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Miley Cyrus closing the book on her teenage years at Toluca Lake home
Miley Cyrus' family home in Toluca Lake is on the market at $5.995 million.
Although the singer-songwriter-actress hasn't lived there in recent years, the more than half-acre property recalls teenage years spent lounging around the swimming pool or practicing maneuvers on the skateboard ramp.
Beyond a gate, a tree-lined brick driveway leads to a Tuscan-style house built in 2007 and designed by Montecito architect Bob Easton. The Old World-inspired home and walls are partially wreathed in ivy.
Wrought-iron work, copper rain gutters, a Juliet balcony, columns and arches are among architectural features. The three-car garage has arched individual...
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Miley Cyrus closing the book on her teenage years at Toluca Lake home
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Bob Eubanks on bringing the Beatles to Hollywood Bowl in 1964
A lot of folks in the music business talk about betting the house on a hunch, but veteran Top 40 deejay and TV show host Bob Eubanks is one who literally did just that when he arranged for the Beatles to play at the Hollywood Bowl 50 years ago.
That...
WGA issues a 'call to arms' over proposed Fox-Time Warner deal
The Writers Guild of America, West is stepping up its fight over Rupert Murdoch's proposed $80-billion offer to acquire Time Warner Inc.
In an email letter to members Tuesday, the guild's leaders issued a "call to arms" in response to the offer...
'Sharknado 2' aims to have even more bite
If it's true that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, then neither does a sharknado.
For the sequel to last summer's surprise social media phenomenon, director Anthony C. Ferrante knew he had to take his low-budget sharks-in-a-tornado...
Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC
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Oscars 2014: The full list of nominees and winners
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"12 Years a Slave" took top honors at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday by winning the Oscar for best picture. Added to Lupita Nyong'o's win for supporting actress...
Oscars 2014: Final predictions in all 24 categories
You should have your Oscar pool by now. Twenty-four categories. One hundred and twenty-one choices. And, no, "The Lego Movie" is not among them. (Next year. Next year.)
We've been here for you for the last six months, starting back in September...
Screenwriting guru Robert McKee on this year's Oscar contenders
Moviegoers who saw the twisty, Charlie Kaufman-penned meta-film "Adaptation" will recall that a hammy, tough-talking screenwriting guru named Robert McKee guided one of the characters to writing a cliche-ridden script that sold for an exorbitant...
Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Law & Order: SVU' and 'Chicago PD'
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Oscars 2014: Our predictions in all 24 categories
Oscar ballots are out, and the print edition of The Los Angeles Times' The Envelope that ran Tuesday includes my predictions for all 24 categories in this year's Academy Awards -- a forecast that, because of deadlines, had been made several days earlier....
WGA Awards: Watch Billy Ray accept honor for adapted screenplay
It has been said that every movie is made three times: in the writing, in the shooting and in the editing. At the Writers Guild of America Awards last Sunday, "Captain Phillips" scribe Billy Ray paid tribute to the latter stages upon winning the...
'Her,' 'Captain Phillips' win top Writers Guild film awards
The Writers Guild of America honored Spike Jonze for his future-set love story "Her" with its award for original screenplay and Billy Ray for "Captain Phillips," the true story of a hijacking at sea, for adapted screenplay on...
Oscar race up in air as 'Gravity,' 'Hustle,' '12 Years' log wins
When Oscar nominations were announced last week, "Gravity" and "American Hustle" led the field, each winning 10. "12 Years a Slave" was right behind them with nine nominations. Then "Hustle" won the Screen Actors...
New releases: 'Captain Phillips' puts you on the boat in a hijacking
Captain Phillips
Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $40.99
Available on VOD beginning Jan. 21
The true story of the hijacking of the freighter Maersk Alabama becomes a refreshingly original action movie in "Captain Phillips," a Paul...
Oscar nominations 2014: Screenwriters put character first
The 10 films nominated for this year's Academy Awards for original screenplay and adapted screenplay tell diverse and distinctive stories: those of a couple squabbling on a Greek vacation, an Irish mother searching for the child she was forced to give up,...
Film awards nominees mingle at BAFTA tea in L.A.
The event: Guests didn't need to be British to attend Saturday’s BAFTA Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party, “but you have to love the Brits,” joked Nigel Daly, the chair of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' L.A. chapter.
The scene: Sure...
'12 Years a Slave,' 'Philomena' among USC Scripter nominees
The authors and screenwriters of "Captain Phillips," "Philomena," "The Spectacular Now," "12 Years a Slave" and "What Maisie Knew" have been nominated for the 26th USC Libraries Scripter Award.
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BAFTA 2014: The complete winners/nominees list
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'American Hustle,' 'Her,' 'Nebraska' receive WGA nominations
The screenplays of "American Hustle," "Her," "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Blue Jasmine" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2013.
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Leaps of faith and appetites for work attract Tom Hanks
In 1979, when Tom Hanks was just another struggling New York actor, he withdrew a biography of Walt Disney from the public library and found himself fascinated by the animator's story, in particular his tenaciousness in the face of early professional...