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How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticThe 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 about...Tags: Cher, Julia Roberts, Vera Wang, Gwyneth Paltrow, Television Industry
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City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block
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Los Angeles' Hollywood legacy is an auction house dream
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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Hollywood memorabilia on the block
FrameworkNorma 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... -
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: Irving Thalberg, Suicide, Columbia University, Cinema Industry, Entertainment
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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: Artists, Artists, Pulp Fiction (movie), David Koma, Miley Cyrus
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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: Property, Satellite and Cable Service, Real Estate Buyers, Hugh Hefner, Homes
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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: Property, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Harold Lloyd, Robin Hood, Homes
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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...... -
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... -
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: Irving Berlin, Road Transportation, Property, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Real Estate Buyers
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Automotive Equipment, Death, Vehicles
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