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Gil Cates: the Wizard of Oscars
Seven years ago, I was asked to cover the Academy Awards from backstage. To get the necessary credentials, I had to be personally vetted by producer Gil Cates. As I made my way along the shiny floor of the Oscar production offices, I was prepared for Oz,...Tags: Concerts, Entertainment, Jon Stewart, Eddie Murphy, Television
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The Albert Heschong family home in Encino goes on the market
A home owned by the family of the late Albert Heschong, the Emmy-winning production designer for television, film and theater who headed the art department at CBS for more than two decades, is for sale in Encino at $1.15 million.
Heschong designed and...Tags: Gunsmoke (tv program), Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Family, Playhouse 90 (tv program)
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Hot Property: Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds buy Los Feliz house for $2.9 million
It seems as though actress Scarlett Johansson had no sooner sold her old place in the Hollywood Hills than she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, closed on a house in Los Feliz for $2.9 million.
Built in the late '60s, the restored Buff & Hensman-...Tags: Entertainment, CSI: New York (tv program), The Proposal (movie), Iron Man 2 (movie), Scarlett Johansson
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PASSINGS: Charles Jarrott, Frank Chirkinian, Edward Stephenson, Mikhail Simonov, Arnost Lustig
Charles Jarrott
Directed TV and film, including 'Mary, Queen of Scots'
Charles Jarrott, 83, a British film and TV director best known for the Hal Wallis productions "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Mary, Queen of Scots," died Friday at the Motion...Tags: Entertainment, Andy Williams, Prostate Cancer, Arts, Golf
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Dude ranches: Roping, riding and karaoke
Special to the Los Angeles TimesNearly two decades have passed since tough-as- nails trail boss Curly Washburn hurled insults at the three "City Slickers" who invaded his turf, a Colorado cattle ranch, in search of a Wild West adventure. The 1991 movie, which earned Jack Palance a...Tags: Livestock Farming, All Inclusive Vacations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs
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'Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents' by Tom Kemper
![Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed since the dawn of 19th century mass entertainment, they are a nearly perfect metaphor for a late-blooming capitalist economy. They don't make anything except spit and hot air. Or, as author Tom Kemper writes, giving it an academic polish, "agents serve in the commercial fabrication of individuality," selling "personality [as] a commodity" including, especially, their own commission-hungry personalities.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-12/51249799-23155918-187104.gif "Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed since the dawn of 19th century mass entertainment, they are a nearly perfect metaphor for a late-blooming capitalist economy. They don't make anything except spit and hot air. Or, as author Tom Kemper writes, giving it an academic polish, \"agents serve in the commercial fabrication of individuality,\" selling \"personality [as] a commodity\" including, especially, their own commission-hungry personalities.")
Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed...Tags: Joseph Cotten, Entertainment, History, Sam Jaffe, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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PASSINGS: Byron Palmer, Dr. John Miller Hyson Jr.
Byron Palmer
Broadway, TV actor
Byron Palmer, 89, an actor and singer who broke through in the late 1940s in the hit Broadway musical "Where's Charley?" and later co-starred on the TV show "This Is Your Music," died of natural causes Wednesday at...Tags: Ray Bolger, Hospitals and Clinics, History, Entertainment, Minority Groups
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Louis L'Amour's West: Myth Was Just a Lie
Driving south across Nevada on Highway 95, through the steely afternoon distances, you get the sense that you are in a country where nobody will cut you any slack at all. You are in a version of the American West where you are on your own; the local motto...Tags: John Wayne, Livestock Farming, Road Transportation, Depression, Cancer
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Alan Arkin, Preston Sturges, Taxi Driver (movie), Tommy Lee Jones, Chinatown (movie)
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PIX11 Yule Log to Air on Christmas Day -- and Watch Out For Other WPIX Holiday Traditions
It wouldn't be a holiday in New York without the PIX11 Yule Log! The Yule Log, the famous film loop of a burning log in a hearth, has warmed the hearts of` viewers since it debuted on PIX in 1966. To celebrate the fabled fire stick's 46th anniversary,...Tags: Kelly Rutherford, Chace Crawford, Michael Trevino, Paul Wesley, Harry Connick Jr.
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Oscars Aim For Surprises To Spice Up Show
ReutersAfter the curtain rises on Sunday's Oscars, producers hope a few surprise winners and heartfelt acceptance speeches will spice up the program in which silent movie "The Artist" is widely seen as the choice for best movie. The world's top film honors...Tags: Drama (genre), Concerts, Grammy Awards, Entertainment, Hugo (movie)
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Billy and Oscar, together again: Crystal hosts Academy Awards
Zap2ItNo introduction is necessary: Billy Crystal and Oscar already know each other quite well. The actor-filmmaker-comedian has hosted the Academy Awards eight times, and he's now on deck for his ninth. He'll preside over the movie industry's 84th annual...Tags: Concerts, Bob Hope, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Eddie Murphy
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