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May.12.2013
My niece has to do a report on a famous Californian. She chose Lucille Ball. That's my girl! Cue I Love Lucy theme!
I emailed Meranda and told her I had a season of I Love Lucy on DVD, plus the movie Yours Mine and Ours. Not only does Ball do a great job as Helen North Beardsley...
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Jan.02.2013
The Skirball Cultural Center has established itself as one of the world’s most dynamic Jewish cultural institutions, and among the leading cultural venues in Los Angeles. Its mission is to explore the connections between Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. It seeks to...
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Nov.12.2012
The Cinema Arts Centre commemorates the 50th Anniversary of legendary Hollywood superstar Marilyn Monroe’s death with a rare in-person appearance by Don Murray, Monroe’s Academy Award-nominated co-star in Bus Stop. Joshua Logan’s classic 1956 comedy is based on a play by Pulitzer Prize winner...
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Sep.22.2012
Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda has been tapped to be awarded the inaugural Visionary Award at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 18th at the Biltmore Hotel. Sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club, the evening’s festivities will...
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Sep.01.2012
Kesey's first book, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, is written in a more relaxed traditional style, but he must have been on LSD too long when he wrote SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, because he's everywhere, even in a dog's head. (Tolstoy did that too. It's okay; I've been there too.)
It all happens in...
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Aug.13.2012
Helen Gurley Brown was a best-selling author and publisher. As the iconic editor-in-chief for Cosmopolitan Magazine for three decades, she spoke for woman’s issues, and captured the essence of the feminine mystique. Her husband produced top films, including Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, and Driving Miss...
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Apr.07.2011
Pubished in 1963, SAGN was Ken Kesey's second book. He must have written chunks of it while on LSD, because of the herky-jerky wildness of some passages. (At Standford in 1959, he was paid by the CIA to experiment with LSD.)
(Leland) "Can I possibly go back and wrest from my past some...
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Mar.10.2011
Andy Stamper (Cliff Potts)and his brother, Hank (Paul Neuman), are loggers. Andy is under water, pinned there by a sudden movement of the logs they are working. This is one of the most tragic and difficult scenes I've seen portrayed in film. It's from SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, a 1970 flick based on...
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Jan.15.2010
The other night, my partner Peg and I watched this 1957 Sydney Lumet classic about 12 jurors. All men. Who must determine the guilt of a young man accused of killing his father.
All but three minutes of this 96-minute film take place in a 16 by 24 foot jury room. On a day that is predicted to be...
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