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  • Recording artists Patti LaBelle, Macy Grey and Fishbone's Angelo Moore also appear in "Idlewild," along with actors Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Ben Vereen and Cicely Tyson, among others.

    Filmstalker: Outkast movie gets release date 2006

  • Instead, the New York International Airport, commonly called Idlewild, was renamed for President Kennedy.

    Roseanne Colletti: Verrazzano versus Verrazano 2009

  • When John F. Kennedy Airport, then called Idlewild, opened in 1948, air travel was an elegant affair for which you dressed.

    Terminal Four Prepares For Takeoff 2007

  • They landed -- the airport then was called Idlewild, not even Kennedy.

    Damon Runyan: A Life 1991

  • Boeing 707 that had taken off from what was then called Idlewild, cracked hard into the ground after circling a Brussels airport three or four times before a planned landing.

    NY Daily News FILIP BONDY 2011

  • Five years before that, it was Maysles who captured the legendary footage of the Beatles as they stepped off the plane at JFK airport then called Idlewild on their way to the Ed Sullivan Show.

    The Guardian World News Ed Pilkington 2011

  • The jet, bound for what was then officially known as International Airport but was often called Idlewild now John F. Kennedy International Airport, strayed into the path of Trans

    NYT > Home Page By JAMES BARRON 2010

  • He was sitting in the tower at the airport commonly known as Idlewild - now John F. Kennedy International

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK MCGEEHAN 2010

  • A: We didn't know until we landed at JF which was then called Idlewild - no idea why.

    unknown title 2009

  • A: We didn't know until we landed at JF which was then called Idlewild - no idea why.

    unknown title 2009

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