Cass Elliot

Here are your winners! Bob Gordon -  Mott the Hoople, “One of the Boys” - Doves, “Catch the Sun” - The Waterboys, “A Girl Called Johnny” - The Pretenders, “Mystery Achievement” - Ryan Adams, “Come...

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. For two decades, Mengers was one of...

Tickets for Aberdeen Community Theatre's first show of 2012 go on sale to the public on Monday. The theater is bringing in the touring production, “Sirens of the '60s,” which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. March 14-16 and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. March 17...

Ronald Reagan is coming to Newport Beach. Well, his statue is anyway. The idea is the brainchild of Newport Beach Councilman Keith Curry, a long-time Reagan admirer, and not just from afar. Curry was a member of the Reagan administration in the 1980s,...

GARRY'S MIXTAPE Semi-Precious Weapons – Magnetic Baby Jarrett's Mixtape a. Big Sur by The Thrills b. Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks c. Chritine's Tune by Flying Burrito Brothers d. Tell Her No by The Zombies e. Surf Wax America by Weezer...

Attention "Heroes" fans: Production on Season 3 is well underway, and four episodes are in the can. You may start snooping for spoilers….now! Just don't ask for any from Masi Oka, the 33-year-old who plays time-traveler Hiro Nakamura and stars opposite...

If all you want for Christmas is a home once owned by a celebrity, you're in luck. There are several on the market. One belongs to hip-hop star Kanye West. While planning their wedding, the rapper and his bride-to-be, fashion designer Alexis Phifer,...

Michelle Phillips remembers 1963 as a year of bone-chill and profound homesickness. The Long Beach native, then 19, had married John Phillips in late 1962 and the two had shuttled off to New York to seek fame with their folk group, the New Frontiersmen....

Watching footage of Janis Joplin at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, you can see why Mama Cass, sitting in the crowd, keeps shaking her head. There's Janis, decked out in full gold lamé and tiny mules, shaking and snarling her way through...

There's nothing uncommon about failed films, far from it, but "People I Know" is a rarity. Inept in an almost delicate way, this is no "Malibu's Most Wanted" but an ambitious, high-minded flop that wants to do good in the world, a failure with a pedigree,...

John Phillips, the singer-songwriter-arranger who led the Mamas and the Papas to the forefront of pop music in the mid-'60s and helped define the California sound and spirit, died Sunday. Phillips, who received a liver transplant in 1992, died of heart...

Friday November 1, 1996      "Beautiful Thing," which is two-thirds of a good film, is a tender coming-of-age love story set in London's Thamesmead Estates, which has bold, dramatic architecture that bespeaks of social progress but has the same lack of...