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Paramount Pictures sued by financing partner for fraud
Company TownThis post has been updated. See note below for details. Paramount Pictures withheld profit from such hit movies as “Mission: Impossible 3,” “Jackass 2” and the “Transformers” trilogy, according to a lawsuit filed in Los... -
Orson Welles Describes Offer for Rigged Quiz Show
The Daily MirrorNov. 1, 1959: Orson Welles says he turned down an offer to pose as a genius on a TV quiz show, explaining that he knew nothing about baseball and would miss all such questions. A producer told him: âWe're not going to ask you any questions you don't... -
Suspect Held in Girl’s Abduction, Killing
The Daily MirrorArt Buchwald talks to Gregory Corso on the rise of the Beats. "This is going to be a great age," Corso says. "I can feel it. If we can only get some beatniks in the armies of the world we can burn down war." An unidentified suspect is arrested in the... -
Alain Bernheim dies at 86; agent sued Paramount over 'Coming to America'
Alain Bernheim, a producer and literary agent who with humorist Art Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures for using their concept for the 1988 film "Coming to America," has died. He was 86.
Bernheim, a Hollywood Hills resident, died Friday of complications...Tags: Health, Sean Penn, Hospitals and Clinics, Dialysis, Entertainment
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David L. Wolper dies at 82; producer of 'Roots,' 1984 L.A. Olympics opening ceremonies
David L. Wolper, the award-winning television documentary producer best known for the blockbuster TV miniseries "Roots" and for the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies he created for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, has died. He was 82....Tags: Health, John Schlesinger, Heart and Circulatory System, Newspaper and Magazine, Internists
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Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: Cleveland Browns, Nobel Prize Awards, Ike Turner, Ingmar Bergman, U.S. Supreme Court
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A workaday road that cuts through California's back story
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCalifornia is laced with fabled roadways: Highway 1, the Golden State, El Camino Real, Route 66 and many others. Some follow the footpaths of padres, the trails of wagon trains. And some are monuments to the Freeway Age and California's bearhug embrace of...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Financial and Business Services, Travel, Transportation, Richard Nixon
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Carly Simon: Coming around again with 'This Kind of Love'
![CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang 'You're So Vain' and did such a nice job on it, and Carly [Smithson] was named after me?"](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39358070-30181833.jpg "CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on \" American Idol.\" \"I tune in whenever I get a chance,\" she says in that signature dusky voice. \"How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang 'You're So Vain' and did such a nice job on it, and Carly [Smithson] was named after me?\"")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Laura Nyro, Ellen DeGeneres
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The Times and Japan-bashing
If you haven't been following our Dust-Up on China engagement with Joseph Farah and Andrés Martinez, here's a sample from Tuesday's exchange. Said Farah: I'm a fan of imports from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. I think most Americans are. These countries...Tags: Mitsubishi, Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Dana Carvey, International Trade
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Lawyer to Celebrities Is Subject of Inquiry
Times Staff WriterHis name is nowhere in Monday's 60-page indictment of celebrity gumshoe and alleged wiretapper Anthony Pellicano. But the shadow of 76-year-old lawyer Bertram Fields, who for years employed Pellicano as an investigator, looms over the case. Listed...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Legal Services, The Walt Disney Co., Business Enterprises, Breach of Contract
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interviewer, dies
NEW YORK — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were "Mike Wallace...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Blues Brothers (movie), Vietnam
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CBS newsman Mike Wallace dies at 93
AP Television WriterCBS newsman Mike Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make “60 Minutes” the most...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Vietnam, Television Industry
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