Cary Grant

Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president

2013-03-27 22:00:00

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...

Award-winning Italian and French classics on tap this week

2013-03-21 06:00:00

Italian classic films directed by masters of cinema Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni will be vying for viewers' attention Thursday evening. The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood presents Fellini's...

Review: A high-voltage 'End of the Rainbow'

2013-03-21 16:25:00

Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time. The central prop of the bio-musical now playing at...

Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'

2013-01-17 19:11:00

Dear Abby: "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?" "Absolutely nothing," she replied. The wry answer from Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips...

Ring in the new year with classic comedies

2012-12-27 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...

David Thomson takes a wide view of movies in 'The Big Screen'

2012-11-16 04:00:00

Even the most ardent traditionalists have to acknowledge that vast, sweeping changes are at work within the realm of film culture. The very practice of shooting on actual physical film, not to mention running that film through a projector for viewing, has...

Eleanor LaVove dies at 94; co-founder of dollhouse museum

2012-09-04 00:00:00

Eleanor LaVove, a former fashion editor who co-founded Angels Attic, a museum devoted to antique and contemporary dollhouses, toys and miniatures, died Aug. 24 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 94. The cause was ovarian cancer, said...

Western Costume, closet to the stars, turns 100

2012-06-17 00:00:00

To the casual passerby, there's nothing remarkable about the 120,000-square-foot former printing plant fronting a sun-baked stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood. There's nothing to indicate that, just beyond the double doors, gangsters are earning...

Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2012-06-08 16:32:00

First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...

Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles

2012-06-05 10:03:00

First published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...

Presidential candidates stay on (fashion) message

2012-01-15 00:00:00

When the Republican presidential candidates took the stage at the NBC News/Facebook debate on "Meet the Press" on Jan. 8, it was their last big chance to make an impression before the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday. They may have strayed from one...

George Lindsey dies at 83; 'The Andy Griffith Show's' Goober Pyle

2012-05-07 12:21:00

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning. He was 83. Lindsey, who later was a regular on the...

Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant star in the movie "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), which is directed by Marion Gering and is among the films to be screened.

2013-02-27 17:37:39

Cary Grant eats Dog Haus' hot dogs for dinner at Glendale homeless shelter, National Guard Armory on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Grant has been at the shelter since December 2012. Dog Haus, a Pasadena restaurant, served 240 hot dogs to the homeless.

2013-02-26 00:00:00

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy star in "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," screening Thursday at the Aero.

2012-12-23 11:58:14