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'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap: To Sur, with love
Show TrackerI packed your nylons for you. Let’s just leave that alone for a second. This season, I have been complaining ceaselessly about two things: 1) Every episode of RHOBH, and I mean EVERY, has been a fabulous party, jaunt, or repast, and 2) at these... -
Writer Yiyun Li named MacArthur "genius" Fellow
Jacket CopyAuthor Yiyun Li is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. Li, who lives in northern California and is an assistant professor at UC Davis, was giddy when The Times reached her by phone. What will the fellowship mean...... -
PBS' KOCE to broadcast landmark 'An American Family'
Show TrackerMilestone reality series An American Family to air on PBS SoCal... -
Looking at the Louds: A video supplement to 'Cinema Verite' and 'An American Family'
Show TrackerOn Saturday night, HBO will premiere "Cinema Verite," its TV movie about the 1973 PBS documentary "An American Family." That 12-hour series, which I review here, has been called the first reality show, though it resembles what we call reality...... -
Set Pieces: A slice of 1970s Santa Barbara in HBO's 'Cinema Verite'
L.A. at HomeFilmed 40 years ago in Santa Barbara, the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family" was a blueprint for what is now known as reality TV. The 12-part PBS program about Pat and Bill Loud and their five teenagers was an indelible...... -
The Loud Family, Seven Years After TV Series
The Daily MirrorJan. 6, 1980: Years before there was MTVâs âThe Real Worldâ (or MTV, for that matter), there was Craig Gilbertâs âAn American Family,â the story of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, which aired on PBS in 12 one-hour episodes...... -
Book review: 'First Family' by Joseph J. Ellis
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFirst Family Abigail & John Adams Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf: 304 pp., $27.95 John and Abigail Adams are the most well-known, most-written-about couple in America's Revolutionary generation. Why? Because they left such a well-constructed paper...Tags: Human Interest, Martha Washington, Family, Thomas Jefferson, Marriage
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Thomas Dekker to play Lance Loud, the original reality TV kid
Show TrackerThomas Dekker ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "A Nightmare on Elm Street") has signed on to HBO Films' "Cinema Verite," a behind-the-scenes look at the 1973 documentary "An American Family," considered to be the first reality show. Dekker, who... -
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Seventh annual West Hollywood Book Fair More than 400 authors will be present for a wide range of panel discussions, signings and readings, in addition to three live performance stages, a children's area and exhibitor booths. www....Tags: Children, Fiction, Chelsea Handler, Science, Candace Bushnell
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56 Up: The Latest Installment in a Long-Running Documentary Series Plays at Real Art Ways
56 Up At Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, realartways.org Time does a number on us. Skin wrinkles. Faces fill out. Chins multiply. Hairlines recede. Teeth yellow (or fall out). Bellies expand. Shapes shift, settle or vanish. That's just...
Tags: Michael Apted, Human Interest, Netflix Inc., PBS (tv network), England
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EXCLUSIVE: Diane Laneâs BEST shot at an Oscar? Pat Loud
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelDiane Lane has earned a few whispers that she might be “this year's Sandra Bullock,” thanks to her plucky turn as horse owner Penny Chenery in the new Disney film, “Secretariat,” opening Oct. 8. The film shares some ingredients... -
'Cinema Verite' premiere: Diane Lane, James Gandolfini go back to the '70s for HBO
Ministry of GossipDiane Lane and James Gandolfini appear at HBO's 'Cinema Verite' premiere...
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