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When movie costumes become fashion trends
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDeborah Nadoolman Landis has worked as a costume designer on more than 20 films over the last 40 years. Along the way, she has created several looks that have crossed into popular culture and become fashion trends. Here are a few anecdotes, in her own...Tags: John Belushi, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Stan Laurel
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Deborah Landis, ever the advocate for costume designers
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDesigning costumes so ingrained in popular culture that they still inspire Halloween disguises 30 years after they were created — Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket, Indiana Jones' signature outback slouch look and the unforgettable "College"...Tags: Museums, Financial Aid, Heart Attack, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Hobbies
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Weddings from a simpler time
It was 150 years after his patent went into effect, but John Landis Mason's glass jars with seal-tight lids experienced a renaissance in 2008 — although it wasn't for the use he'd originally intended. Instead of pickling vegetables or preserving...
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Before ‘Twilight,’ ‘Lost Boys’ made vampires fun
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comTwenty-five years ago, a summer release from a costume designer-turned-director was moving the needle on vampire movies, forever altering how ...... -
Shopping malls' greatest movie moments
Los Angeles TimesShopping centers have always been about more than shopping. Before the rise of Internet-based social interaction, malls were a workplace, gathering place and pop culture petri dish for the better part of two generations. That made them the perfect...Tags: Billy Bob Thornton, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey, Culture, Auction Service
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Chris Paul buys Avril Lavigne's Bel-Air mansion for $8.495 million
L.A. Clipper Chris Paul may be quick down the court, but he moves pretty fast when it comes to buying multimillion-dollar real estate too.
The All-Star bought and closed on the Bel-Air home of singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne for $8.495 million just a...Tags: Life (tv program), Swimming, J. Edgar (movie), Real Estate, Entertainment Events
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Producer Leslie Belzberg lists Bel-Air home
Producer Leslie Belzberg has listed her Bel-Air home for sale at $2.395 million.
The remodeled post-and-beam house, built in 1963, retains its midcentury vibe with walls of glass, oversized flagstone fireplaces and cork floors. The five-bedroom, four-... -
'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.... -
Bond girls, movie monsters, Cole Porter in TCM Classic Film Fest
24 FramesThe TCM Classic Film Festival announced its final lineup Wednesday, including last-minute additions such as a screening of the Cole Porter musical "High Society" (1956) poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, appearances by filmmakers Mel Brooks and... -
Simon Pegg riffs on 'Dawn of the Dead,' zombie consumers and popular culture
Jacket CopySimon Pegg can make fart jokes -- and talk about capitalist societies in decline. And zombies! All of which he does in these outtakes from our interview.... -
Theater review: 'Fifth of July' at the Lex Theatre
Culture MonsterDavid C. Nichols reviews the Production Company's revival of Lanford Wilson's 'Fifth of July' at the Lex Theatre... -
A performer who kept transcending boundaries
Pop Music CriticMichael Jackson was not of this world. He always seemed to defy gravity, as a dancer whose signature move was so incomprehensibly graceful that it earned the extraterrestrial title "the Moonwalk," a singer whose tenor was high but strong, a rhythmic...Tags: Health, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dining and Drinking, Disco (genre)
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