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How Leonard Nimoy was cast as Mr. Spock on 'Star Trek'
His role as Mr. Spock made a lasting impact on pop culture, but Leonard Nimoy barely noticed when he first heard about the role back in 1966. "I really didn't give it a lot of thought," Nimoy recalled of the time his agent first called about the part. Nimoy -- who died Friday at 83 -- recalled how he won the landmark role as the relentlessly logical half-human, half-Vulcan Spock during a November 2000 interview with the TV Academy for its Archive of American Television Project. Writer-producer Gene Roddenberry was developing "Trek" as a pilot for a sci-fi series about a team of explorers aboard a spaceship. He had worked briefly with Nimoy on another series...
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How Leonard Nimoy was cast as Mr. Spock on 'Star Trek'
His role as Mr. Spock made a lasting impact on pop culture, but Leonard Nimoy barely noticed when he first heard about the role back in 1966.
"I really didn't give it a lot of thought," Nimoy recalled of the time his agent first called about...
Leonard Nimoy: On TV he was much more than Mr. Spock
Depending on when you encountered him, Leonard Nimoy was always something different. In the '60s, he was a bit player on TV. In the '80s, he was a successful film director. And in the '90s and beyond he was a respected photographer and artist.
But...
Net neutrality: Telecom firms prepare to unleash the lawyers
Here's what went down on Friday's Consumer Confidential segment on KTLA-TV:
Net neutrality. Now that the Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules for online content and privacy, phone and cable companies have wasted no time releasing...
Leonard Nimoy, who played the iconic “Star Trek” character Mr. Spock, died Friday in Bel-Air. The 83-year-old actor had end-stage […]
'Sex Box' reality show sparks controversy
The new reality show "Sex Box" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: Each episode features three different couples who have sex in a camera-free, soundproof cube on a stage in front of a live audience. Afterward, they discuss the...
Net neutrality: Five things to watch for as FCC votes on Internet rules
Culminating more than a decade of debate, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote Thursday on tough net neutrality regulations for online traffic.
The Democrat-controlled agency is expected to approve a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom...
Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador'
Gabriel Kahane hearts L.A.
Although the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter has been heralded as a star of New York's new-music scene, his latest album is a love letter to the City of Angels. Now, "The Ambassador" — 13 songs, each based on a...
'CBS Evening News' anchor Scott Pelley is all about the journalism
If you look closely at the desk where Scott Pelley anchors the "CBS Evening News," you can spot about a dozen small, framed photographs standing off to his right.
They depict the 13 journalists who have died in the line of duty for CBS News,...
FCC poised to favor Internet users over service providers
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to adopt a contentious set of rules Thursday that, in order to preserve the freedom of consumers and content providers online, dramatically limits the freedom that Time Warner Cable, AT&T and other...
FCC tightens Internet oversight with new net neutrality rules
Federal regulators dramatically expanded government oversight of the Internet, installing the once-arcane concept of net neutrality as a guiding doctrine for broadband networks that have become essential to everyday life.
To ensure the uninhibited flow...
Critic's Pick: A new-music cornucopia
When California State University, Fullerton, composer Pamela Madsen began a festival devoted to contemporary female composers 14 years ago, she wasn’t exactly a voice in the wilderness.
There were successful female composers. Southern California had a...
The reality is there's plenty of fake TV shows in Alaska
Is this mortifying era of northern overexposure ever going to end?
Here in Alaska, TV crews have been everywhere the last few years, clutching scripts for “unscripted” shows and handing out confidentiality agreements, asking us to play along. A friend in...
FCC approves tough net neutrality rules amid sharp partisan debate
In a landmark decision for the future of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved tough net neutrality regulations to oversee online traffic.
The new rules prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating against...
'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism
In its own disturbing, slithery way, the train-wreck watchable melodrama "Maps to the Stars" is as much a horror show as any that the film's director, David Cronenberg, has helmed over his long and provocative career.
This is due, in no small...
''71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland
An incendiary film that takes off like a house afire, "'71" is a tense thriller from Britain that so adroitly joins physical intensity, emotional authenticity and political acuity that you may find yourself forgetting to take a breath.
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Hollywood's creative class cheers FCC passage of net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission's landmark vote on open Internet rules is being cheered by some in Hollywood who see the Internet as the new frontier for creativity and free expression.
The FCC voted, 3 to 2, on Thursday to adopt tough net...
Datebook: J.M.W. Turner's late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups
The painted dramas of Mr. Turner. A play about Tokyo Rose. And the architectural images of an award-winning photographer. Plus: an influential African portraitist, two exhibitions about Afrofuturism and a show inspired by objects at an estate sale. Here’s...
California Public Utilities Commission holds Comcast hearing
Consumers on Wednesday took turns praising and blasting Comcast's proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable, which would make the combined company the dominant provider of cable TV and high-speed Internet service in California.
The California Public...
O'Reilly defends his war reporting record again, this time in El Salvador
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly defended himself Wednesday night against a new charge that he misrepresented his record as a war correspondent, this time during the civil war in El Salvador.
Media Matters, a nonprofit organization that monitors...
Finance and Thrift Co. to buy Pan American Bank in East L.A.
A Central Valley firm that started out 90 years ago making loans to farm and ranch workers agreed to buy financially troubled Pan American Bank in Los Angeles in an all-stock deal, rescuing California's oldest Latino bank.
Finance and Thrift Co. in...
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