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Friday's TV Highlights: The ALMAs salute Latinos in the arts
Show TrackerEMCEES: George Lopez and Eva Longoria Parker host 'The 2009 ALMA Awards' at 8 p.m. on ABC. SERIES Guiding Light: This long, long, long-running soap opera exits the airwaves after 70-plus years on radio and television (2 p.m. CBS). Bump!...... -
President Predicts Budget Surplus!
The Daily MirrorIn his State of the Union Address, President Eisenhower predicts a $4-billion budget surplus ($28.7 billion USD 2008) Eisenhower’s State of the Union Address runs over three pages and I doubt many people will read the entire speech, but I’m posting it... -
Lucha VaVoom and Cirque Berzerk are L.A.'s theater of the odd
![Don't be fooled by her riding crop, her past career as a porn-film costumer or her penchant for punk rock and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Meyer">Russ Meyer</a> flicks. Take all that away, and Rita D'Albert is a nice Jewish girl from Flushing, Queens, who adores <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operettas and Carnaby Street fashion and gets mushy over Broadway show tunes.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-07/48089656-19191631.jpg "Don't be fooled by her riding crop, her past career as a porn-film costumer or her penchant for punk rock and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Meyer\">Russ Meyer</a> flicks. Take all that away, and Rita D'Albert is a nice Jewish girl from Flushing, Queens, who adores <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan\">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operettas and Carnaby Street fashion and gets mushy over Broadway show tunes.")
Don't be fooled by her riding crop, her past career as a porn-film costumer or her penchant for punk rock and Russ Meyer flicks. Take all that away, and Rita D'Albert is a nice Jewish girl from Flushing, Queens, who adores Gilbert and Sullivan operettas...Tags: Cirque du Soleil, Ohio, Fashion Shows, Circuses, Berkeley (Alameda, California)
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A book find from Roger Ebert
Jacket CopyFilm critic Roger Ebert used to be heard all the time; he was on TV as one of the original hosts of "At the Movies," showed up regularly at film festivals and taught at the University of Chicago. Opinionated, informed...... -
Found objects: Going gaga over Jason Mecier's 'junky' celebrity portraiture
Brand XThe intricately rendered celebrity portraits constructed by San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier intend not merely to capture the look of his subjects, but their true essence. He often achieves this by using items once owned by them in his mosaics. But... -
The kings of L.A. camp
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDO vintage neon signs and boarded-up movie palaces make your gut spasm with wistful delight? Do you flip for burlesque and have a soft spot for midget wrestlers? Have you had a birthday party at Medieval Times or cried your eyes out reading the earnest...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Los Angeles Times, Pork Chops, Comedy (genre), Dining and Drinking
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Anna Biller brings free sex back to a sex-free nation
Anna Biller's first feature-length film "Viva," an eerily authentic recreation of early 1970s soft-core sex comedies, opened Friday at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. But Biller has been making highly mannered, beautifully realized short movies...Tags: Celebrities, Science Fiction (genre), Sex, Cinema Industry, Sex Crimes
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Lana Clarkson's fade to black
WESLEY STRICK is a screenwriter whose credits include "Cape Fear" (1991) and "Return to Paradise" (1998). His first novel, "Out There in the Dark," was published last year.You have to wonder about Lana Clarkson. Yes, "Lana Clarkson" was her real name; she wasn't Frances Gumm or Norma Jeane Baker. And Lana was born right here in Southern California, not eastern Tennessee or northern Minnesota. So you have to wonder why &#...Tags: John Lennon, Weather Warnings, Murder, Weather, Roger Corman
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'Grindhouse' sparks a creepy stroll down memory lane
!["Grindhouse." The very name conjures up all kinds of memories of the gloriously lurid exploitation films of the '60s and '70s and fond nostalgia for the fading South Broadway movie palaces that booked them as double features.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-04/28846523.jpg ""Grindhouse.\" The very name conjures up all kinds of memories of the gloriously lurid exploitation films of the '60s and '70s and fond nostalgia for the fading South Broadway movie palaces that booked them as double features.")
Special to The Times"Grindhouse." The very name conjures up all kinds of memories of the gloriously lurid exploitation films of the '60s and '70s and fond nostalgia for the fading South Broadway movie palaces that booked them as double features. Although it was not really a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Paramount, Stranger Than Fiction, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), California
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Sex and this city ... er, Valley, actually
Times Staff WriterPORNOGRAPHY is as old as time. But Los Angeles is the place that turned smut into gold. Inside faceless office buildings on Ventura Boulevard and tract houses in Woodland Hills, Angelenos have spent the last two decades transforming an underground...Tags: Celebrities, Jenna Jameson, Ventura (Ventura, California), Social Issues, Woodland (Yolo, California)
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'Valley of the Dolls' and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'
Zap2It.comIn 1967, 20th Century Fox got serious about Jacqueline Susann's weepy bestseller "The Valley of the Dolls" and produced a serious-minded, unbearably bad adaptation. It's become a camp cult classic. Three years later, desperate to woo young viewers, the...Tags: Toy Industry, Patty Duke, Cults and Sects, Los Angeles, Sharon Tate
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'Night at the Golden Eagle'
Times Staff WriterA year or so ago, filmmaker Adam Rifkin met Donnie Montemarano and Vinny Argiro, lifelong pals from Brooklyn, and was so taken with their colorful personalities and stories he soon realized he had at last discovered the leads for his next film, "Night...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Health, James Caan, Los Angeles
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