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Microcar sells for world record in weekend auction
Tiny cars, big money. An auction over the weekend saw a world-record auction price paid for a microcar. RM Auctions sold the car, a 1958 F.M.R. Tg 500 Tiger, for $322,000, including commission. In all, more than $9.1 million worth of tiny automobiles...
Tags: Passenger Cars, Auction Service, Concours d'Elegance
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Chevrolet to debut 415-horsepower SS sedan ahead of Daytona 500
The Pontiac G8 is dead. Long live the Chevrolet SS. Chevrolet is set to reveal the 415-horsepower V-8 sedan at the Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, one day before the NASCAR version of the car is scheduled to begin qualifying for the Daytona...
Tags: NASCAR, Passenger Cars, Daytona 500, Pontiac, Daytona International Speedway
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Rare Tucker 48 formerly owned by George Lucas headed to auction
Martyn Donaldson leans hard against the hulking 1948 Tucker 48 and rolls it out of his small restoration shop in Pacoima. Although the color on its build sheet is listed as maroon, the midafternoon sun reveals a metallic luster in the showroom quality...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Manufacturing and Engineering, Car Engine Repair, Francis Ford Coppola, Jeff Bridges
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‘Star Wars’ writer Lawrence Kasdan wants spinoff film to ‘start fresh’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFans were relieved this week to learn that Lawrence Kasdan would be writing another “Star Wars” movie. After all, it ...... -
Stuart Freeborn dies at 98; 'Star Wars' makeup artist
It was no accident that British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn resembled his most famous movie creation — Yoda, the wrinkled, ancient sage from the "Star Wars" films. "I looked at myself in the mirror and decided that I was comic, with all these...
Tags: Alec Guinness, Religion and Belief, Charles Dickens, Superman (fictional character), Star Wars (movie)
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Frank Oz ready to return to Yoda for ‘Star Wars’ spinoff movie
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIf there's a place for Yoda in the upcoming “Star Wars” movies, Frank Oz is game to return to give ...... -
‘Star Wars’: Frank Oz on Stuart Freeborn, the legend behind Yoda
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesJedi Master Yoda is one of the most famous and iconic of the hundreds of characters in the “Star Wars” ...... -
‘Star Wars’: Stuart Freeborn, the makeup artist behind Yoda, dies
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesLegendary Hollywood makeup man Stuart Freeborn, who created some of the most memorable characters ever in science fiction including Yoda ...... -
The Rose Parade grows up
It's just a parade, after all, a once-a-year parade, so in the grand scheme of things, the Tournament of Roses Parade doesn't matter — until it does. And it does. There's a paradox at the core of Pasadena's pretty street party. What began in...
Tags: Shirley Temple, Mardi Gras, Richard Nixon, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Parties and Movements
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Man About Town: Our view of the cosmos from an L.A. hilltop
Do I turn you on to cool stuff or what? Last week, a great shave. This week, the cosmos. There isn't really anyplace I won't take you. OK, I won't take you to Chuck E. Cheese's — that'd just be cruel, pepperoni in the very corpuscles of the place....
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, Woody Allen, Los Angeles International Airport, CEC Entertainment, Inc.
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Sumner Redstone donates $10 million to USC Cinematic Arts
Billionaire Sumner Redstone has donated $10 million to the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The gift will be earmarked to help further the media production education programs at the school, including a state-of-the-art production facility. Redstone is...
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Sumner Redstone, Autism Speaks, Global Expansion
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From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'
Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, Bars and Clubs, Music Industry, Dave Brubeck
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