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Northern California woman accused of killing another husband
An El Dorado County woman once accused of killing her second husband was arrested this week on suspicion of murdering husband No. 3.
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An El Dorado County woman once accused of killing her second husband was arrested this week on suspicion of murdering husband No. 3.
Roman Polanski, a director who has had extensive personal experience with a justice system he and supporters believe wronged him, will make a movie about another exceptionally high-profile trial: the Dreyfus affair. Polanski will direct “D,” a political thrill
Obviously, "The Social Network" is ahead in the Oscar race for best adapted screenplay, given its front-runner status as best picture and the vaunted reputation of Aaron Sorkin as master wordsmith. However, upsets are always possible at these quirkly Hollywood
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'Ghost Writer's' real-life parallels haunt the movie and director Roman Polanski
As Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor describe it, there was no need for the cast of Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" to have long, philosophical discussions about the movie's creepy real-life parallels. It wasn't necessary, for example, to...
Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover) for Feb. 28, 2010
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a...
'Conspirata' by Robert Harris
As the second installment in British novelist Robert Harris' trilogy of cutthroat politics and intrigue during the late Roman Republic opens, Marcus Tullius Cicero is about to assume the consulship of Rome, the position of supreme...
The what-might-have-been genre
Mysteries and thrillers hinge on basic questions: whodunit, whydunit and the dreaded had-I-but-known. Then there's what-might-have-been, which is the domain of thrillers that recount alternate histories. Instead of fashioning chaos out of...
'The Godfather': A restoration offer they couldn't refuse
Fans who pick up the recently announced "The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration," due out from Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 23, are likely to see things in the 1972 Mafia saga and its two sequels they've never...
Roman Polanski???s attorneys may have helped provoke his arrest by complaining to an appellate court this summer that Los Angeles prosecutors had never made any real effort to arrest the filmmaker in his three decades as a fugitive, two sources ...
The arrest of Roman Polanski has become an international incident, with France and Poland demanding that the famed director be released on bail and questioning why he was taken into custody. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office wants Polanski ...
Kevin Robert Harris II, a 21-year-old black man, died on Sunday, Sept. 20, after he was shot in the 3300 block of West 11th Place in Inglewood, according to the Los Angeles County coroner. Harris, of Westchester, was sitting in ...
Roman Polanski is working on a film adaptation of the Tony-winning play "God of Carnage," said his wife, the actress Emmanuelle Seigner. The actress said in an interview with Elle magazine that Polanski is now involved in post-production on his ...
Roman Polanski is under house arrest at his Swiss chalet, but he still has managed to hold his own personal premiere for his new movie, "The Ghost." Polanski, who faces extradition to L.A. to face sentencing in a three-decade-old child-sex ...
In the video above, Kenneth Turan reviews Roman Polanski's new film "The Ghost Writer," starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. "The Ghost Writer" is based on a the novel of the same name by genre-jumping Robert Harris. Harris took on ...
L.A.'s Skyline to Get Gehry Touch
Architect Frank O. Gehry will design a 40- or 50-story skyscraper next to his iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as other elements of the $1.8-billion complex planned along Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, officials said...
Post-auction, an uproar in the Craftsman clan
It was the auction the Craftsman community couldn't stop talking about. In December, Sotheby's auction house put up a rare collection of furnishings and accessories from historic homes designed by the brothers Charles and Henry...
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