HOLLYWOOD COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

Why here? Why did the distant burg of Los Angeles become to the movies what Mesopotamia and Athens...




Coiffed and cultivated, Hollywood virtually invented the word. Where has it...




Sampling Los Angeles Times reviewers’ opinions through the decades.




A select sprinkling of some of the films that changed Hollywood.




Ten TV programs that had "inarguable influence."




Small kingdoms known as MGM, RKO and Warners once ruled. Buildings and names...




Old Hollywood or new, Dick Zanuck has been a player.




Villages of soundstages, theme streets and traditions, offering a sense of place...




Hollywood gossip columnists, fan magazines and industry trade papers were the...




There was a time when stars of stage and screen enjoyed spending a night on...




Screenwriters and directors have played a major role in how Los Angeles is...




And now for a slow pan through notable developments in the life of the movies...




Hollywood renews its long-standing affection for foreign filmmakers in an era...




OK, listen: "Birth of a Nation" meets "The Magnificent Seven," maybe with a...




Now as then, celebrity scandals make for splashy news.




It wasn’t the pictures that got small. The insects got big. Real big.




Test your knowledge of Hollywood trivia and see how you rate.




From Apple to Zoopraxiscope, a guide to technologies that have helped to shape...




In a company town where people stay for the credits (and even applaud the names in the fast-rolling small...




I'm a screenwriter by trade, but I came to the novel about Hollywood long before I started writing...