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Iran Welcomes President Eisenhower
The Daily MirrorElizabeth Taylor is out of the hospital ... And The Times prepares to announce its Women of the Year. Teresa "Terry" Kincheloe, 6, is learning "the domestic arts." She likes to dry the dishes, helps her mother in the kitchen, makes the beds, gardens and... -
Jake Gyllenhaal as the 'Prince of Persia': You try on a coat, you wear for it a while and you give it back
The Hero ComplexThis is a longer version of my feature in this Sunday's Los Angeles Times Calendar section on Jake Gyllenhaal and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." The reporting was all done in San Francisco. With roles in indie or...... -
Sunday's TV Highlights: âChildrens Hospitalâ on Cartoon Network
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of July 4 - 10 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here BEST MEDICINE? The Web-based comedy series âChildrens Hospitalâ comes to cable...... -
Movie Star Mystery Photo
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Update: Our mystery fellow is Daniel Frohman, shown above left with Pola Negri and Jesse Lasky in a photo dated Oct. 8, 1922. This weekâs mystery fellow is the man on the left in the high collar. Heâs with two mystery... -
How clueless is Variety's Hollywood coverage?
The Big PictureEverywhere you look these days, Variety has been getting a black eye, whether it's from a nasty lawsuit filed by a filmmaker who's furious that the paper took $400,000 in advertising and then gave his film a bad review or...... -
From the Vaults: 'Way Down East' (1920)
The Daily MirrorFive years after âBirth of a Nation,â D.W. Griffith directed this five-hankie melodrama based on a hugely popular stage play. If you're fond of rambling 19th century novels or four-week 1970s TV miniseries, with tragic heroines and broad casts of... -
On the trail of 'Ramona' in California
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Ventura, Riverside, and San Diego Counties -- Why, you may ask, are we rushing north on Interstate 5 and veering east on California 126 into the Santa Clara Valley? Why are we pulling off the road by a fruit stand and slipping into the...Tags: Homes, Helen Hunt, Family, Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945)
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'On Tarzan' by Alex Vernon
The cover art for Alex Vernon's slim cultural biography "On Tarzan" is a photo of winding green tendrils and vines, vines being the equivalent of the cross-town bus for the Lord of the Apes.
But the photo is also a warning of the thicket we are about...Tags: Interior Policy, Horatio Alger, Indigenous People, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Entertainment
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Review: 'The Wild Child'
In the summer of 1798 in a forest in the South of France, several hunters and their dogs captured a boy of 11 or 12, filthy and long-haired and walking on all fours. He landed in the National Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, where he was put on...Tags: Wild Child (movie), Documentary (genre)
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'Of Equal Measure' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Times Theater CriticThe trouble with historical fiction is that there often isn't a satisfying amount of either element. Fact constrains fantasy as the helpless past gets reduced to a pencil sketch. "Of Equal Measure," Tanya Barfield's drama about the hypocrisy of Woodrow...Tags: Kirk Douglas, White House, Michael T. Weiss, Minority Groups, African Americans
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It is rocket science
Times Staff Writer1800s -- 1841 William Wolfskill planted the first local commercial orange groves on 2 acres east of what is now Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles. 1881 On Dec. 4, the Los Angeles Times began publication as the Los Angeles Daily Times. The first...Tags: Helen Hunt, Herbalife Limited, Minority Groups, Los Angeles International Airport, Elections
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L.A.'s screening gems
Times Staff WriterPerhaps the only people who brag more about their illustrious alumni than Ivy Leaguers are the deans of film schools. At USC, the names dropped are Robert Zemeckis, Jay Roach, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. UCLA proudly lists Francis Ford Coppola, Gore...Tags: Gaming, University of California, Los Angeles, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Steven Spielberg, Entertainment
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