Leave It to Beaver (tv program)

Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver, the quintessential 1950s sitcom mom on "Leave It to Beaver," and later did a memorable send-up of her white-bread image playing the "jive-talking" passenger in the hit comedy "Airplane!," has died. She was 94....

Henry 'Butch' Stone Singer and sax player Henry "Butch" Stone, 96, a big-band singer and saxophonist who had a long association with Les Brown and his Band of Renown, died May 19 at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Woodland Hills, according to a friend,...

NEARLY 30 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock to proclaim the arrival of the 200-millionth American. But don't expect President Bush to do the same when the 300-millionth American is anointed...

It's been decades since movie studios had movie stars on contract. And you're as likely to stumble across movie filming on a downtown L.A. street as on the Universal Studios back lot these days. But the studios still have that special feel of a gated...

If David Arquette runs into trouble, he's not exactly lacking for people he can call. He's happily married to former "Friends" star Courteney Cox, with whom he has a daughter, Coco, 2. And then there's his passel of siblings, including Rosanna,...

Some residents say Riderwood begins on the north side of Ruxton Road, while others say that it lies north of Joppa Road and extends to the Beltway, and anything north of that is Lutherville. While Riderwood may not be as affluent as its neighbor to the...

-------------------- FOR THE RECORD Valley Glen — A map of Valley Glen in the Neighborly Advice feature in Sunday's Real Estate section incorrectly placed the community east of the 170 Freeway. It is west of the freeway. -------------------- Walk...

View Heights is a quintessential 1940s Los Angeles suburb of bungalows and small-scale Spanish-style homes that appear to be straight out of a Raymond Chandler novel. Perched atop hills east of upscale Ladera Heights and located between downtown Los...

Scouting locations that would become the setting for ABC's "Desperate Housewives," production designer Thomas A. Walsh at first turned to "those Spielberg-like communities" — Stevenson Ranch and Simi Valley — but they were all "a little too...

When the pressures of school and friends and sports become overwhelming, many adolescents have nowhere to turn. Family life is increasingly fragmented by divorce and workplace demands. The simple rituals that once provided structure and support are...

Q: "I am not feeling comfortable with the crowd my 13-year-old is hanging with. Why won't she listen to me?" A: When a parent doesn't like a teen's friends, it's natural for the teen to disregard the parent's opinion. In fact, our Family Project panel...

Everybody in La Jolla knew the Brodericks. Daniel T. Broderick III and his wife, Betty, seemed to have a classic society-page marriage. Dan was a celebrity in local legal circles. Armed with degrees from both Harvard Law School and Cornell School of...