Meijer Gardens prepares for butterfly exhibit
Updated: Monday, February 18 2013, 09:41 AM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids is getting ready to open its 18th annual "Butterflies Are Blooming" exhibit.
The event at the West Michigan attraction opens to the public March 1 and media recently got a sneak peak at butterflies in their chrysalis form.
Meijer Gardens is getting deliveries of hundreds of chrysalides a week. They first will be placed in the Butterfly Bungalow. After emerging as butterflies they're released into the five-story Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory to fly for the popular display.
"Butterflies Are Blooming" typically draws nearly 150,000 visitors. The exhibit runs through April 30.
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JAMES GANDOLFINI DEAD AT 51
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Gandolfini "was a genius." That's what "Sopranos" creator David Chase says. Gandolfini died yesterday while in Rome on vacation. He was 51. No cause of death was given by HBO or Gandolfini's managers. Gandolfini won three Emmys for his role as Tony Soprano on the ground-breaking HBO series. Sopranos co-star Lorraine Bracco says she's "utterly heartbroken." Another Sopranos co-star, musician Steven Van, says the "world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time."
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Actor James Gandolfini has died. The AP's Jamie Friar reports on the man who created one of TV's iconic characters, Tony Soprano. ((opens with sound))
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Actor James Gandolfini is dead at age 51. The AP's Jamie Friar reports his breakout role was Tony Sporano on the HBO series "The Sopranos."
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Excerpt of the theme to the show "The Sopranos."
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Robert Iler as A.J. and James Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano from `The Sopranos'
A.J. reminds his dad about some fatherly advice he'd once given him, in this scene from the finale of `The Sopranos.' COURTESY: HBO ((mandatory on-air credit))
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James Gandolfini said in June of 2007 that the only thing on his mind as he walked away from the set on the final day of shooting 'The Sopranos' was where to go eat.
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James Gandolfini said in June 2007 he was not sorry to see Tony Soprano go.
JAMES GANDOLFINI-CAREER
UNDATED (AP) -- We all know James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos," where he played a mobster with issues. But he had a long and varied career including film and Broadway. After earning a degree in communications from Rutgers University in New Jersey, Gandolfini moved to New York. He worked as a bartender, bouncer and nightclub manager. When he was 25, he joined a friend of a friend in an acting class. Gandolfini's first big break was a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He played Steve, one of Stanley Kowalski's poker buddies. His film debut was in Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us" in 1992. Recently he played the defense secretary in "Zero Dark Thirty." Gandolfini worked again with "Sopranos" creator David Chase for the `60s period drama "Not Fade Away." He played the old-school father of a wannabe rocker.
"DEVIOUS MAIDS" - SUSAN LUCCI
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Susan Lucci doesn't agree with those who feel her new series "Devious Maids" insults Latinas by having them play maids. Lucci says "not one character is a cliche." She says "no one's defined by what they do" or by "how big their bank account is." Lucci's had a maid for 30 years. She says Frieda (FREE'-duh) is her "good right arm." Lucci says there's only one person who gets a full page in her autobiography and that's Frieda. Devious Maids premieres Sunday on Lifetime.
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Susan Lucci is defending her new series "Devious Maids." She spoke with AP Entertainment Editor Michael Weinfeld in advance of Sunday's premiere.
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Susan Lucci auditoned for "Devious Maids" by playing her opening scene where she's lying under a bed, crying because her young lover said she looked 40.
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Susan Lucci says she can relate to her character's insecurities about her looks. ((longer version of cut in wrap))
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Susan Lucci doesn't agree with those who think the show insults Latinas by having them play maids. ((longer version of cut in wrap))
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Susan Lucci says her maid Frieda has been with her 30 years. ((longer version of cut in wrap)) ((Frieda is pronounced FREE'duh))
ANNA CHLUMSKY OF "VEEP" WILL HAVE TO CLEAN UP HER ACT WHEN HER FIRST BABY COMES
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anna Chlumsky will have to clean up her act when her first baby comes this summer. Chlumsky has a potty mouth like her character in "Veep." Chlumsky says swear words often creep into her language. She says it's almost part of her muscle memory. "Veep" is more than a job for Chlumsky. She says it gives her fans one more role to talk about so they don't ask her about playing Vada (VAY'-duh) Sultenfuss in "My Girl" 22 years ago. Veep's season finale is Sunday. HBO has already renewed it for season three.
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Anna Chlumsky will have to clean up her act before her baby's born. AP Entertainment Editor Michael Weinfeld says that's because Chlumsky shares one her character's traits on "Veep."
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Anna Chlumsky says her first pregnancy has been easy.
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Anna Chlumsky says she's going to have to stop swearing like her character when the baby's born. ((longer version of cut in wrap))
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Anna Chlumsky says she's glad "Veep" has taken her fans' minds off her first big hit "My Girl" from 22 years ago.
JOHNNY DEPP ON HIS BREAKUP: "A BIT BUMPY"
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MILEY: BOOZE IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN WEED
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