Category Archives: School

NBC announces musical theater program for schools

By doris | Published: January 8, 2012

Full Story at NBC.Yahoo.com PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NBC is funding an initiative to create musical theater programs in U.S. schools in need of arts education. The network said Friday the effort to launch stand-alone musical theater programs will begin this month with a pilot group of 20 schools nationwide. NBC is joined on the [...]

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Henry Winkler officially Most Excellent, receives honorary OBE

By doris | Published: September 17, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (EW.com) — Henry Winkler is often called the Nicest Man in Hollywood, but now he’s also known as an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). He was awarded the honor from the Queen this week in recognition of his services to children with dyslexia and [...]

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Ronstadt donates collection to Univ. of Arizona

By doris | Published: April 19, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com The singer’s collection also includes manuscripts from Nelson Riddle, with whom Ronstadt had a longtime artistic relationship. The Arizona Daily Star says the Ronstadt collection joins that of other music greats housed at the Tucson school including Riddle, Artie Shaw, Jo Stafford and Les Baxter.

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Dead baby found in bag of student from Oprah’s school

By doris | Published: February 19, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com The real drama in Oprah Winfrey’s life is taking place far away from her new cable network. The body of a newborn baby was discovered in a bag belonging to a student at the already scandal-plagued Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, according to South African authorities. MORE: Oprah [...]

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Oprah Winfrey says she’s disappointed by school abuse case verdict

By doris | Published: October 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Monday said she was not satisfied with the acquittal of a woman accused of abusing students at the her South African girls school. Tiny Virginia Makopo, 30, was found not guilty of allegations that she improperly touched several teenage girls when she was [...]

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Rock band inspiration Leonard Skinner dies

By doris | Published: September 21, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Leonard Skinner, the basketball coach and gym teacher who inspired the name of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Monday in Florida, his daughter said. He was 77. Skinner died in his sleep at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville, where he had been living for [...]

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‘Wonder Years’ star insists smart is sexy

By doris | Published: August 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Danica McKellar is most famous for portraying Winnie Cooper, the childhood sweetheart of series protagonist Kevin Arnold on “The Wonder Years.” Fame came to the actress rather early, but rather than succumb to the negative pitfalls to which many child actors fall prey, McKellar found her saving grace in [...]

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Adam Lambert: The kids understand

By doris | Published: March 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — At any given time, it’s hard to hide a 6-foot-1-inch man wearing eyeliner. It’s even more difficult when that man is Adam Lambert and you’re trying to prevent 2,400 middle school students from discovering that he’s set foot on their campus. And so, the 2009 “American [...]

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