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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...
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...
Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC
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Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Law & Order: SVU' and 'Chicago PD'
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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...
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...
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...
'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...
'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...
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...
WGA West President Chris Keyser to run unopposed
Writers Guild of America, West President Christopher Keyser intends to script a second term as president of the 8,000-member union.
Keyser, co-creator of the Fox television series "Party of Five," was first elected in Sept. 2011 when he...
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...
'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.
...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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