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Sidney Laverents dies at 100; amateur filmmaker celebrated for his humor, technical skill
Sidney N. Laverents, an award-winning amateur filmmaker whose technically impressive and infectiously humorous 1970 musical short film "Multiple SIDosis" earned a spot in the National Film Registry, has died. He was 100. Laverents, a Depression-era...Tags: Health, U.S. Army, Entertainment, Bars and Clubs, Cinema Industry
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So you want to be a sommelier?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMassage therapists, bellmen and valets aren't the people you'd expect to sit through a rigorous 10-month wine course. But in Southern California, the race is on to gain certification as a sommelier and get a foot in the door of one of today's hottest...Tags: Arts and Culture, Bars and Clubs, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Bonding: $400 a bottle
Special to The TimesConsider it more than a coincidence. Two identical silver Mercedes SL 55 AMGs sit side by side in the Zen-inspired courtyard of Jefery Levy's glass and steel 1960s house in Laurel Canyon. One belongs to Levy, a collector of rare wines, the other to...Tags: Stephen Dorff, Arts and Culture, Heidi Fleiss, Basketball, Eyewear
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Nouveau Napa
Times Staff WriterThere's Napa, the valley. And then there's Napa, the city. Napa, the valley, is the realm of chef Thomas Keller's French Laundry in Yountville and Francis Ford Coppola's Niebaum-Coppola winery in Rutherford, of the luxe Meadowood resort in St. Helena and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Bodies of Water, Ralph Lauren, Viniculture, Los Angeles International Airport
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'EO' Preview Wows Audience at Disneyland
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSinger Michael Jackson, film makers George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola and dozens of movie, television and music industry celebrities helped turn Disneyland into Hollywoodland for an afternoon at Saturday's preview of the park's new multimillion dollar...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Television, The Walt Disney Co., Amusement and Theme Parks
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Move is a real scream for Berwyn collectibles shop Horrorbles
You're alone in the far back corner of a basement on Roosevelt Road, the air choked with the dank smell of age. Above you, a Berwyn storefront. Around you, the cluttered office of its owner. What kind of maniac intentionally keeps his desk in the far back...
Tags: Autre Monde, Bela Lugosi, Dracula (movie, 1931), Wrigley Field, Gwyneth Paltrow
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Kerouac opus 'On the Road' hits just enough beats ★★★
An eternal fountain of adolescence, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" went through many permutations between its point of origin, 1948, and its point of notorious, divisive publication, 1957. The best description of it came from Kerouac himself, in a journal...
Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Arts and Culture, Kristen Stewart, Movies, Entertainment
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Ang Lee to direct FX pilot “Tyrant” — and other big-time directors who have gone to TV
Channel Guide MagazineNot many people expected Ang Lee to take home the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards last month for Life of Pi. He's defying expectations yet again with his follow-up project, a pilot for FX called Tyrant, scheduled to shoot this summer. Tyrant... -
Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'
From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...
Tags: Sergei Eisenstein, Cuba, Orson Welles, Movies, Entertainment
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A24 takes domestic rights to Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring': Emma Watson, Tessa Farmiga, Paris Hilton star in real-life drama
VarietyA24 has acquired domestic rights to Sofia Coppola's real-life theft drama "The Bling Ring," starring Emma Watson, and plans to release the heist drama in June. Movie centers of group of teens from an affluent neighborhood that robbed the homes of...Tags: Audrina Patridge, Paris Hilton, Leslie Mann, Fred Roos, Movies
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'Price Check': Consumer-themed indie is one to check out
There is a science to the way products are placed on supermarket shelves, and it is one that can stealthily influences our choices. What it is not is a likely subject matter for a spiky workplace comedy-drama mash-up. And yet it is just specific and...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Marlon Brando, Movies, Entertainment, The Godfather (movie)
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At Capitol Cinema: `Master' inspired by, not unmasking of Scientology
AP Movie CriticViewers hoping for a juicy expose of the super-secretive Church of Scientology in ‘‘The Master’’ might want to adjust their expectations just a tad. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has acknowledged that the cult leader of...Tags: There Will Be Blood (movie), Scientology, Religion and Belief, Movies, Radiohead (music group)
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