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The Ear: What Larry Wants
Stand-up comedians need someone to bounce their stuff off of. ItÂ’s usually a close friend, because you have to say whatÂ’s funny out loud to someone you trust before you perform in front of an audience. Any comic with a brain has an Ear or two he...Tags: Larry David, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Movies, Television
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Whitehouse takes Gonzales to the woodshed
Sheldon Whitehouse sounds like a character who would be played by Franklin Pangborn, the fussy second banana to W.C. Fields in The Bank Dick. Actually, Whitehouse is a freshman Democratic senator from Rhode Island who has been the breakout star of the...Tags: George W. Bush, Government, Politics, Justice System, White House
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Coming soon on EBay: A night at Xanadu
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor half a century, the beds at Hearst Castle have been empty. But now one can be yours for a night. And eight of your friends can join you to dine, swim in the Neptune Pool and toss off lines from "Citizen Kane" like, "I think it would be fun to run a...Tags: Book, William Randolph Hearst, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Death
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Whitley Heights
Times Staff WriterThe best time I've ever had in Los Angeles was the three months I lived in Whitley Heights. It was last summer. I had just moved from a town of 354 in New Mexico, and Los Angeles was daunting. Luckily, I had friends living on what locals call The Hill,...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Marlene Dietrich, William Faulkner, Building Material
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The Hottest Property
Times Staff Writer1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...Tags: Stock Broking, Hotels and Accommodations, David Geffen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted
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Bottoms Up
Down the hill from Whitley Heights, at the joint where Robert Mitchum and W.C. Fields used to knock 'em back, I sat on a sticky pleather barstool and confidently ordered the lowest-sounding drink I could think of: a Depth Charge. "We don't have that,...Tags: Robert Mitchum
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Mars in apogee
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRay Bradbury is the first Los Angeles writer many people read. He's also the first reasonably serious writer -- someone concerned with political and moral themes -- many encounter. His early science-fiction novels and story collections have drawn readers,...Tags: Book, Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, W.H. Auden, Science and Technology
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In Lompoc, a W.C. Fields trip for two
Times Staff WriterWe set off from the San Fernando Valley late one hazy Friday morning with only two notions about our destination: It was the flower seed capital of the nation, and the locals were drunk and dysfunctional. The first we learned in school, and the second...Tags: Gucci Group NV, Crime, Law and Justice, Eyewear, Martha Stewart, Painting
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History behind iron gates in Lafayette Square
Special to The TimesThe basics The community of 236 homes is bordered by Crenshaw, Venice, Washington and West boulevards. Although founded in 1913 by developer George Crenshaw, it is named after the French marquis who fought alongside Colonists in the American Revolution....Tags: Real Estate Agents, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Death, Family, Homes
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The Casting Crib
For the TimesI'm pawing through a wardrobe of matching caps and booties, jumpers and nightshirts to find outfits that will make my 2-month-old twin boys look more, well, infantile. This on the advice of their Hollywood manager, who counsels me to lie about their...Tags: ABC (tv network), Bewitched (tv program), Unions, Scrubs (tv program), Movies
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The saxophone, on a more serious note
Many of today's symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone, by contrast, wasn't invented until the mid-19th...Tags: Jazz (genre), Opera (genre), John Adams, Music Theater, University of California, Los Angeles
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Hollywood Chronicles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe screenwriter-narrator in Ray Bradbury's new novel, a murder mystery set in Hollywood in the '50s, refers to them affectionately as the loonies, the jerks, the idiots, the goons. They're the starry-eyed autograph hounds who loitered in front of the...Tags: Book, Crime, Law and Justice, Science and Technology, Movies, Teen-agers
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