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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s former beach home sells for $6.8 million
Update: The former Santa Monica beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has sold for $6,862,000.
In an area that became known as the Gold Coast after Hollywood stars and industry giants built homes there in the 1920s, the neighborhood...Tags: MGM Inc., Robin Hood (movie, 2010), Harold Lloyd, Celebrities, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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TCM festival salutes Olivia de Havilland, Gene Tierney, Clint Eastwood, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman and … Thelma Todd?
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIt starts Sunday with Basil Rathbone and ends Aug. 31 with Clint Eastwood. TCM unrolls another Summer of the Stars festival in August. Each day, the channel devotes a day to the films of one actor. Some are familiar: Steve McQueen on Tuesday, Ingrid... -
Hot Property: Hideway fit for a secret agent
A gated Mediterranean owned by actor Pierce Brosnan, who was the fifth James Bond in the long-running film series, has come on the market in Malibu at $3.9 million.
Designed as an artist's retreat, the two-story beach house includes a separate space that...Tags: 24 (tv program), Movies, Pierce Brosnan, Irving Thalberg, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated
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Oscars have always welcomed the world
Gold DerbyThis year's Oscars numbered only one foreign-born winner -- Austria's Christoph Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") -- among the four acting champs. However, that does not mean the Oscars are guilty of any homegrown bias. After all, six of the 20 acting... -
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: Cary Grant, Labor Day, California, Harold Lloyd, Restaurants
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Power play in a brash box
!["IS that the car alarm?" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just now pause in the narrative -- the part where I run panicked through the night in my tighty whities and T-shirt -- to say that the Bentley's alarm system is the most piercing in automotive Christendom. I don't live that far from Forest Lawn, and I had visions of Sid Grauman and Irving Thalberg holding me while Norma Shearer punched me in the head.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-02/35229780-04173036.jpg ""IS that the car alarm?\" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just now pause in the narrative -- the part where I run panicked through the night in my tighty whities and T-shirt -- to say that the Bentley's alarm system is the most piercing in automotive Christendom. I don't live that far from Forest Lawn, and I had visions of Sid Grauman and Irving Thalberg holding me while Norma Shearer punched me in the head.")
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"IS that the car alarm?" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just...Tags: Los Angeles, Clubs and Associations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Car Guides and Reviews
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Movie Review: 'The Women'
In George Cukor's 1939 movie "The Women," the female characters twitter and gabble like a shaken cage full of canaries. In the 1956 MGM musical remake "The Opposite Sex," they declaim their feelings, or belt them out in song. Diane English's new remake...Tags: Candice Bergen, George Cukor, The Women (movie, 2008), Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher
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'P.S.: Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening' by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel, who died last month at the age of 96, was America's most popular oral historian.
Though never a "writer" of the first rank, he nevertheless was a unique contributor to American letters and a vital link to the current of idealistic...Tags: Clark Gable, Fiction, Chicago Hotels, Arts and Culture, Radio Industry
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Women in Film
I know, I know, this is really just a blatant rip-off of the WOMEN IN ART viral video. But it's still really good. Below are the women depicted in the video. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton,...Tags: Jessica Lange, Sophia Loren, Charlize Theron, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney
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Movie Review: The Women
In "The Women," suburban wife and mother Mary Haines comes to see the error of trying to be all things to all people. It's too bad that the film she's in didn't learn the same lesson and instead tries way too hard be everything for all women. "The Women"...Tags: George Cukor, Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, The Women (movie, 2008), Movies
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When 'The King' ruled Hollywood
Clark Gable:The Signature Collection
(Warner Home Video, $60 for the set; $15-$20 each)
Dancing LadyClark Gable was the "King of Hollywood" in the 1930s and 1940s. One of the screen's most enduring icons, he oozed sex appeal and charm, and he sported the...Tags: Clark Gable, Arts and Culture, Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, Dick van Dyke
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Los Angeles Times to Publish on May 21 "The Dream Machine" Special Sunday Calendar Section
LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2006 – The Los Angeles Times on May 21 will publish "The Dream Machine," a special Sunday Calendar section chronicling the history of Hollywood and looking at the challenges facing Southern California's leading industry. The...Tags: Cary Grant, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Movies
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