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Armed Forces Radio Service entertained during World War II
During World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Service kept the troops entertained with the "Command Performance" and "Mail Call" radio shows. These musical-variety broadcasts were produced for American men and women serving in the war and were only heard by...Tags: Jack Benny, Armed Forces, Bing Crosby, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable
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Beverly Hills Hotel marks 100 years as stars' discreet retreat
When he stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the famously reclusive Howard Hughes would have roast beef sandwiches left for him in a crook of a tree, go on 2 a.m. treasure hunts for freshly baked pineapple upside-down cakes that were hidden on the grounds,...
Tags: Architecture, David Lynch, James Stewart, Howard Hughes, Faye Dunaway
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Frederica Sagor Maas dies at 111; silent film screenwriter
One of the last links to the silent film era, Frederica Sagor Maas wrote the script for 1925's "The Plastic Age," which launched actress Clara Bow. But she watched in horror as her serious treatment on women and work was turned into a frivolous 1947...Tags: Clara Bow, NPR, Betty Grable, Suicide, Louis B. Mayer
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Red carpet fashion statements
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticWith a lifetime of red carpet misses ranging from uncomfortably busty Guinevere gowns to something reminiscent of Grandma's doily tablecloth, Disney princess Miley Cyrus hasn't exactly been fashion It Girl material. Until now. The sleek and chic...Tags: Miley Cyrus, Emma Stone, Gucci Group NV, Edith Piaf, Awards and Prizes
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 10, 1941
The Daily MirrorApril 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show is like,” he says, never...... -
'P.S.: Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening' by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel, who died last month at the age of 96, was America's most popular oral historian.
Though never a "writer" of the first rank, he nevertheless was a unique contributor to American letters and a vital link to the current of idealistic...Tags: Edward Hopper, Lillian Hellman, Death, St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), University of Chicago
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A Santa Monica beach house once owned by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. is listed at $7.9 million
The former beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has come on the market in Santa Monica at $7.9 million.
The neighborhood was known as the Gold Coast after Hollywood stars and industry giants built homes there in the 1920s. MGM head...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robin Hood, Personal Service, Harold Lloyd, Celebrities
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Actress/model Bridget Marquardt buys in Sherman Oaks
Actress and Playboy model Bridget Marquardt has become a first-time home buyer with the purchase of a contemporary Mediterranean in Sherman Oaks for $1,725,000.
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Update: This version has been updated to include the names of the...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Satellite and Cable Service, Condos and Houses, Celebrities
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Oscars have always welcomed the world
Gold DerbyThis year's Oscars numbered only one foreign-born winner -- Austria's Christoph Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") -- among the four acting champs. However, that does not mean the Oscars are guilty of any homegrown bias. After all, six of the 20 acting... -
Power play in a brash box
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"IS that the car alarm?" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just...Tags: Management Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Clubs and Associations, Death
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Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
Times Staff WriterJanet Leigh, the actress who turned the mundane act of getting clean in a shower into one of cinema's most enduring images of gore and horror, died Sunday with her family at her bedside. She was 77. The actress' husband, Robert Brandt, and her daughters,...Tags: Death, Thriller (genre), James Stewart, Anthony Perkins, Celebrities
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Steady stream of PCH traffic, but miles of ocean too
Special to The TimesThis is a neighborhood people hurtle past at 60 miles an hour (though the posted speed is 45), where houses are built just a few yards from a major six-lane highway, yet residents can step out their back gates and walk barefoot to the local restaurant...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Transportation, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Road Transportation, Marion Davies
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