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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 doors. A flagstone courtyard...
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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...
Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC
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'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...
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...
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...
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...
'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 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,...
Complete list of winners for the 19th Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Steve McQueen's historical drama "12 Years a Slave" earned best picture, and the film's newcomer, Lupita Nyong'o, snagged supporting actress. Meanwhile, David O. Russell's con-artist comedy "American Hustle" picked up several wins,...
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...
BAFTA 2014: The complete winners/nominees list
BEST FILM"12 Years a Slave" WINNER"American Hustle""Captain Phillips""Gravity""Philomena"
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM"Gravity" WINNER"Mandela: Long Walk to...
Films inspired by true events walk a tricky line
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" isn't true. It's only "inspired" by a true story. Screenwriter Danny Strong realized his limitations in constructing a script based on an article about former White House butler Eugene Allen, but rather than...
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...
'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.
...
'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.
Unlike...
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...
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...
Eight things about 'Man of Steel's' Henry Cavill and Gina Carano
As Henry Cavill steals the hearts of many moviegoers with this weekend's "Man of Steel," it should be noted that the British actor playing Superman is currently in a relationship with one Gina Carano.
Here are few things to know about the actor...
Iron Man meltdown: Robert Downey Jr. brings a tot to tears
That moment you learn your hero's not who you thought he was — that's how it was for an 18-month-old Massachusetts boy who was brought to tears by Robert Downey Jr.
Seems the kid expected to meet the real Iron Man. The one in the suit.
Downey, who...
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