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David Fincher, Cuba's female filmmakers among weekend highlights
Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...
Tags: Paul Newman, Entertainment, Looper (movie), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Sam Peckinpah
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Would modern L.A. voters elect a 'colorful' mayor?
In the midst of this campaign for a new mayor for Los Angeles, I spent a bit of time writing about the old ones, the characters, the bloviators and crooks, the puritanical and the amorous. And readers loved them. But truthfully, now, would we really...
Tags: Johnny Carson, George Burns, Local Elections, Politics, Elections
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...
Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francois Truffaut, Newspaper and Magazine, Human Interest, Fiction
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Ray Bradbury: Author's roots at L.A. high school celebrated
L.A. NOWRay Bradbury was being remembered Wednesday at his alma mater, Los Angeles High School. Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles High more than 70 years ago, but a plaque honoring him still hangs at the entrance to the school library, which...... -
Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent
Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79.
For two decades, Mengers was one of...Tags: Sidney Lumet, Jack Benny, Barbra Streisand, Sherry Lansing, Cybill Shepherd
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Sue Mengers, powerhouse Hollywood agent, dies at 79
Company TownSue Mengers, a veteran talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. At the time of...... -
Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children
Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95.
Ruben, who devoted much of...Tags: Jim Nabors, Stockard Channing, Social Issues, Entertainment, Television
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Sept. 15, 1941
The Daily MirrorSept. 15, 1941: Gracie Allen, pioneer. Typical of Miss Allen's resolute spirit is the campaign which she launched, following curtailment of Japanese silk imports, to persuade every Hollywood woman to buy a mulberry tree and a silk worm, Jimmie Fidler... -
A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist
The Daily MirrorNov. 7, 1944: Gracie Allen performs her new work, âConcerto for Index Finger.â Some of Charles Laughtonâs recordings of the Bible are too hot to handle or at least they're too hot for Decca. Yes, you can find the record on EBay. At least the... -
Anne Roberts Nelson dies at 86; CBS television executive
Anne Roberts Nelson, a pioneering television executive with CBS who negotiated contracts for long-running hits such as "I Love Lucy" and "Gunsmoke," has died. She was 86. Nelson, who was hired in 1945 and was the longest-serving CBS employee, with 64...Tags: I Love Lucy (tv program), George Burns, Red Skelton, Family, Entertainment
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Tooting the Horn for `All-Girl' Band Leader, 101
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIndomitable saxophonist Peggy Gilbert got the beat back in the 1920s, when Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and the Kansas City Nighthawks were wowing Jazz Age dance crowds. She was still blowing a hot tenor sax in 1981 on Johnny...Tags: Jack Benny, Dining and Drinking, Trips and Vacations, Family, Marilyn Monroe
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Los Angeles Comedy Festival begins tonight
Funny doesn't discriminate.
At least, that's the philosophy that prompted Lawrin Goulston Salazar and her husband to launch the Los Angeles Comedy Festival last year. The "all-inclusive" biannual event is a sort of comedy smorgasbord featuring improv,...Tags: Family, Entertainment, Festive Events, Television, Education
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