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Halls of power(ball): New House members pick their offices via lottery

WASHINGTON — As an aide for Rep.-elect Nick LaLota approached the box that held numbered buttons and her office fate in its wooden confines, she pulled out her phone to play Frank Sinatra’s “Luck Be a Lady.”

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Guys & Dolls: casting has been announced for Nicholas Hytner’s new production at the Bridge Theatre

From an award-winning team and with a star-studded cast, Guys & Dolls is set up for success

Evening Standard

Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died

The Independent UK

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Henry Silva obituary

American stage and screen actor who oozed menace in his many roles as the bad guy, heavy or villain

The Guardian - UK

Strictly Come Dancing's Jowita Przystal speaks of 'sacrifices' ahead of huge change

The dance pair were training for this week's routine

Nottingham Post

BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Hamza Yassin calls 'time out' as he's forced to defend himself over Jowita Przystal injury

The dancing couple shared a video from the training room

Manchester Evening News

Wales vs Iran: The story of only previous meeting of World Cup opponents

The game was arranged as the Shah of Iran’s son had wanted to watch a British team play in Tehran

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Academic, 76, jailed over feud with neighbour accused of 'playing Frank Sinatra songs too loudly'

Dr Elizabeth Hall made neighbour's life a 'misery' — and told a judge she would come to court when she felt like it

Wales Online

Beyoncé ties with Jay-Z as the most nominated artist in Grammy history

Queen Bey made history as the first woman of colour to earn four album nods as a lead artist, and she has now surpassed Frank Sinatra with the most Record of the Year nominations

The Independent UK

Ronnie Kray met Mafia boss who fed victims to pet tigers on US trip to join forces

Kray twin Ronnie went to Las Vegas in the late 1960s to join forces with the Mafia and was shown a basement where there was a huge metal cage with tigers in it - and blood on the floor...

Daily Mirror

San Diego sax great Anthony Ortega, dead at 94, played with them all, from Julie Andrews to Frank Zappa

SAN DIEGO — Anthony Ortega did almost everything imaginable in a music career that stretched over 70 years that included leading a weekly Sunday jam session — into his mid-90s — until his health began to fail in August.

Tribune News Service

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along

Dylan meditates on 66 songs he holds dear in an eclectic collection of essays that breathes new life into groundbreaking hits while relishing obscurities and oddities

The Guardian - UK

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on fame, Frank Sinatra and the elusive search for the 'mega-riff'

LOS ANGELES — Arctic Monkeys blasted out of the U.K. in 2006 with "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," a scrappy modern-classic debut that framed the young quartet as a kind of transatlantic counterpart to the new wave of American garage-revival acts.

Los Angeles Times

Bob Dylan review – troubadour turns piano man for a sublime bluesy night

The octogenarian’s keyboard skills were to the fore as he and a superb band showcased his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways

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Baseball quiz: My kind of season (postseason is)

I should start by apologizing to Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen for messing with the great song they wrote, “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is),” but I bet Frank Sinatra would have sung my version for the quizmaster.

Los Angeles Times

9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them

You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

The Guardian - UK

Nothing compares: how Sinéad O’Connor’s fearless activism helped change the world

When the singer ripped up a picture of the pope on US TV, it capsized her career. Thirty years on, a new documentary showcases her brave defiance

Daily Mirror

Hollywood princess Grace Kelly dreamed of being invisible and living in Ireland

On 40th anniversary of Princess Grace of Monaco's death in a crash aged 52, director Rovert Dornhelm shares how the film star, who owned a cottage near Cork and had Irish roots, longed to be ordinary

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The Independent UK

Henry Silva, known for many tough-guy roles, dies at 95

Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died

Chicago Sun-Times

Henry Silva, starred in ‘Ocean’s 11,’ ‘Manchurian Candidate’ dies at 95

Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.” and in such film as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.”

Tribune News Service

Get a taste of bourbon country, in Kentucky and beyond

J.R. Ewing, the scoundrel oil baron of the prime time melodrama “Dallas,” was known to often enjoy a neat order of bourbon and branch as his tipple of choice. John Wayne fancied Wild Turkey, another bourbon whiskey. For Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, it was Jack Daniels. Mila Kunis likes…

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Newsom skipped meeting with UFW leaders. Now he should sign California's farmworker union bill

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1966, Gov. Pat Brown made a politically tone-deaf mistake with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers union. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom repeated the goof. Brown redeemed himself. Newsom probably won't.

The Guardian - UK

‘Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath blew my mind’: Robert Patrick’s honest playlist

The Terminator 2 actor is a friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a big fan of Frank Sinatra – but which band did his rock-star brother play with?

Wales Online

Nigel Owens sings Frank Sinatra classic in final goodbye to BBC radio stars Scott Mills and Chris Stark

Scott and Chris completed their last ever Radio 5 Live show on Saturday morning

Los Angeles Times

Jean Smart is holding on to optimism ... crying to Whitney Houston helps

LOS ANGELES — Jean Smart just pulled her car over to the side of the road. She needed a moment. Whitney Houston's soaring power ballad "I Have Nothing" is playing on KOST-FM ("love songs on the Cooooast "), a song that ranks as Smart's "all-time singalong if you want to…

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