Real Estate
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch sold his house in Beverly Hills for $30 million, public records show.
Feb. 25, 2015
Movies
In 2009, Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police and composer of scores for “Rumblefish,” “Wall Street” and TV’s “The Equalizer,” was commissioned to do a score for a live arena version (with a chariot race) of Civil War Gen.
March 10, 2016
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Channel 7 Tuesday at 1 a.m.): High-grade ‘40s women’s picture, in which a strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck is teamed with Kirk Douglas in his screen debut. (2:00) Ben-Hur (1926) (TNT Tuesday at 5 p.m.): Fred Niblo’s glorious silent religious epic, featuring that still-incredible chariot race between Ramon Novarro (in the title role) and Francis X.
March 19, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Blood and Sand (SelecTV Sunday at 3 p.m.): In Fred Niblo’s original 1922 silent version, Rudolph Valentino’s anguished bullfighter seemed reflective of his own difficult personal life.
Oct. 9, 1988
To accompany the “Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film” exhibition at the County Museum of Art, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is presenting a series of films in the museum’s Bing Theater that continues Wednesday at 8 p.m. with the American premiere of a newly restored print of “Ben-Hur” (1926), a joint project of Turner Entertainment and Thames Television under the supervision of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill.
Jan. 12, 1988
Fred Niblo’s “Blood and Sand” (1922), which screens Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Silent Movie, 611 N.
March 9, 1993
Antonio Villaraigosa, who served eight years as L.A.’
March 7, 2015
Architect Ken Ungar drew from the works of Wallace Neff when designing his personal residence in a guard-gated Westlake Village community.
Dec. 9, 2017
‘War Photographer,’ beginning a series at LACMA, profiles a man and his pictures.
June 6, 2002
Beverly Hills plans to raze the once-opulent 1925 cinema to make way for a luxury hotel complex, but conservancy groups and others are looking for a way to save it.
Sept. 30, 2004