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Classic Hollywood: Cemeteries of the stars
Steve Goldstein knows where all the famous bodies are buried.
By day, he's a businessman who owns a payroll service. But in his off hours, he's one of Hollywood's best-known grave hunters. Author of "LA's Graveside Companion: Where the V.I.P.s R.I.P" and...Tags: Physical Conditions, Halloween, Carroll O'Connor, Rudolph Valentino, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Princess Di's dresses
For more information, contact: Hollywood Legends Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8 Julien's Auctions Beverly Hills 9665 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 150 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (310) 836-1818 www.juliensauctions.comTags: Debbie Reynolds, Diana, Princess of Wales, Television, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn
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Glimpse of rich history at Warner Bros.
The most iconic images of Hollywood in the minds of people around the world aren't always that sign on the other side of the hill or Mann's Chinese Theatre. The rounded soundstage roofs of Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank are just as evocative an image....Tags: James Dean, Music, Movies, James Cagney, Al Jolson
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Hearst's Mount Vernon West
A big splash. That's what media mogul William Randolph Hearst made when he finished his Santa Monica beach house in 1931. Its gilded rooms and swimming pools impressed the neighbors, but Hearst had it built to impress the nation.
From the end of the...Tags: Harold Lloyd, Celebrities, Swimming, William Randolph Hearst, TV Guide
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Steady stream of PCH traffic, but miles of ocean too
Special to The TimesThis is a neighborhood people hurtle past at 60 miles an hour (though the posted speed is 45), where houses are built just a few yards from a major six-lane highway, yet residents can step out their back gates and walk barefoot to the local restaurant...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Harold Lloyd, Cary Grant, Mary Pickford, Road Transportation
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Beachfront NIMBYs
JOEL BRAND is chairman of Friends of 415 PCH.ALTHOUGH thousands of $400-a-night hotel rooms have sprung up along our coastline in the past decades, few if any new campgrounds, parks or other public facilities have been built to accommodate the other 98% of Californians who can't afford to pay five-...Tags: Northridge, Road Transportation, William Randolph Hearst, Lifestyle and Leisure, Travel
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Coy Watson Jr. dies at 96; one of nine silent-era sibling actors
![Coy Watson Jr., who was the eldest in a family of nine child actors and whose book "The Keystone Kid," recounted a silent-film career that began in 1913, has died. He was 96.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-03/45610096-16182149.jpg "Coy Watson Jr., who was the eldest in a family of nine child actors and whose book "The Keystone Kid,\" recounted a silent-film career that began in 1913, has died. He was 96.")
Coy Watson Jr., who was the eldest in a family of nine child actors and whose book "The Keystone Kid," recounted a silent-film career that began in 1913, has died. He was 96.
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Coy Watson Jr. obituary: The obituary...Tags: Summer Olympics, Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Gloria Swanson, ABC (tv network)
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'Joseph P. Kennedy Presents' by Cari Beauchamp
![In the introduction of Cari Beauchamp's crackling page-turner "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years," this top-flight film historian declares that the father of JFK "saw everything and everyone, from Gloria Swanson to Adolf Hitler, through a lens of dollars and cents." Beauchamp demonstrates again and again that, apart from his abiding love and concern for his nine children (and perhaps a few others, including Marion Davies), the bottom line was everything.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-03/45522195-12165611-20094.gif "In the introduction of Cari Beauchamp's crackling page-turner "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years,\" this top-flight film historian declares that the father of JFK \"saw everything and everyone, from Gloria Swanson to Adolf Hitler, through a lens of dollars and cents.\" Beauchamp demonstrates again and again that, apart from his abiding love and concern for his nine children (and perhaps a few others, including Marion Davies), the bottom line was everything.")
In the introduction of Cari Beauchamp's crackling page-turner "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years," this top-flight film historian declares that the father of JFK "saw everything and everyone, from Gloria Swanson to Adolf Hitler, through a...Tags: Joseph P. Kennedy, Movies, Gloria Swanson, Children, Family
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Old-World classics: Palm Springs, San Diego & Sierra Nevada boutique hotels
The Château du Sureau and Erna's Elderberry House restaurant nestle near the town of Oakhurst, a 30-minute drive from the south entrance of Yosemite National Park. It's God's country, all hay-colored Sierra foothills and thickets of stately pines in a...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Los Angeles Times, Television, William Randolph Hearst, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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'Hearst the Collector' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Snobbery and wealth, like love and marriage, don't always go together. The same holds for knowledge and money, as in "He's got more dollars than sense." At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the complex relationships among taste, affluence and...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Long Island, William Randolph Hearst, Antonio Canova, Sculpture
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Cradle Will Rock
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday December 8, 1999 "Those who cannot remember the past," philosopher George Santayana wrote, "are condemned to repeat it," and writer-director Tim Robbins has no intention of letting anyone forget. His smart and pleasingly ambitious...Tags: Bill Murray, Paul Giamatti, Rockefeller Center, Movies, Diego Rivera
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'The Cat's Meow'
Times Staff WriterOne of the enduring legends of Hollywood has it that William Randolph Hearst mistakenly shot producer, director and studio founder Thomas Ince aboard the newspaper tycoon's yacht when his intended target was Charlie Chaplin, whom he believed was having an...Tags: Movies, Celebrities, Edward Herrmann, William Randolph Hearst, Clara Bow
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