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Natalie Portman is the official Oscar front-runner
Gold Derby"That's it! The best actress race is already over!" gasped a notable Oscar-tracking journo after witnessing Natalie Portman's dazzling diva turn in Darren Aronofsky's ballet thriller, "Black Swan," at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was equally... -
Can Kate Winslet win Emmy for Joan Crawford's Oscar-winning role in 'Mildred Pierce'?
Gold DerbyKate Winslet has not been seen on screen since "The Reader" was booked into theaters early last year. After winning the Oscar for that performance, she surprised everyone when she chose as her next project a TV remake of the 1945 film "Mildred Pierce,"... -
Quiz: Who won consecutive Academy Awards?
Gold DerbyIf last year's Academy Award champ Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") triumphs next February for starring, just like John Wayne, in "True Grit," he'll become one of the few stars to nab consecutive Oscars. Some famous past examples: Luise Rainer ("The Great... -
Oscars quiz: Which costars were both nominated for best actress?
Gold DerbyWhile dishing the Oscars conundrum facing "The Kids Are All Right" costars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, Scott Feinberg cites the five past examples of when two leading ladies from the same film were nominated for best actress. Four of the pairs... -
Whitley Heights restoration evokes 1920s Hollywood
The feel of classic Hollywood permeates a renovated 1920s Spanish Revival home in Whitley Heights that sits on a bluff facing the Hollywood sign and surrounding hillside.
An early celebrity enclave, Whitley Heights was Hollywood's first National Historic...Tags: Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino
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Anne Froelick Taylor dies at 96; blacklisted screenwriter
Anne Froelick Taylor, a Hollywood screenwriter who co-wrote the 1950 Joan Crawford drama "Harriet Craig" but whose career was cut short when she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96.
Taylor, who received screen credit as Anne...Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Social Issues, Contracts, Literature
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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist
The Daily MirrorDec. 10, 1947: Peggy Cleary's restaurant, Talk Oâ the Town, gets plenty of talk, especially on Wednesday nights when she shows old pictures. Last week "The Covered Wagon" was shown there and had the crowds roaring. The screen reflected the stamp of a... -
Only one of Oscars' top winners added to National Film Registry
Gold DerbyEvery year since 1989, the National Film Registry -- a branch of the Library of Congress -- has chosen 25 movies to preserve for posterity. This year, as usual, most of its choices aren't the ones deemed the best of their day by Hollywood -- that is,... -
Book review: 'Tell-All' by Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk is as subtle as a straight right to the jaw, and just as bracing.
His 1996 novel "Fight Club" was a terrific meditation on the decrepit state of modern manhood. It had a relentless pace, brutal honesty and pitch-black humor.
Made into...Tags: Betty Grable, Happiness (state of mind), Dining and Drinking, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor
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Weekly Wrapup: A fire-proofed house, flu-proofed dorms and a boredom-proofed garden
L.A. at HomeIn the still-kicking, hold-in-your-hands, probably-costs-less-than-what-you-paid-for-that-can-of-Diek-Coke issue of the Los Angeles Times Home section today: Home of the Times: A couple in the Malibu hills vow not to let disaster strike twice. Their 700-... -
Book review: 'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham' by Selina Hastings
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Selina Hastings
Random House: 640 pp., $35
The story of William Somerset Maugham, the stammering young boy who became a doctor and then the world's most famous writer since Dickens, has often been told,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Winston Churchill, Gore Vidal, World War I (1914-1918), England
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Wednesday's TV Highlights: KCET has a profile of Celia Cruz
Show TrackerQUEEN OF SALSA: Cuban singer Celia Cruz is remembered on 'Voces,' at 10 p.m. on KCET. SERIES America's Nightly Scoreboard: The series examines the state of the banking industry since the collapse of Lehman Bros. in 'Last Banks Standing' (4......
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