Animal trainer Bob Dunn gets a kiss from a chimp on a movie set in 1998. A legend in the Hollywood animal world, Dunn closed his Sylmar training facility this year. (Irfan Khan / LAT)
Tara, a capuchin monkey who appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean, poses with Frazier Park animal trainer Steve Earl Martin. By around 7 or 8, they start changing, he says about chimpanzee actors. Thats just the way they are. (Spencer Weiner / LAT)
Villa Margherita in Laglio is one of George Clooneys hideaways in an Italian playground for the elite. (Matteo Bazzi / EPA)
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Ryan Willbarger, left, and Anthony Sardena unload the big fish. (Axel Koester / For The Times)
