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    May 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Bob Iger's studio chief hunt: Why would anyone want the job?

    24 Frames
    Disney studio chief opening: Since Bob Iger fired studio chief Rich Ross, the media have tossed all sorts of prominent names into the hopper as potential successors. But who would want the job?...
    2. Jan 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Frederica Sagor Maas dies at 111; silent film screenwriter

    One of the last links to the silent film era, Frederica Sagor Maas wrote the script for 1925's &quot;The Plastic Age," which launched actress Clara Bow. But she watched in horror as her serious treatment on women and work was turned into a <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/31/opinion/la-oe-morrison-donald-david-anderson-20111231/2">frivolous 1947 musical, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim,"</a> starring Betty Grable.
    One of the last links to the silent film era, Frederica Sagor Maas wrote the script for 1925's "The Plastic Age," which launched actress Clara Bow. But she watched in horror as her serious treatment on women and work was turned into a frivolous 1947...

    Tags: NPR, Clara Bow, Suicide, Radio, Betty Grable

    3. May 26, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Baseball GMs and movie studio chiefs: Are they really doing the same job?

    The Big Picture
    Going back to the earliest days of the show business, people have had an abiding fascination with the moguls who ran movie studios, from Irving Thalberg — who provided the raw material for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Last Tycoon” &#...
    4. Jul 26, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Jay Roach on life before he was a star director: 'It's good to learn to be miserable'

    The Big Picture
    Hollywood has always been madly in love with its boy wonders. The mythology of show business is all about celebrating the wondrous tales of overnight stardom. Everyone knows the stories behind how Orson Welles made "Citizen Kane" when he was......
    5. Jan 9, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  5. Frederica Sagor Maas dies at 111: Screenwriter penned silent films for Clara Bow

    Tribune Media Services
    Frederica Sagor Maas, one of the last surviving screenwriters, if not the last, with credits dating back to Hollywood's silent era, died Thursday in La Mesa, Calif., of natural causes. She was 111. Maas contributed to the screenplays of 15 films from...

    Tags: John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Victor Fleming, Louise Brooks, Betty Grable

    6. Aug 11, 2011 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  6. It's hard to top Ingmar Bergman

    The other day, after I watched <b>Ingmar Bergman</b>'s &quot;Through a Glass Darkly," the 1961 best-foreign-film Oscar winner, I brooded over my list of best movie directors of all time. Bergman is No. 1 because he and I are Swedish (!) and because of his writing, his Swedish gloominess and his ability to catch a character's soul on camera. With "Darkly," in glorious black and white, we also get to see <b>Sven Nykvist</b>'s contribution to the Bergman oeuvre. If Bergman is best director, then Nykvist (Mr. Shadows and Light) is best cinematographer.
    The other day, after I watched Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly," the 1961 best-foreign-film Oscar winner, I brooded over my list of best movie directors of all time. Bergman is No. 1 because he and I are Swedish (!) and because of his writing,...

    Tags: Lou Brock, Greg Kinnear, Greg Norman, Rod Carew, Paul Waner

    7. Aug 25, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel

  7. Coppola, Wallach Godard and Brownlow to get honorary Oscars

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving Thalberg Award, legendary French filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard (“Breathless”), grizzled character actor Eli Wallach (“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”) and film historian Kevin Brownlow...
    8. Jul 25, 2010 |Story| Hartford Courant

  8. Pierce Brosnan's Malibu Mediterranean Listed At $3.9 Million

    A gated Mediterranean owned by actor Pierce Brosnan, who was the fifth James Bond in the long-running film series, has come on the market in Malibu at $3.9 million. Designed as an artist's retreat, the two-story beach house includes a separate space that...

    Tags: The Ghost Writer (movie), 24 (tv program), Celebrities, Movies, Robin Hood (movie, 2010)

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