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Before Las Vegas, Tijuana was Southern Californias glitzy escape
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's dusk in Tijuana's red-light district, and two bouncers are slouching outside a strip joint called the Chicago Club. A car rolls up, a window rolls down, and the American guy on the passenger side starts asking questions in awkward Spanish. Looks like...Tags: Personal Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, History, Business
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Marian Manners, Prudence Penny, the first celebrity cooks
Tune the television to so many rapid-fire cooking shows today, and it seems eventually you're bound to witness some kind of shouting match. It's enough to make the stomach nostalgic for the kinder, simpler days of Marian Manners and Prudence Penny, the...Tags: Recipes, Newspapers, Celebrities, Personal Data Collection, Mass Media
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John Sayles, novelist, seeks a binding agreement
For 40 minutes last month he held them spellbound, reading about America in 1898. John Sayles didn't just give the crowd a taste of his new novel, "Some Time in the Sun" -- he performed a comedy about tabloid newsboys in New York, playing 26 characters...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Entertainment, Movies, U.S. Military
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'Alive in Necropolis' by Doug Dorst
Alive in Necropolis
A Novel
Doug Dorst
Riverhead: 440 pp., $25.95
Real estate means a lot in America -- ask the Indians. Or ask some of the first white Californians to be displaced by gentrification. They can't answer, being dead. In 1900, San...Tags: Heart Attack, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Joe DiMaggio, Gang Activity
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His wit was hard-boiled
Special to The TimesWE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...Tags: Music Theater, Nazi Party, Toy Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Laurence Sterne
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This town is rated noir
Special to The TimesNOIR is the indigenous Los Angeles form: It was created here, it grew up here and from here it spread, not only as a genre but as a way of looking at life, character and fate. As a framing lens, it's now so powerful that it seems not only to be a strategy...Tags: Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Mann, Genres, Celebrities
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Napa Valley medieval: Castello di Amorosa
Times Staff WriterA castle is rising south of this small resort town that promises to be Napa Valley's most lavish tourist draw. Or a vintner's fortune-busting folly. In April, Daryl Sattui, whose winery and deli a few miles away in St. Helena are a popular picnic stop,...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Politics, Italy, Architecture, Beverage Industry
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Lana Clarkson's fade to black
WESLEY STRICK is a screenwriter whose credits include "Cape Fear" (1991) and "Return to Paradise" (1998). His first novel, "Out There in the Dark," was published last year.You have to wonder about Lana Clarkson. Yes, "Lana Clarkson" was her real name; she wasn't Frances Gumm or Norma Jeane Baker. And Lana was born right here in Southern California, not eastern Tennessee or northern Minnesota. So you have to wonder why &#...Tags: John Lennon, Phil Spector, Crime, Law and Justice, Roger Corman, Achievement Records
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Van Johnson, MGM's boy-next-door, dies at 92
Van Johnson, who soared to stardom during World War II as MGM's boy-next-door in films such as "A Guy Named Joe" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and became one of the era's top box-office draws, died Friday. He was 92.
Johnson, who was most frequently...Tags: Music Theater, Winston Churchill, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Irene Dunne
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Coming soon on EBay: A night at Xanadu
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor half a century, the beds at Hearst Castle have been empty. But now one can be yours for a night. And eight of your friends can join you to dine, swim in the Neptune Pool and toss off lines from "Citizen Kane" like, "I think it would be fun to run a...Tags: W.C. Fields, Auction Service, Arts, Death, Arts and Culture
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Hollywood Bio Hazards
From Moses to Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf to Loretta Lynn, historic figures have been showing up on the big screen since the early days of silent film. This year, by nominating six biographical pictures for Oscars — including three for best picture &#...Tags: Movies, Jane Fonda, Academy Awards, Katharine Hepburn, Cinema Industry
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Ring Lardner Jr., last of the Hollywood 10, dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRing Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died of cancer. He was 85. The last survivor of the so-called Hollywood 10, a group of...Tags: Movies, Academy Awards, Katharine Hepburn, Crime, Law and Justice, Dorothy Parker
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