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Top 5 tough-guy actors who can sing and dance
Tough guys do dance and sing. With two of Hollywood’s biggest manly men now starring in the same film, there’s a good chance that some of their male fans secretly wish they were seeing Wolverine versus Maximus. Instead, Hugh Jackman and...
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L.A.'s greatest sports moments No. 12: Dodgers' first game in L.A.
The Fabulous ForumWe asked you to send in your picks for the greatest sports moments in L.A. history, and 1,181 ballots later we are unveiling the top 20 vote-getters. Each weekday we will unveil a new moment until we reach No. 1....... -
Oscar voters: 99-year-old in academy 'never wanted to be a star'
24 FramesOscars 2012: At 99, Connie Sawyer is one of the oldest members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.... -
Oscars' oldest voter, 101, offers link to Hollywood's Golden Age
24 FramesOscars 2012: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences is populated with older members -- producers, actors, directors and others -- who serve as a living testament to a time when Hollywood was a small town in the most literal sense. But perhaps none... -
L.A.'s postwar art scene: Hot rods and hedonism
In September 1945, under a pall of ocher smog and summer heat, Los Angeles entered the postwar world. The city then was bigger, wealthier and more diverse than ever. Its established people — mostly past middle age and conservative, a few who were...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vincent Price, Man Ray, Culture, Andy Warhol
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Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'
Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101.
Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...Tags: Politics, Kirk Douglas, Literature, Ray Bradbury, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Barbara Kent, Edgar Villchur
Barbara Kent
Silent film star also was in talkies
Barbara Kent, 103, an actress who began her career in silent films of the 1920s and made the transition to talkies in the Harold Lloyd comedies "Welcome Danger" and "Feet First," died Oct. 13 in Palm...Tags: Greenwich Village, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Celebrities, John Gilbert, Obituaries
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Hugh Hefner helps present a Humphrey Bogart retrospective
Hugh Hefner has a confession.
"I think I opened the first Playboy Club because of 'Casablanca.' I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick's," admits the pajama-clad founder of the Playboy empire.
The Oscar-winning 1942...Tags: John Ford, Death, Arts and Culture, Spencer Tracy, Billy Wilder
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Book review: 'The Troubled Man'
Los Angeles TimesMother of Mercy, is this the end of Kurt Wallander? Don't worry, the peerless Swedish police detective, the pride of the force in rural Ystad, doesn't get ruthlessly gunned down like Edward G. Robinson's Rico Bandello in "Little Caesar." It's that author...Tags: Book, Mystery (genre), Human Interest, Crimes, Crime (genre)
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Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men
Gold DerbyOn Wednesday, the motion picture academy announced the four honorees to be feted at the second annual Governors Awards on Nov. 14. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is to receive the Thalberg Award while film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 28, 1941
The Daily MirrorApril 28, 1941: Irvin S. Cobb fills in for Lee Shippey, who is still recovering from surgery. Tom Treanor files a report from a press junket to Venezuela, saying that reporters are treating it as a vacation while the sponsors...... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 30, 1941
The Daily MirrorApril 30, 1941: Horatio Winslow fills in for columnist Lee Shippey, who is recovering from surgery, with a piece about the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America. The organization, unofficially supported by the Army, is intended to respond to........
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