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Blagojevich all shook up

...conferences, a visit to every TV set from the "Today" show to "The View." There were the comparisons of himself to Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Nelson Mandela, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. There was the impeachment, the trial...

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Before the wrecking ball

...residents have 13 screens to choose from, including Oscar favorite "American Beauty." And there are grainy memories of movie houses of the past when the awards were going to screen legends like Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and Vivien Leigh.

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Stanley Kramer, director-producer of 'message' movies, dies at 87

...performances were another Kramer trademark. "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "High Noon" won Best Actor Oscars for Jose Ferrer and Gary Cooper. Kramer went on to work with Vivien Leigh, Sidney Poitier, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Olivia de Havilland, Robert...

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He walked alone Producer Stanley Kramer believed movies should have messages

At the climax of the 1952 Western classic "High Noon," Marshal Wil Kane (played by Gary Cooper) takes a lonely walk down an empty main street to take on four gunslingers bent on killing him. He faced them alone because the...

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Actor Richard Harris dies

...his next two films in 1959, "Shake Hands With the Devil" with James Cagney and "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. His first starring role was in Lindsay Anderson's "The Sporting Life," in which he electrified...

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Modine plays another offbeat role in TV update of 'Charly'

...Robert Altman's ''Streamers,'' he was puzzled when the director called him ''Coop.'' ''You remind me of Gary Cooper,'' Altman explained. Modine, influenced by Adler, considered that an insult. Only later did he change his thinking...

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From dinner parties to TV extravaganza -- Oscar, how you've changed!

...Humphrey Bogart getting his due for ''The African Queen''... Jimmy Stewart sobbing as he paid tribute to the absent Gary Cooper; it was the first hint that Cooper was dying... Elizabeth Taylor, back from a near-death illness, winning for...

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Singer, actress Julie London dies at 74

...including "Jungle Woman" (1944), "The Red House" (1947) with Edward G. Robinson, "Task Force" (1949) with Gary Cooper, "The Fat Man" (1950) with Rock Hudson, and "A Question of Adultery" (1958). London was married to "Dragnet...

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Names and faces

...Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Sean Connery (tied for eighth place) and Gary Cooper. A readers' poll, conducted via the magazine's Web site, put Sir Sean Connery at the top of the list. Cindy Crawford...

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George W.'s summer vacation

...words than his predecessor, but at least you can always trust his words. In the White House iconography, Bush is Gary Cooper to Clinton's Elmer Gantry. Even Bush's more modest workday and regular midday diversions (such as his Oval Office...

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