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Yves Saint Laurent, 71; icon of French fashion design
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. The designer died...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Catherine Deneuve, Breach of Contract, Ralph Lauren, Insider Trading
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Joe Hyams dies at 85; former Hollywood columnist, bestselling author
Joe Hyams, a former Hollywood columnist and bestselling author of books ranging from biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean to a popular tome on Eastern philosophy, has died. He was 85.
Hyams, a longtime Los Angeles resident who moved to Penrose,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Newspaper and Magazine, Frank Sinatra, Entertainment, Academy Awards
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Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82; Sister of John F. Kennedy and Wife of Actor Peter Lawford
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSEE CORRECTION APPENDED Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of President John F. Kennedy whose wedding to actor Peter Lawford in the 1950s was one of the first marriages of politics and Hollywood and provided her brother with many of his closest...Tags: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, World War II (1939-1945), John F. Kennedy, Marriage, Family
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Noir splendor
Times Staff Writer"I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on $4 million." The mansion Philip Marlowe is about to enter at the beginning of Raymond Chandler's...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Tourism and Leisure, French Literature, Family, Entertainment
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What's new to do near you
Farewell, Bali. Hello, Laguna.
That's the new year's travel buzz. Luckily for Southern Californians, there are plenty of nearby options to entice. Within easy reach, from San Diego to Mammoth to Las Vegas, new faces in familiar places await.
Given the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, The Hershey Co., Dining and Drinking, Joan Rivers, Walt Disney
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The Fixer
Times Staff WriterWillis Edwards had been in some deep holes before, but nothing had prepared him for that moment, late in 1996, when he arrived at the Veterans Administration hospital in Westwood, 130 pounds left on his 6-foot-3 frame, suffering from AIDS. For most of...Tags: Racism, Dining and Drinking, Activism, Civil Rights, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Raymond Chandler captured the heartbeat of Los Angeles. A new collection shows his influence still resonates
If, as is often said, every city has at least one writer it can claim for a muse, Raymond Chandler must be Los Angeles'. To be sure, there are other candidates: John Fante and Nathanael West come immediately to mind, while from a later generation, Joan...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, University of California, Los Angeles, Fiction
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Bob Dylan (1992): Dylan Now
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBob Dylan stares idly at the paperback book that someone has brought aboard his custom tour bus, which is speeding through the snowy Wisconsin countryside in the midnight hour. He has just finished a concert in Madison and is on his way to South Bend,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Weather Reports, Weather, Paul Simon, John Jackson
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Divas que no cantan pero lo saben todo
Wikipedia, que va camino a convertirse en el gran diccionario universal, dice que "diva" es el "nombre que se le asigna a las cantantes de ópera". Pero se queda muy corto, porque si se hiciera una encuesta colectiva sobre divas de la ópera, la mayoría...Tags: Greta Garbo, Joan Collins, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman
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Barbara Walters -- on the mend in Manhattan
Liz Smith"Mr. Sinatra ... I am an Italian!" said the comedienne Kaye Ballard, currying favor way back when. "And I'm an American," Sinatra shot right back. (Funny, the things that turn up in old files.) OUR friend Cindy Adams of the Post settled it once and...Tags: Liz Smith, Irma Thomas, Arthur Miller, Entertainment, Pete Seeger
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Don't Let Peplum Ruffle Your Fashion Choice
The Hartford CourantQuick: when you see the phrase "Don peplums," do you think the second word should be capitalized because you assume it's a proper noun, as in Don Corleone? Do you, for example, think "peplum" is another word for baby food? Or do you read it as "pe-plum"...Tags: Fashion Trends, Nicole Kidman, Genetic Engineering, Lana Turner, Gene Tierney
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The vision of Vreeland
Decades before the devil wore Prada, Diana Vreeland sketched the job description.
During 35 years as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, then editor in chief at Vogue, Vreeland discovered Lauren Bacall, launched Twiggy, championed the bikini, blue jeans...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Documentary (genre), Prada
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