Edward G. Robinson

Top 5 tough-guy actors who can sing and dance

2013-01-02 06:00:00

Tough guys do dance and sing. With two of Hollywood’s biggest manly men now starring in the same film, there’s a good chance that some of their male fans secretly wish they were seeing Wolverine versus Maximus. Instead, Hugh Jackman and...

Historic Pierpont Inn & Spa sold for $6.5 million in Ventura

2012-11-25 09:15:00

The Pierpont Inn & Spa, a century-old Ventura hotel that once served as a getaway for L.A.'s upper crust, has sold for $6.5 million. The 77-room Arts and Crafts style hotel was built in 1910 by Josephine Pierpont and is the oldest hostelry in Ventura...

L.A.'s greatest sports moments No. 12: Dodgers' first game in L.A.

2011-12-05 16:33:36

Oscar voters: 99-year-old in academy 'never wanted to be a star'

2012-02-20 16:39:25

Oscars' oldest voter, 101, offers link to Hollywood's Golden Age

2012-02-21 16:38:23

L.A.'s postwar art scene: Hot rods and hedonism

2011-09-18 00:00:00

In September 1945, under a pall of ocher smog and summer heat, Los Angeles entered the postwar world. The city then was bigger, wealthier and more diverse than ever. Its established people — mostly past middle age and conservative, a few who were...

Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'

2011-10-19 00:00:00

Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101. Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...

PASSINGS: Barbara Kent, Edgar Villchur

2011-10-20 00:00:00

Barbara Kent Silent film star also was in talkies Barbara Kent, 103, an actress who began her career in silent films of the 1920s and made the transition to talkies in the Harold Lloyd comedies "Welcome Danger" and "Feet First," died Oct. 13 in Palm...

Hugh Hefner helps present a Humphrey Bogart retrospective

2010-03-03 00:00:00

Hugh Hefner has a confession. "I think I opened the first Playboy Club because of 'Casablanca.' I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick's," admits the pajama-clad founder of the Playboy empire. The Oscar-winning 1942...

Book review: 'The Troubled Man'

2011-03-30 00:00:00

Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Kurt Wallander? Don't worry, the peerless Swedish police detective, the pride of the force in rural Ystad, doesn't get ruthlessly gunned down like Edward G. Robinson's Rico Bandello in "Little Caesar." It's that author...

Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men

2010-08-26 16:33:40

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 28, 1941

2011-04-28 16:33:32

"Soylent Green" (1973) One of those so-bad-it's-great films. In this loony but popular thriller set in the future, Heston's stalwart Det. Thorn discovers a gruesome fact behind a mysterious synthetic food -- "Soylent Green is people!

2013-04-22 07:40:00

A likeness of Edward G. Robinson sits next to a wine stopper in the wine cellar at the family home of Chazz Palminteri and wife Gianna Palminteri.

2011-11-04 00:00:00

The Chairman of the Board has a swingin' time in the 1964 musical comedy "Robin and the 7 Hoods," which transplants the hero out of the hood of Nottingham into 1930s Chicago.

2010-05-11 16:21:16