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Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president
Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...
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Award-winning Italian and French classics on tap this week
Italian classic films directed by masters of cinema Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni will be vying for viewers' attention Thursday evening. The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood presents Fellini's...
Tags: Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), John Forsythe, Wanted (movie), France, Erich von Stroheim
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Review: A high-voltage 'End of the Rainbow'
Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time. The central prop of the bio-musical now playing at...
Tags: Music, Louis B. Mayer, Music Theater, Rosalind Russell, Judy Garland
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Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'
Dear Abby: "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?" "Absolutely nothing," she replied. The wry answer from Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips...
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Ring in the new year with classic comedies
The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...
Tags: MGM Inc., Literature, Comedy (genre), Music, Katharine Hepburn
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Facial hair fun: Bacon shaving cream, mustache bottle openers
As the facial-hair-focused month of Movember draws to a close, we thought we'd revisit some of the beard- and mustache-themed merchandise that's come to our attention, including bacon-scented shaving cream, a stainless steel, mustache-shaped bottle opener...
Tags: New Products, Arts and Culture, Personal Service, Morgan Spurlock
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Western Costume, closet to the stars, turns 100
Los Angeles TimesTo the casual passerby, there's nothing remarkable about the 120,000-square-foot former printing plant fronting a sun-baked stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood. There's nothing to indicate that, just beyond the double doors, gangsters are earning...Tags: Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), Music, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vivien Leigh, Arts and Culture
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Breads, Pumpkin, Neil Patrick Harris, Music, Cheers (tv program)
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...Tags: Services and Shopping, Warren Beatty, Museum Dioramas, Getty Center, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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David Thomson takes a wide view of movies in 'The Big Screen'
Even the most ardent traditionalists have to acknowledge that vast, sweeping changes are at work within the realm of film culture. The very practice of shooting on actual physical film, not to mention running that film through a projector for viewing, has...
Tags: Movies, Jacques Rivette, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Entertainment
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Eleanor LaVove dies at 94; co-founder of dollhouse museum
Eleanor LaVove, a former fashion editor who co-founded Angels Attic, a museum devoted to antique and contemporary dollhouses, toys and miniatures, died Aug. 24 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 94. The cause was ovarian cancer, said...
Tags: St. John's Health Center, Ovarian Cancer, United Air Lines, Autism, Arts and Culture
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Around Town: Snow White, Casablanca at Oscars Outdoors
24 FramesThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduces its new "Oscars Outdoors" screening series this Friday evening with the 1942 Oscar-winning romantic classic "Casablanca," followed by Walt Disney's seminal 1937 animated feature, "Snow White and...
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