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Bob Mitchell dies at 96; silent-movie organist was house musician for Dodgers
Bob Mitchell, an organist who was the first such house musician at Dodger Stadium and the last surviving working accompanist from the silent-film era, has died. He was 96.
Mitchell died Saturday from congestive heart failure at Hancock Park...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Fritz Lang, Music Industry, Entertainment, Bing Crosby
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From the Vaults: 'My Favorite Wife' (1940)
The Daily MirrorReturning to earlier themes of Cary Grant and wife-swapping, this week we have "My Favorite Wife," a screwball comedy. As usual with this genre, your mood will determine whether you find the antics hilarious or simply trying. So if you are at all tired or... -
'The Proposal' director Anne Fletcher is just not that into romantic comedies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHere's the thing: "The Proposal" may look like a big, fat romantic comedy, but the film's director, Anne Fletcher, has other ideas. Sure, it stars Sandra Bullock, and, yes, she and Ryan Reynolds play feuding co-workers who probably (definitely) wind up...Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Romance (genre), The Hangover (movie), The Proposal (movie), Sandra Bullock
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Paper suits him: Artist Greg Lauren (Ralph's nephew) crafts cool men's clothes from crumpled paper
All The RageGreg Laurenâs journal entries have taken up residence in an empty storefront on Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood. A Glen plaid suit jacket and matching vest worthy of Cary Grant -- but for the deep wrinkles -- stands in one...... -
Hotel Bel-Air holds a garage sale
Robert De Niro slept there. So did Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant.
But the crowd that gathered Thursday morning to buy up a piece of the Hotel Bel-Air, a longtime playground of the rich and famous, was hunting for bargains, not souvenirs.
Closed Oct....Tags: Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Jim Carrey, Lindsay Lohan, Real Estate Sales
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Jennifer Jones Simon gave new life to husband's museum
On a beautiful evening in early October 1999, six years after the death of her husband, Jennifer Jones Simon threw a coming-out party. Not for herself, an Oscar-winning actress who had married industrialist and art collector Norton Simon in 1971, but...Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Billy Wilder, Academy Awards, Social Issues
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Like ghost stories? Hollywood and environs will oblige
Even after the costumes are worn, the candy collected and the ghoulish jack-o'-lantern turned back into a pumpkin, Halloween doesn't have to be over -- if you are willing to be entertained by a good ghost story.
Almost anywhere you look in Southern...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Television, Clark Gable
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Former Los Feliz home of Cary Grant and Chili Peppers drummer listed at $3,485,000
A 1929 Los Feliz home once owned actor Cary Grant and, later, drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come on the market at $3,485,000.
The Spanish Colonial Revival-style villa has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a media room in 6,727...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Property, Chili, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Virginia Cherrill
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'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein
Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let...Tags: Woody Guthrie, Bette Davis, Entertainment, History, Rosalind Russell
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Chuck Palahniuk's blowup extravaganza
Jacket CopyBefore Chuck Palahniuk began dumping boxes of shrink-wrapped plastic inflatables onto the stage and chucking them into the audience, the people who'd paid $40 for VIP tickets stood quietly in four orderly lines: getting tickets, getting through the gate,... -
Elegant Southern comfort at First & Hope
Brand XâSupper clubâ is a nostalgic term that PR flacks like to throw around when describing their client. Picture a glamorous, meticulously decorated room where the likes of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne sit at little tables sipping cocktails and nibbling... -
Budd Schulberg dies at 95; author of 'What Makes Sammy Run?'
Budd Schulberg, who exposed the dark side of American ambition in his acclaimed Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and won an Academy Award for his screenplay depicting the mob-controlled longshoremen's union in the film classic "On the Waterfront,"...Tags: Eva Marie Saint, Germany, Andy Griffith, John Ford, Ernest Hemingway
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