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Written By: Washington Post | × Photo of Doris Day on the set of her television program The Doris Day Show. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Doris Day, a singer and actress who personified wholesome American womanhood in the 1950s and 1960s - memorably as the chaste but chased after love interest in sex farces with Rock Hudson and Cary Grant, died May 13 at her home in Carmel Valley, Calif. She was 97. The Doris Day Animal Foundation announced her death, saying she had recently contracted pneumonia. Despite Day's perpetually sunny image, her life was marked by periods of physical, emotional...

Tele memories from her time in a popular Greenock band in the nineties. Drummer Lesley McLaren dug out her scrapbooks from her days in Elysian Fields, who played all over Inverclyde and gigged in Glasgow. Lesley, who drums in Clare Grogan's Altered Images and in Lola in Slacks, diligently documented every gig the band played between 1996 and 1998. She kept all of the gig guides that appeared in the Telegraph and cut out all of the stories and pics of the band featured in the paper. The drumming tutor unearthed her collection to help her friend, Largs writer and director Andy McGregor...

Dec. 23, 2020 3:20 pm ET Eugene Ashe’s “Sylvie’s Love,” streaming on Amazon, takes place in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and looks like one of those lush, deliciously glossy Technicolor romances that Ross Hunter might have produced and Douglas Sirk might have directed, except for one readjustment of the formula. Most of the people in it are Black. What’s startling about that is how unstartling it is until you stop to think about those old films and how narrow their spectrum was. The pleasure of this one, partly set in a jazz milieu, is its embrace of all th...

‘Sylvie’s Love’ Review: Tessa Thompson Pursues Love and Career in Swoon-Worthy Period Romance Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha’s chemistry is rivaled only by the mid-century fashion, hair, and cars on displayAlonso Duralde | December 22, 2020 @ 2:37 PM Last Updated: December 22, 2020 @ 4:14 PM Amazon Studios Whether or not it’s a result of the backlash against “La La Land” and its white-savior-of-jazz subplot, black filmmakers seem to be having a moment to reclaim jazz narratives for themselves, from Kemp Powers co-directing Pixar’s “Soul” to Eugene Ashe writing ...

Washington's foster children still spend more nights in hotels, despite investigation Washington state, again, is seeing an increase in the number of foster children who are spending more nights in hotel rooms over licensed homes. Author: Chris Ingalls Updated: 10:53 AM PST December 14, 2020 SEATTLE — A new report reveals Washington state’s foster children are spending more nights in hotel rooms instead of licensed care homes. The increase comes despite a KING 5 investigation in February in which the secretary of the Washington State Department of Children,...