Real Estate
A Los Angeles home built for silent film star Dustin Farnum and currently owned by actress Helen Mirren and her husband, Taylor Hackford, have listed for rent at $35,000.
July 17, 2014
Movies
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June 30, 2014
Is the flag lowered?
Feb. 25, 2007
The UCLA Film and Television Archive joins with the County Museum of Art in a massive retrospective honoring Paramount’s 75th birthday by presenting, along with many other offerings this week, “The Squaw Man” (1914), Hollywood’s first full-length feature film.
July 13, 1987
California
The reopening of the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood is good news for aficionados of those voiceless flickers that kept America entertained through the 1920s.
Nov. 4, 1999
In the Hollywood Hills, actress Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford are asking $18.5 million for their longtime home on 6.5 acres.
July 16, 2021
Travel & Experiences
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Jan. 9, 2011
Claiming that their former neighborhood school is being “held hostage” despite the settlement of a bitter lawsuit with the city school district, a Pacific Beach community group Sunday “rededicated” its attempt to block the conversion of the former Farnum Elementary School into a multiunit housing project.
Sept. 8, 1986
Plans for a new public library and park at the now-unused Farnum Elementary School site in Pacific Beach--strongly supported by area residents--took a major step forward Tuesday when the San Diego city schools board voted to tie down an agreement with the City of San Diego.
Sept. 23, 1987
Sports
Gary Hicks of Glen Avon won the four-lap scratch main event in front of 2,922 Friday in the weekly speedway program at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
June 24, 1989