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Justin Bieber pays $6.5 million for Calabasas home
The price that first-time homeowner Justin Bieber paid for his new digs in Calabasas has wended its way into the public record: $6.5 million.
Set on 1.3 acres in a gated community, the 10,000-square-foot main house is described as "transitional French"...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Eddie Murphy, Staples Center, Die Hard (movie)
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'Chinatown' writer Robert Towne lists Westside estate
"Chinatown" writer Robert Towne has listed his estate on the Westside at $12.995 million.
Built in 1926 and designed for grand entertaining, the restored English country-style mansion and guesthouse have seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms and 10,000 square...Tags: Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson
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Charles Eastman dies at 79; playwright and screenwriter
Charles Eastman, a playwright and screenwriter whose credits included the 1970s films "The All-American Boy" and "Little Fauss and Big Halsy," has died. He was 79.
Eastman, the brother of the late "Five Easy Pieces" screenwriter Carole Eastman, died July...Tags: Robert Blake, Obituaries, Death, O. Henry, Bing Crosby
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'Wall-E,' 'Torino' win big for '08
The American Film Institute named its best films for 2008 on Sunday afternoon and the big winners were " Wall-E," the Disney/Pixar animated romantic comedy about a lovable robot, and "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's drama about a widowed bigot who faces...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Crimes, Education, The Shield (tv program), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie)
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"Mary Austin and the American West" by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson
Mary Austin and the American West Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson University of California Press: 324 pp., $29.95 Few writers of her period overcame more obstacles than Mary Austin. Stuck in a disappointing marriage, Austin (1868-1934) spent the...Tags: Culture, Lincoln Steffens, Death, Willa Cather, Jane Austen
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Elmore Leonard to receive lifetime achievement award from PEN USA
Jacket CopyElmore Leonard will receive PEN USA's lifetime achievement award at a December ceremony, the organization announced today. Leonard is the author of 43 novels; his most recent, "Road Dogs," was an L.A. Times bestseller. His fiction -- with swift prose........ -
Peter Biskind on Warren Beatty: Was his theme song 'You're So Vain' or 'Just a Gigolo'?
The Big PictureOf all the many spellbindingly jaw-droppingly dishy anecdotes in Peter Biskind's new Warren Beatty biography, "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America," I was found myself especially astounded--in a "what would a therapist make of this" kind of way--by... -
Writers work picket lines as TV shows shut down
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn an often spirited display of protest playing out on both sides of the country, more than 1,000 screenwriters -- representing "Lost," "The Young and the Restless," "Chinatown" and everything in between -- hoisted picket signs and chanted labor songs...Tags: Hannah Montana (tv program), Steve Carell, Social Sciences, Wages and Pensions, USA Network (tv network)
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Sydney Pollack, 73; Oscar-winning director and producer
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...Tags: Sidney Poitier, Playhouse 90 (tv program), Literature, Woody Allen, FBI
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Former gambler now in the chips
Special to The TimesScriptland is a new weekly feature on the work and professional lives of screenwriters. * There are few bets with longer odds than making a living as a screenwriter. And then there's Allan Loeb. A compulsive gambler since age 10, he's currently riding...Tags: Halle Berry, Lost (tv program), FX Networks, LLC, Tourism and Leisure, William Goldman
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Esotouric tours explores L.A.'s dark side
Times Staff WriterIt was on a bus tour of 100-year-old ghost stories that two L.A. history freaks hit a speed bump on their journey into the city's most obscure corners. "The problem with that tour," says Richard Schave, one of the movers behind a new tour series called...Tags: Crimes, Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Charles Bukowski, Travel
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L.A.: Life that art can't imitate
So Reggie the alligator already has escaped once from his cell at the Los Angeles Zoo. Mark my words: No prison will hold him. He will escape again and steal a Ferrari Enzo. This is what makes writing wild fiction about Los Angeles so hard. L.A. just...Tags: Crimes, Death, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Natural Resources, Michael Mann
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