Fatty Arbuckle

Around town: Malcolm McDowell's film legacy

2012-03-15 16:39:03

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Writing home: Brando Skyhorse

2011-06-04 00:00:00

Bookshelves real and virtual are stocked with volumes about Los Angeles and Southern California written by people who parachute into a Westside guest house for a few weeks, hit the hot spots and high spots, then write with voice-of-God authority for...

Classic Hollywood: Restoring Chaplin gems

2010-10-20 00:00:00

For the first half of the 20th century, Charlie Chaplin was the most famous movie comedian in the world thanks to his endearing Tramp character and the masterpieces he wrote and directed, including "The Gold Rush," "City Lights," "Modern Times" and "The...

On the Trail of the Keystone Kops

2010-12-03 04:32:42

Amazing Predictions for 1961!

2010-12-28 04:32:54

[Updated] Opera Review: 'Barber of Seville' at L.A. Opera

2009-11-30 21:32:40

Library May Remove Books on Making Liquor

2010-01-16 04:32:47

An unassuming movie capital of yore

2009-10-25 00:00:00

As a heavyweight contender four decades ago, 6-foot-6 Jack O'Halloran battled such tough hombres as George Foreman, Ken Norton and Cleveland Williams. Now O'Halloran is in a different kind of struggle, trying to find financial backers to help turn an old...

Earl Rogers and L.A.'s Picketing Ban

2010-07-19 04:33:14

An arresting art show at the ArcLight Cinemas

2010-03-04 16:35:06

U.S. Highway 395: California's 'mother road'

2007-04-22 00:00:00

EVERY road sings its own tune. Route 66 is a classic, sometimes raucous ditty from Chicago to L.A.; Highway 1 a twisty ballad to the voluptuous California coast; and U.S. 395 a mandolin-driven ode to the West that evokes images of cowboy boots and...

Donate this! (In my name)

2007-09-06 00:00:00

Arelatively new trend has emerged, and it needs to be stamped out right now. This summer, for my birthday, my literary agents sent me a card informing me that a donation in my name had been made to the "Victims of Childhood Sunburn" or some such...

Actor and comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at the Joseph Henry Steiners Birthday Party, date unknown. Arbuckle climbed to fame as an actor, most notable in the "Keystone Kops," a series of one-reel comedies, but then behind the camera as a director.

2013-01-25 15:55:42

This 1919 Pierce-Arrow was owned by silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and is a Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance award winner.

2012-12-14 16:12:00

Britney Spears The ruling Lolita of the new millennium had a kitten voice, a perfect body and no qualms about exhibiting her pubescent charms; then she tried to grow up, and began the most embarrassing fall a celebrity has endured since Fatty Arbuckle . Key song: "Toxic"

2008-07-02 12:59:21