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The Leader's Guide For Seasons Of Caring For Alzheimer's Caregivers

Edit Huffington Post 01 Apr 2016
In 1986, when my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I had no idea what is was -- except that it was a disease and it was fatal. I knew no one who had it or, at the very least, talked about it. So I entered into the enigmatic maze of Alzheimer's without a clue about how to navigate or what to expect was to come ... And painting -- Arlene Francis, a well-known celebrity in the 1960s and 1970s was riddled with Alzheimer's by the 1990s ... Mr ... ....

How Gentrification Is Forcing Californians Out Of Their Communities

Edit Huffington Post 24 Feb 2016
This story originally appeared in Capital & Main. Sign up for email alerts from Capital & Main. Grade-school art teacher Melissa Jones is attending the opening of an exhibit called Roofless. Art Against Displacement at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa. It is a cold, rainy night in early January ... She is desperate to move into a bigger place, but for many the rents in Sonoma County have become unaffordable ... Berkeley authors noted ... ....

The cosmic space odyssey of Charles and Ray Eames

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2015
In 1956, the designers Charles and Ray Eames appeared briefly on the NBC television show Home – presented by the actor Arlene Francis – and introduced their new lounge chair and ottoman. probably their best known work. Charles, with his crew cut and bow tie, submits to Francis’s cooing description of his talents, but subtly reminds her that his wife and creative partner is waiting in the wings ... Related ... Twitter ... As Charles put it ... Twitter....

Morbid Curisoity: Remembering Arlene Francis; who gave the word "dumbell"

Edit The Examiner 17 May 2015
No one could accuse of game show icon Arlene Francis of being a dumb bell, except maybe Alvin Rodecker (1900-1960), the man she managed to kill with one ... They had just dropped a wad of money on a fancy French dinner and were at the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue, underneath the windows of the Ritz Tower, where Francis lived in an eighth-floor apartment ... Francis was not charged with a crime, but paid the widow Rodecker $175,000....

Famous Last Words and Tear Out The Heart are the 2015 Touring Dead

Edit The Examiner 05 Mar 2015
Billboard charting hardcore band Famous Last Words, Victory Records' Tear Out the Heart, and supporting band For All I Am (InVogue Records) make up the 2015 Touring Dead. They will tour for three weeks starting on March 13 in Bloomington, IN ... Full tour dates can be found below.. FULL DATES.. 3/13 Bloomington, IN @ Rhino's. 3/14 Covington, KY @ The Loft. 3/15 Atlanta, GA @ Under The Couch ... 3/27 Santa Rosa, CA @ The Arlene Francis Center ... ....

A Long Life in the Cherry Lane Theatre

Edit Huffington Post 16 Oct 2014
In 1962, when Estelle Parsons made her Cherry Lane Theatre debut in Mrs. Dally Has a Lover, a strip club was in business next door, and the thump-thump-thumping of music could be heard through the thin, shared wall during performances ... ... F ... Before Parsons and the actor David McElwee began the last performance of the night, she told the story of Arlene Francis, who took Mrs ... Francis' Great White Way production, however, was a flop....

You Can Now Download Orson Welles’ Long-Lost First Film 'Too Much Johnson' For Free

Edit Indiewire 21 Aug 2014
. ... But now, you can download it right to your desktop, legally. But first, a bit of backstory... However, there are a few things to note about this silent movie before you fire it up ... But hey, you still get to see the Mercury Theatre players — Welles, Joseph Cotten, Mary Wickes, Arlene Francis, Virginia Nicholson (Welles' wife at the time), and an uncredited Judy Holliday — doing their thing ... .. More ... ....

TCM honors James Garner with day-long marathon Monday, July 28

Edit The Examiner 28 Jul 2014
Just nine day after James Garner passed away at the age of 86, TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is saluting the late TV and film star with a 12-film marathon taking over their schedule on Monday, July 28. Throughout the day-long marathon, TCM will offer films representing the great range of a career that spanned more than five decades ... 5 a.m ... 7 a.m ... 8.30 a.m ... - The Thrill of It All (1963) - starring Doris Day, James Garner and Arlene Francis....

Deadly danger on the stroll

Edit Canada Dot Com 13 May 2014
Sharon Anne Dietrich, Michelle Caroline Choiniere and Lisa >Arlene Francis. They were sex trade workers murdered, then dumped under bridges or into the brush beside quiet logging roads - dark and desolate places similar to the areas they worked ... 16, 2004, and is one Investigation Team's oldest open files ... A month later, the VPD received an anonymous letter from her killer ... Lisa Arlene Francis, also known as Lisa Arlene Kireche ... FRIDAY ... URL....

Orson Welles's Too Much Johnson: the moment he fell in love with cinema

Edit The Guardian 05 May 2014
The rediscovered 1938 film, which has launched the Academy's Essential Orson Welles series, anticipates his later DIY spirit. Mercurial genius … Orson Welles directing Too Much Johnson on location in 1938. Photograph. AP/AMPAS ... "It's not much of a stretch to think that he clearly fell in love with something about film-making." ... Photograph. AP. Joseph Cotten plays a philandering lawyer first seen making love to Arlene Francis ... ....

Old-time radio, 14 April: Up and down with "The Aldrich Family"

Edit The Examiner 15 Apr 2014
... Lowell Thomas’s news and commentaries (14.5), the Russ Morgan orchestra (12.6), Grand Central Station (11.9), Professor Quiz (11.8), Amos 'n' Andy (10.8), What’s My Name (also a 10.8 for the lighthearted, celebrity-oriented quiz show that helped make a broadcasting fixture out of Arlene Francis), I Love a Mystery (10.6), and Lum & Abner (10.4)....

TCM Celebrates Doris Day's 90th Birthday with 24-Hour Marathon Thursday, April 3 - 03 April 2014 (TCM - Turner Classic Movies)

Edit noodls 03 Apr 2014
(Source. TCM - Turner Classic Movies) Celebration Also Includes Fundraiser for the Doris Day Animal Foundation and Rare Interview Conducted by TCM's Robert Osborne. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is paying tribute to one of the most beloved stars of all time as Doris Day marks her 90th birthday ... TCM Celebrates Doris Day's 90th Birthday on Thursday, April 3 ... Thursday, April 3. 6 a.m ... Starring Doris Day, James Garner and Arlene Francis....

Pop culture Q&A;: 'Castle' actress Molly Quinn a veteran at 20

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 11 Mar 2014
Q. I really enjoy ABC's "Castle" and wonder if you could provide more information about the young lady that plays Rick Castle's daughter, Alexis. I think she's a very good actress and wonder why I haven't seen her before. A ... In addition, says her bio ... Q ... A ... I think you remember him as the original host of "By Popular Demand," a summer series on CBS in 1950; the series had entertainment acts competing, and was later hosted by Arlene Francis....
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