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Whitley Heights
Times Staff WriterThe best time I've ever had in Los Angeles was the three months I lived in Whitley Heights. It was last summer. I had just moved from a town of 354 in New Mexico, and Los Angeles was daunting. Luckily, I had friends living on what locals call The Hill,...Tags: Marlene Dietrich, William Faulkner, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Metal and Mineral, Los Angeles
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The Hottest Property
Times Staff Writer1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...Tags: Frederick Law Olmsted, Ava Gardner, Sculpture, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Farms
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Bottoms Up
Down the hill from Whitley Heights, at the joint where Robert Mitchum and W.C. Fields used to knock 'em back, I sat on a sticky pleather barstool and confidently ordered the lowest-sounding drink I could think of: a Depth Charge. "We don't have that,...Tags: Robert Mitchum
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Mars in apogee
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRay Bradbury is the first Los Angeles writer many people read. He's also the first reasonably serious writer -- someone concerned with political and moral themes -- many encounter. His early science-fiction novels and story collections have drawn readers,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Wallace Stevens, Fiction, University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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'No respect' comic Dangerfield dies at 82
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRodney Dangerfield, who tapped an enduringly rich vein of comedy gold when he created his stage persona as a middle-aged everyman who got no respect, died Tuesday. He was 82. Dangerfield died at UCLA Medical Center of complications following heart...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Music Theater, Bob Saget, Chevy Chase, Dining and Drinking
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Celebrity hijinks on the links were a matter of course
Times Staff WriterThe sycamore that guards the 12th green at Riviera Country Club? That's where Humphrey Bogart used to sit with a trench coat and a thermos -- contents undetermined -- to watch players go by. Some people still refer to the spot as "Bogart's tree," so with...Tags: James Caan, John Wayne, Kevin Costner, George Burns, PGA Tour
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In Lompoc, a W.C. Fields trip for two
![We set off from the San Fernando Valley late one hazy Friday morning with only two notions about our destination: It was the flower seed capital of the nation, and the locals were drunk and dysfunctional. The first we learned in school, and the second we learned from "The Bank Dick."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-03/7201197.jpg "We set off from the San Fernando Valley late one hazy Friday morning with only two notions about our destination: It was the flower seed capital of the nation, and the locals were drunk and dysfunctional. The first we learned in school, and the second we learned from "The Bank Dick.\"")
Times Staff WriterWe set off from the San Fernando Valley late one hazy Friday morning with only two notions about our destination: It was the flower seed capital of the nation, and the locals were drunk and dysfunctional. The first we learned in school, and the second...Tags: Martha Stewart, Lompoc (Santa Barbara, California), Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 17, 2000 "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is one overstuffed movie, but it's by no means a turkey. Yes, it's odd to see a $100-million-plus extravaganza that mocks materialism and extols simplicity. Yes, the film's...Tags: Jerry Lewis, James Horner, Holidays, Brian Grazer, Crimes
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History behind iron gates in Lafayette Square
Special to The TimesThe basics The community of 236 homes is bordered by Crenshaw, Venice, Washington and West boulevards. Although founded in 1913 by developer George Crenshaw, it is named after the French marquis who fought alongside Colonists in the American Revolution....Tags: Death, Realty, Real Estate Agents, Washington (U.S. state), American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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The Casting Crib
For the TimesI'm pawing through a wardrobe of matching caps and booties, jumpers and nightshirts to find outfits that will make my 2-month-old twin boys look more, well, infantile. This on the advice of their Hollywood manager, who counsels me to lie about their...Tags: Bewitched (tv program), CBS Corp., Government, Defense, Hospitals and Clinics
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Great pairings in Hollywood a rarity
Sun StaffAdam and Eve. Romulus and Remus. Romeo and Juliet. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. Sears and Roebuck. Hard to think of one without the other, isn't it? Is there a chance future generations will think of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, stars of "The Mexican,"...Tags: Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Jerry Lewis, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor
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Hepburn, Bogart easy winners in list of movie greats
Tribune Movie CriticKatharine Hepburn, the indomitable New Englander whose career spanned seven decades, and Humphrey Bogart, the sad-eyed trenchcoated king of film noir, were named the 20th century's top screen legends in June 1999 by the American Film Institute. It's hard...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Deborah Kerr, John Wayne, Arts and Culture
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