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Beverly Hills building erected by Warner studios founder sold
An 85-year-old Beverly Hills building erected in the Golden Age of Hollywood by movie mogul Jack Warner has been sold for $11.75 million to a local investor. The two-story structure that curves along Little Santa Monica Boulevard downtown at North...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Realty, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Mary Pickford
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Tributes to Mary Pickford, Michel Legrand among week's highlights
It's a big weekend for fans of legendary screen star Mary Pickford and Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand ("Summer of '42"). Christine Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," Â will be talking about the new book and singing copies...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Spencer Tracy, Music Industry, Janusz Kaminski, Band of Outsiders
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Movie books go between the covers with Hollywood's elite
Are you a film buff who received a holiday gift certificate for books? Not to worry. Here's a post-Christmas guide to three books about legendary cinema stars, and a fourth about some of Hollywood's bit players. "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies":...
Tags: True Grit (movie), Martin Scorsese, Charlie Chaplin, William Wellman, Mary Pickford
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Ginger Rogers, Charlie Sheen, Building Material, Heroin, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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King Gillette Ranch in Malibu
-------------------- UPDATE: There have been developments at the King Gillette Ranch since our last visit. The park now offers a new interagency visitor center and two hours of free parking, in addition to its $7 paid parking lot. --------------------...
Tags: Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo, The Biggest Loser (tv program), Mary Pickford
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Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival
24 FramesThe Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon."... -
Movies: Dapper gents rule in 'J. Edgar,' 'The Artist' and other films
Los Angeles TimesClothes and carefully cultivated facial hair are helping to make the man — and the movie — in a big way at the multiplex this season. Consider the tuxedo-wearing, thinly mustachioed men of 1920s' Hollywood in "The Artist"; the dapper denizens...Tags: Alec Guinness, GQ, Espionage and Intelligence, John Le Carre, Fine Artists
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Movies: The '20s roaring again
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticCue the flappers, the fringe, the beads and the bobs. The Roaring '20s are back in fashion — on the runways and on-screen. It started in September at the spring 2012 fashion shows, with Ralph Lauren's "Great Gatsby" gowns, Tory Burch's...Tags: Alec Guinness, The Artist (movie), Artists, Entertainment Events, Movies
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'The Artist' is big winner at Academy Awards
The movie of the fewest words spoke the loudest at the Oscars this year.
On an evening suffused with nostalgia, "The Artist," a nearly wordless, black-and-white romance celebrating Hollywood's formative era, won five Academy Awards, including best...Tags: The Tree of Life (movie), The Iron Lady (movie), Robert Richardson, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Hotel Rwanda (movie)
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Wealthy home buyers demand bathrooms; lots of bathrooms
Here's another way the rich are different: They have more bathrooms.
Real estate brokers who cater to the moneyed say their clients typically want homes that have at least two bathrooms for every bedroom. And with spacious tubs, floor lamps, dressing...Tags: Lauren Beale, United States Census Bureau, Architecture, Mary Pickford, Tour Operations Industry
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Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film
24 Frames."I Vitelloni," a 1953 semi-autobiographical drama about five male friends living in a small Italian town, is considered one of the watershed moments in Fedrico Fellini's career. The film is screening Friday through Wednesday at the New Beverly Cinema... -
Swashbuckling good films from '30s, '40s: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick
24 Frames"The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Corsican Brothers": Who doesn't love a good swashbuckler, complete with flashing swords, romantic couples and all manner of derring-do? Hen's Tooth Video, which specializes in the hard to...
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