season premiere, the guys drive through Romania in search of the greatest road in the world. With Eric Bana (5 and 8 p.m. BBC America). 20/20: This program, from ABC News, takes behind-the-scenes look at ABC's series "The Bachelor" (8 p.m. ABC). Home Rules: Former WNBA player Fran Harris steps in to help frazzled families improve their relationships while an interior designer enhances their living spaces, in this new weekly series.
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March 15, 2010
Culina at Four Seasons Beverly Hills Where: 300 S. Doheny Drive, Los Angeles. When: Open from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays- Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sundays Price: Dinner small plates, any three for $12; crudo, $9 to $30; antipasti and salads, $9 to $14; pizza, $13 to $17; pasta, $14 to $24; main courses, $18 to $42; sides, $6. Contact: ...
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March 15, 2010 | By Pete Metzger
When a game is hailed as "the most anticipated title of the year" and is the third installment in a franchise that blew away nearly all the competition from the last generation of console gaming, expectations are high, and there is almost certain to be a letdown. While God of War 3, which hits store shelves Tuesday, is excellent gaming, it fails to live up to the hype. Kratos -- the buffed, bald, red-and-white-painted hero -- is on a mission of revenge against Zeus and the other gods of Olympus.
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March 15, 2010
Dear Amy: A 16-month-old toddler relative has screaming tantrums when she cannot get her way. When this happens at home, the girl's parents call a "timeout." Being in a public place poses more challenges. Someone suggested that the person who was with the toddler should strap her into her car seat and wait outside in the car until she was done screaming. However, this little girl is strong and stiffened her body to avoid sitting in the seat. Any ideas? Wondering Dear Wondering: As much as I dislike the idea of one person physically controlling another, there are times when adults do need to restrain or simply force a young child to yield -- when their basic safety or well being is at stake.
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March 15, 2010 | By Josh Getlin reporting from new york >>>
The lights of Manhattan glittered in the background, as jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater set her sights on bass player Christian McBride. Cooing, crooning and creeping toward him on the stage, she sang an up-tempo, sexually suggestive blues, moaning "Oooh" and "Aaah" as an erotic tension built, stopping just short of physical contact. It was a trademark moment for one of the jazz world's most celebrated divas, but it was also incongruous: Bridgewater had just sung "Mother's Son in Law," a tune made famous by Billie Holiday, and the rest of her songs -- including "Good Morning Heartache," "All of Me" and "God Bless the Child" -- were also immortalized by the iconic singer.
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March 15, 2010 | By Ben Fritz
Give Bullock and Bridges some credit. The key to a box-office boost from the Oscars this year, it seems, was winning a lead acting trophy. Lead actress Sandra Bullock's "The Blind Side" and lead actor Jeff Bridges' "Crazy Heart" both posted very strong performances this weekend after the stars won Academy Awards the previous Sunday. Ticket sales for "The Blind Side" grew by 24%, despite a small drop in the number of theaters where it played, bringing total receipts to $252.
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March 15, 2010 | By Greg Braxton
KCAL news anchor Pat Harvey can still recall her edgy excitement generated decades ago by not only the imminent launch of an ambitious and historic broadcast but also by widespread predictions of failure. It was March 5, 1990, as the now veteran broadcaster positioned herself behind the anchor desk, the focus of a sparkling new set on a Paramount Studios sound stage. After months of planning, a rash of hirings and upgrades that cost more than $30 million, she was on the front lines of an unprecedented experiment -- a nightly three-hour newscast.
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March 15, 2010 | By Jonah Raskin
James McGrath Morris sees parallels between Gilded Age media baron Joseph Pulitzer's time and ours, pointing out that when Pulitzer (1847-1911) began to shape "yellow journalism," newspapers were going out of business and readers were bemoaning the end of journalism as they knew it. Pulitzer charged ahead, boasting that the color pages of the New York World emerged from the state-of-the-art printing presses "like rainbow tints in the spray." Indeed, the World seemed like something entirely new in the staid universe of American newspapers, perhaps as revolutionary then as the Internet today and as provocative as the practitioners of advocacy journalism on Fox. Morris' magisterial new biography, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power" (Harper: 560 pp., $29.99)
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March 15, 2010
BOOKS Dennis Cooper The artist and literary provocateur leads this West Coast Tour of the Little House on the Bowery, his series of innovative fiction published by New York's Akashic Books. Cooper, Mark Gluth and James Greer will read on the stop. Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. 7 p.m. (310) 659-3110. Tim Johnston This reading and book signing is something of a homecoming for the author, who for years worked as a carpenter in L.A. while writing his stories.