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Authors in L.A. this week: Matty Simmons, Julie Andrews
Jacket CopyAuthors in L.A. this week: Matty Simmons with an 'Animal House' memoir, Julie Andrews and more... -
'Animal House' musical to bring toga party to Broadway
Culture Monster"National Lampoon's Animal House," the 1978 comedy that put toga parties in the mainstream, is coming to Broadway in a new musical stage version, with a score by the band the Barenaked Ladies.... -
Whitney Houston: Cocaine worsened heart problems, officials say
L.A. NOWSinger Whitney Houston's use of cocaine "exacerbated her heart condition" and played a role in her accidental drowning in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel suite, Los Angeles County Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey said. The long-awaited autopsy... -
Whitney Houston: Another Hollywood death linked to drugs
L.A. NOWAn autopsy confirmed what many had speculated since Whitney Houston’s death last month of the eve of the Grammy Awards: another high-profile Hollywood death that was linked to drug use. Houston’s death comes three years after Michael Jackson... -
Coachella 2012: Paris Hilton gets chummy with security
Pop & HissWho knew that Paris Hilton actually waited in security lines? One would imagine her being whisked in on a bejewelled golf cart through some back entrance, but there she was on Saturday, wearing a flowing rainbow-colored skirt and a halter top and joking... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Inside guy, Buck Henry
Buck Henry arguably made his showbiz debut at the age of 2, when his mother, the silent film star Ruth Taylor, took him to the Paramount lot to show him off. She denied then that she wanted him to go into movies. Sorry, Mom. Henry has become a polymath of...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), The Third Man (movie), Celebrities, Hemorrhaging, Jon Voight
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Alan Rubin dies at 68; Blues Brothers trumpeter
Trumpet player Alan Rubin was recruited to join the Blues Brothers after backing up John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the "Saturday Night Live" television skits that spawned the band in the late 1970s.
One of many gifted session musicians in the group,...Tags: Eric Clapton, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Paul Simon, Robert Goulet, Billy Joel
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James Nelson dies at 83; longtime L.A. Municipal Court judge
James Nelson, a longtime Los Angeles Municipal Court judge whose career included high-profile preliminary hearings involving Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, and Cathy Evelyn Smith, who was charged in the death of comic...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Defense, Human Interest
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Two Guys Lose Weight: The Bluto 'Animal House' diet
Los Angeles TimesThe following is a blog documenting two Los Angeles Times editors' attempts to lose weight. It all began on Jan. 10. Eat anything you want and lose weight? Although it sounds like something you might hear on a cheesy infomercial at 3 a.m., it is...Tags: Weight Loss, Health, Sylvester Stallone, Physical Conditions, Steaks
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Joyce Sloane dies at 80; beloved powerhouse of Second City improvisational theater in Chicago
Joyce Sloane, the beloved maternal powerhouse of the Second City improvisational theater in Chicago, and the woman who found and nurtured such comedy giants as John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley and Bill Murray, died of natural causes Thursday in...Tags: Nia Vardalos, Jeff Garlin, Defense, Chicago Tribune, Obituaries
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Solomon Burke dies; singer's voice was as big as his soul
Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B and pop vocalists, has died. He was in his early 70s.
Burke died early Sunday morning of...Tags: Radio Industry, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Jerry Wexler, Vocal Music (genre), Human Interest
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L.A. Times bestsellers and Chateau Marmont
Jacket CopyAlthough what's hip in Hollywood changes faster than you can say "paparazzi," there's one destination that's been consistently starlit since it opened in 1931: the Chateau Marmont hotel. That's why it makes it into the title of Lauren Weisberger's new.......
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