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For Palm Springs man, grief and anger over an end-of-life decision

Steve Lopez

On the evening of July 2, Bill Bentinck, 87, was led from his Palm Springs home in handcuffs, in mourning and in shock.

The body of his wife of 25 years, Lynda, was still in the house, but there was no time to grieve. After telling police...

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Los Angeles' Hollywood legacy is an auction house dream

Nita Lelyveld, Los Angeles Times

Norma Shearer's silk sheets sat for years in a Los Angeles garage, with no one to admire the embroidered monogram: NST, for Norma Shearer Thalberg.

The starlet's Louis Vuitton steamer trunks waited in vain to voyage. One was dedicated solely to...

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The books behind the new films at the Library of Congress [Video]

Carolyn Kellogg

The Library of Congress announced the names of

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Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

Susan King, Los Angeles Times

As far back as Louis Lumière's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.¶There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"...

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How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades

Booth Moore

The Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as...

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Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president

Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95.

In a writing career that spanned more than...

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block

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Slow down, it's Maine

Kari Howard, Los Angeles Times

BELFAST, Maine — The first sign says, "Slow." Then, about 50 feet down this back road in mid-coast Maine, there's a second sign. It says, "Slower."

I ease up on the pedal. That about sums up the rhythm of life in this part of Maine,...

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Classic Hollywood: Dean Martin does TV his way

Susan King, Los Angeles Times

Dean Martin didn't have any interest in doing a weekly musical-variety series when NBC approached him in 1965.

"In those days you were either a movie star or a TV star," said his daughter Deana Martin, who is also a singer. "He came home one...

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Classic Hollywood: Rare films on display at Cinecon 46

Susan King, Los Angeles Times

The Cinecon Classic Film Festival is not for movie softies. It's for hard-core film buffs and historians who don't want to see the usual vintage fare that pops up on Turner Classic Movies or at revival theaters. So if you're looking to see "Casablanca,"...

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Hal Kanter dies at 92; Emmy-winning comedy writer, director

Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

Hal Kanter, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, and a director and producer whose career included writing for Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, directing Elvis Presley and creating a landmark 1960s TV series starring Diahann Carroll, has died. He was 92.
...

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Farley Granger dies at 85; handsome leading man best known for roles in Hitchcock films

Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

Farley Granger, a handsome young leading man during Hollywood's post-World War II era who was best known for his starring roles in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers "...

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Marje Everett dies at 90; legendary figure in horse racing

Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times

Marje Everett, a legendary and controversial figure in the sport of horse racing for more than four decades and the chief executive of the Hollywood Park racetrack for six years, has died. She was 90.

Everett's longtime associate, Dorothy Carter,...

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Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'

Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has...

Sports

Dodger Stadium welcomes mountains of dirt for AMA Supercross Series

Jim Peltz

Dave Prater and his crew began systematically killing the grass at Dodger Stadium this week, and no one from the Dodgers protested.

Prater did so by spreading 5,000 cubic yards of dirt — about 500 dump-truck loads equal to about 1.5 million...

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Patt Morrison Asks: Robert Reich, Pre-Occupied

Patt Morrison

Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now...

Kim Novak says she's bipolar, regrets leaving Hollywood

Rebecca Keegan

Actress Kim Novak told an audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival Friday that she has bipolar disorder, and sometimes regrets her decision to leave Hollywood in the late 1960s at the height of her fame.

Oscar voters: Meet the academy's youngest members

Julie Makinen

Academy Awards: A recent L.A. Times study of the academy found that the median age of voting members is 62, and few members are too young to legally buy a beer. Among the youngest are 17-year-old Saoirse Ronan, who scored a supporting actress nod for her turn

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