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Kate Winslet taking on Joan Crawford's Oscar-winning role in 'Mildred Pierce'
Gold DerbyA year after finally taking home the Oscar for "The Reader," Kate Winslet is ready to go back to work. The Hollywood Reporter says Winslet will be starring in a five-hour TV remake of the 1945 film "Mildred Pierce," which won Joan Crawford her only... -
Hedda Hopper, March 8, 1944
The Daily MirrorMarch 8, 1944: Hedda Hopper says, "How would you like to see Joan Crawford play 'Nurse Kenny?' She wants to do it badly." I can’t help but wonder whether that slip was intentional. On the jump, divorce for Myrna Loy. The good news is more “Thin Man”... -
Private art collection may bring more than $150 million
Culture MonsterOne of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch more than...... -
Hollywood prop shop helps re-create the past
Company TownThe movie: an adaptation of Sara Gruen's 2006 bestselling novel "Water for Elephants," about a veterinary student who quits his studies to join a traveling circus. The scene: a group of students, circa 1931, on the campus of Cornell University....... -
USC to house works of architectural 'unsung hero'
L.A. NOWTo the cognoscenti, Edward H. Fickett was the award-winning architect behind the Port of Los Angeles, La Costa Resort & Spa, Edwards Air Force Base and tens of thousands of airy, affordable tract homes throughout Southern California. To Better Homes...... -
Theater review: ‘Streep Tease’ at Bang Comedy Theater
Culture MonsterOne doesn’t typically associate Meryl Streep with high camp. Unlike stars such as Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, larger-than-life personalities whose accents are so readily imitated, Streep’s chameleon-like quality and facility... -
'16 and Pregnant': Kailyn
Show TrackerFor a minute during Tuesday’s season finale of “16 and Pregnant,” I questioned whether I was really watching “The Twilight Zone.” In the episode, we’re introduced to Kailyn of Pennsylvania. And it was clear right away... -
Hot Property: Pickfair is for sale for $60 million
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThere are celebrities so well-known that they need to use only one name. The housing equivalent is Pickfair, the Beverly Hills Georgian manor whose name instantly summons images of old Hollywood and the days of glamour and opulence. Pickfair has been...Tags: Personal Service, Pia Zadora, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles Lakers
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Marilyn's Secret Tapes
Times Staff WriterIt remains one of Hollywood's most compelling, and unforgettable, mysteries. On Aug. 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. The 36-year-old movie star was naked and facedown on her bed. An autopsy conducted...Tags: Suicide, Lawyers, Arthur Miller, Bacon, James Joyce
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Thong politics
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, "Underwear," begins, "I didn't get much sleep last night thinking about underwear." The recent statutes outlawing public display of undergarments passed by several Louisiana towns (and being considered in Georgia, New...Tags: Jean Harlow, Juvenile Delinquency, Georgia, Crime, Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union
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Charles Busch's 'The Third Story' at LaJolla Playhouse
Times Theater CriticLA JOLLA -- Imagine Joan Crawford's stately glamour, Susan Hayward's tough-broad shtick and Carol Burnett's parodic flair all rolled into the same male actor. Yes, the one and only Charles Busch is back on stage, starring in your garden-variety science-...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Charles Busch, Crime, Law and Justice, Mary Pickford, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Los Angeles Fashion Week: beach wear to Hollywood glamour
AS THE lights dim on the final Los Angeles Fashion Week co-produced by Smashbox Studios and IMG, let's briefly revisit what may be the lasting legacy, as culled from the reviews, critiques, observations and rants the Image staff has been posting to our...Tags: Greta Garbo, West Hollywood, Lauren Conrad, Robert Francis, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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