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James Ellroy details his search for love in Playboy
![It's the kind of house Hancock Park is famous for: unemphatic but impressive, with a perfect lawn, fresh coat of paint and ivy crawling up the walls. By Los Angeles standards, this is old-school cool. ¶ James Ellroy, all 6 feet 3 of him, is stomping across that manicured lawn, sporting a Hawaiian shirt and golfer's cap and pretending to walk a nonexistent dog. He mimics staring into the window, then simulates masturbating to what he sees inside. ¶ "Just like that," he offers. ¶ This was how the writer, then a gangly teenager living off inhalers and stolen booze and dreaming of literary greatness, spent his youth. Or at least that's the story he's telling today. ¶ Ellroy often behaves as if he's on camera -- offering off-color anecdotes, barking like a dog and generally acting out. But today he actually is: He's walking around this old-money neighborhood (and, the day after, through the city of El Monte) with a video crew from Playboy. ¶ They're shooting a documentary to accompany "The Hilliker Curse," a four-part serial he's writing for the magazine about his relationships with women. The first installment appears in the April issue, which has just hit the stands. The video, meanwhile, will appear at Playboy.com to launch a "Walkabout" series with important writers. ¶ The "L.A. Confidential" author later says he never masturbated on neighbors' lawns -- "That was just hyperbole!" -- but he was a dedicated peeper and self-described "perv" during his teenage years.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-03/45834321-27152037.gif "It's the kind of house Hancock Park is famous for: unemphatic but impressive, with a perfect lawn, fresh coat of paint and ivy crawling up the walls. By Los Angeles standards, this is old-school cool. ¶ James Ellroy, all 6 feet 3 of him, is stomping across that manicured lawn, sporting a Hawaiian shirt and golfer's cap and pretending to walk a nonexistent dog. He mimics staring into the window, then simulates masturbating to what he sees inside. ¶ "Just like that,\" he offers. ¶ This was how the writer, then a gangly teenager living off inhalers and stolen booze and dreaming of literary greatness, spent his youth. Or at least that's the story he's telling today. ¶ Ellroy often behaves as if he's on camera -- offering off-color anecdotes, barking like a dog and generally acting out. But today he actually is: He's walking around this old-money neighborhood (and, the day after, through the city of El Monte) with a video crew from Playboy. ¶ They're shooting a documentary to accompany \"The Hilliker Curse,\" a four-part serial he's writing for the magazine about his relationships with women. The first installment appears in the April issue, which has just hit the stands. The video, meanwhile, will appear at Playboy.com to launch a \"Walkabout\" series with important writers. ¶ The \"L.A. Confidential\" author later says he never masturbated on neighbors' lawns -- \"That was just hyperbole!\" -- but he was a dedicated peeper and self-described \"perv\" during his teenage years.")
It's the kind of house Hancock Park is famous for: unemphatic but impressive, with a perfect lawn, fresh coat of paint and ivy crawling up the walls. By Los Angeles standards, this is old-school cool. ¶ James Ellroy, all 6 feet 3 of him, is stomping...Tags: Marlborough, Crimes, Documentary (genre), Los Angeles, Curtis Hanson
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John Fante's great gift to Los Angeles
Cruelty, racism, poverty, lies, perversity and oversexed self-delusion: Could this be the stuff of the most lyrical love letter ever addressed to the City of Angels?
Yes, and it is "Ask the Dust," the 1939 novel by the late John Fante, who was born 100...Tags: Crimes, Los Angeles, Denver, San Fernando, Arts and Culture
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MacArthur Park through the ages in literature and cinema
MacArthur Park may be on the upswing these days, but it'll take a long time to wipe away its ghoulish reputation from film or the page. These mostly fictionalized accounts suggest some ugly surprises in MacArthur Park, and we're not talking about cakes...Tags: Will Smith, Drama (genre), Volcanoes, Sean Astin, Television
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At the Huntington, the synergy grows
Suzy Moser is on a roll. Resplendent in teal and black, she is schmoozing potential donors in the teahouse of the Chinese garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.
Moser, the assistant vice president for...Tags: New Hampshire, Arts, Gardens and Parks, South Pasadena, Tourism and Leisure
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He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAugust Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's...Tags: Corporate Crime, England, Health and Safety at School, Sports, Billy Collins
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BIRDS OF PARADISE
Chapter 1 By Steve Lopez Los Angeles Times Columnist Escaping the heat in a hotter clime In a glass house above Malibu, Charlie Bonner is getting set to split for Cabo when the phone rings. Charlie Bonner went to the closet and shoved his wife's...Tags: Corporate Crime, Politics, Arts and Culture, Companies and Corporations, Motorcycle Trial
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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, Los Angeles, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Travel
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Hoping to be the one
![When I walk into One Sunset, the giddy new "ultra-lounge" on the Strip, I can't help pointing out to one of my heat-seeking friends that this was once Barfly. And that right behind the maitre d's podium was a mile-high black-and-white photo of Beat writer Charles Bukowski's craggy mug. Different time, different mood. One Sunset is more dressed up and proper, someplace you could bring your rocker mom — or grandmother. She'd probably think the vibe is too innocent.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-07/30964647.jpg "When I walk into One Sunset, the giddy new "ultra-lounge\" on the Strip, I can't help pointing out to one of my heat-seeking friends that this was once Barfly. And that right behind the maitre d's podium was a mile-high black-and-white photo of Beat writer Charles Bukowski's craggy mug. Different time, different mood. One Sunset is more dressed up and proper, someplace you could bring your rocker mom — or grandmother. She'd probably think the vibe is too innocent.")
Times Staff WriterWhen I walk into One Sunset, the giddy new "ultra-lounge" on the Strip, I can't help pointing out to one of my heat-seeking friends that this was once Barfly. And that right behind the maitre d's podium was a mile-high black-and-white photo of Beat writer...Tags: Sandwiches, Meatpacking District, Tomatoes, New York, Dining and Drinking
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Twists and turns on road back to Charlie
MoorparkErnesto pulled onto Coldwater Canyon, leaving the San Fernando Valley behind. The Crown Victoria was built for freeway pursuits, not the constant doglegs of this shortcut to Beverly Hills. He was forced to concentrate to keep the car on the road. He...Tags: FBI
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Dillon Goes on a Bukowski Bender
![The storied history of alcoholics on film ranges from "The Lost Weekend" to "Arthur," from "Leaving Las Vegas" to "Shakes the Clown."](http://images.zap2it.com/20060306/mattdillon_sag06_135.jpg "The storied history of alcoholics on film ranges from "The Lost Weekend\" to \"Arthur,\" from \"Leaving Las Vegas\" to \"Shakes the Clown.\"")
Zap2It.comThe storied history of alcoholics on film ranges from "The Lost Weekend" to "Arthur," from "Leaving Las Vegas" to "Shakes the Clown." "There's all different types of drunks and I think Hank is a maintenance drinker," explains Matt Dillon, who plays...Tags: Los Angeles, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor
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'Factotum'
Times Staff WriterThe low-life serenade writing style of the rebellious Charles Bukowski is an acquired taste, but the good news about "Factotum" is that you don't need to acquire it in order to thoroughly enjoy this playfully bleak piece of work. That's because...Tags: Documentary (genre), Los Angeles, Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor
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Making modesty part of the Koreatown scene
Special to The TimesIn Koreatown, there are many ways to get a drink, most of them expensive. On a typical night, you might end up sipping a $12 soju cocktail or procuring a $100 bottle of Crown Royal for the table. Your outfit had better look expensive too. What you...Tags: American Legion, Alcoholic Beverages, Vince Vaughn, Nursing, Lifestyle and Leisure
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![The low-life serenade writing style of the rebellious Charles Bukowski is an acquired taste, but the good news about "Factotum" is that you don't need to acquire it in order to thoroughly enjoy this playfully bleak piece of work.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-08/24934954 "The low-life serenade writing style of the rebellious Charles Bukowski is an acquired taste, but the good news about "Factotum\" is that you don't need to acquire it in order to thoroughly enjoy this playfully bleak piece of work.")
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