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L.A.'s screen-star mayors
Hollywood, as much of the world does not realize, is merely a neighborhood within the city limits of Los Angeles. It hasn’t been its own city for 103 years, and yet it’s the tiny, glamorous tail wagging the city’s workaday dog, which...
Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Gracie Allen, Entertainment, Screen Actors Guild, Television
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David Fincher, Cuba's female filmmakers among weekend highlights
Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...
Tags: Robert Redford, Jerry Lewis, Gracie Allen, Robert De Niro, Shirley MacLaine
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Would modern L.A. voters elect a 'colorful' mayor?
In the midst of this campaign for a new mayor for Los Angeles, I spent a bit of time writing about the old ones, the characters, the bloviators and crooks, the puritanical and the amorous. And readers loved them. But truthfully, now, would we really...
Tags: Gracie Allen, Elections, Local Elections, Politics, Johnny Carson
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Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent
Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79.
For two decades, Mengers was one of...Tags: Gracie Allen, Julie Harris, Brian de Palma, Celebrities, Government
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, George Bernard Shaw, Gracie Allen, Ray Bradbury, Waukegan
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Ray Bradbury: Author's roots at L.A. high school celebrated
L.A. NOWRay Bradbury was being remembered Wednesday at his alma mater, Los Angeles High School. Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles High more than 70 years ago, but a plaque honoring him still hangs at the entrance to the school library, which...... -
Dory Previn dies at 86; Oscar-nominated songwriter
Although she was an Oscar-nominated songwriter, Dory Previn was better known for ballads that spoke to wounded souls. A gifted lyricist, she mined her traumatic childhood and later mental illness to write confessional songs that found an audience —...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Mia Farrow, Music Industry, Arthur Freed, Arts and Culture
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The Morning Fix: Oprah scores! Martha Stewart getting the hook?
Company TownOprah Winfrey scores, but Martha Stewart may be off the air soon.... -
Oprah Winfrey is bringing her annual Oscar special to OWN
Show TrackerOprah Winfrey will host an annual Oscar special on her cable channel OWN beginning Feb. 15. Oprah's first guests: Oscar nominees Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Jonah Hill.... -
OWN cancels Rosie O'Donnell's show
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Sue Mengers, powerhouse Hollywood agent, dies at 79
Company TownSue Mengers, a veteran talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. At the time of...... -
Oprah Winfrey Network announces new series amid ongoing struggles
Show TrackerOprah Winfrey, the founder of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, announced the launch of "Oprah's Next Chapter," featuring Winfrey traveling around the country and having encounters with celebrities....
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