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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: Crime (genre), Christie Hefner, Social Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, Marlborough
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'Everwood' Finale Offers Closure
![Leaving nary a dry eye in many a house, The WB's "Everwood" came to an end on Monday (June 5) night.](http://images.zap2it.com/20040427/gregorysmith_emilyvancamp_everwood_135_001.jpg "Leaving nary a dry eye in many a house, The WB's "Everwood\" came to an end on Monday (June 5) night.")
Zap2It.comLeaving nary a dry eye in many a house, The WB's "Everwood" came to an end on Monday (June 5) night. Last month, the programmers at the new CW made a choice: Making the netlet's first schedule, they determined that the network's identity would be...Tags: Norman Rockwell, Delia's Incorporated, Scott Wolf, Television, American Idol (tv program)
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Tolkien versus the future
'Want to forget terrorism, the economy and rumors of war? This year's installment of "Lord of the Rings" carries audiences to a world more beautiful and stirring than humdrum modern life. In book and film, J.R.R. Tolkien's wildly popular epic has...Tags: Science and Technology, Censorship, Monuments and Heritage Sites, PBS (tv network), Travel
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'Catwoman'
!["Catwoman" is as swift and light on its feet as its heroine, Halle Berry. Though stylish and full of technical razzle-dazzle, no special effect or cliffhanging stunt overshadows Berry in the role as a mousy, diffident office worker reincarnated as the sexy, glamorous superhuman Catwoman. Berry clearly has fun playing an action heroine, yet her part also requires her to integrate two radically different personalities. Catwoman is a staple of the Batman adventures, but this is the first time she's had a movie all her own.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-07/13526870.jpg ""Catwoman\" is as swift and light on its feet as its heroine, Halle Berry. Though stylish and full of technical razzle-dazzle, no special effect or cliffhanging stunt overshadows Berry in the role as a mousy, diffident office worker reincarnated as the sexy, glamorous superhuman Catwoman. Berry clearly has fun playing an action heroine, yet her part also requires her to integrate two radically different personalities. Catwoman is a staple of the Batman adventures, but this is the first time she's had a movie all her own.")
Times Staff Writer"Catwoman" is as swift and light on its feet as its heroine, Halle Berry. Though stylish and full of technical razzle-dazzle, no special effect or cliffhanging stunt overshadows Berry in the role as a mousy, diffident office worker reincarnated as the...Tags: Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Lambert Wilson, Movies, Celebrities and Bad Behavior
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'A Love Song for Bobby Long'
Times Staff WriterIn "A Love Song for Bobby Long," Scarlett Johansson plays Purslane Hominy Will, a high school dropout who returns to New Orleans after her musician mother's death to find a pair of highly literate alcoholics living in the house she thought she'd...Tags: Social Sciences, Health and Safety at School, Crossroads, Movies, John Travolta
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![In "A Love Song for Bobby Long," Scarlett Johansson plays Purslane Hominy Will, a high school dropout who returns to New Orleans after her musician mother's death to find a pair of highly literate alcoholics living in the house she thought she'd inherited. Eventually, it's revealed that Bobby Long (John Travolta), the elder and drunker of the two, was once a popular English professor at a big Southern university (either Duke or Auburn, if his sweatshirts are anything to go by) and that Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), his younger, marginally more sober sidekick, formerly his star pupil, is now his great white hope. (They have none, in other words.)](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-12/15633779 "In "A Love Song for Bobby Long,\" Scarlett Johansson plays Purslane Hominy Will, a high school dropout who returns to New Orleans after her musician mother's death to find a pair of highly literate alcoholics living in the house she thought she'd inherited. Eventually, it's revealed that Bobby Long (John Travolta), the elder and drunker of the two, was once a popular English professor at a big Southern university (either Duke or Auburn, if his sweatshirts are anything to go by) and that Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), his younger, marginally more sober sidekick, formerly his star pupil, is now his great white hope. (They have none, in other words.)")
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