Garson Kanin

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...

West Hollywood hotel: Charlie Chaplin Tramp stayed here

2010-11-19 16:29:00

Entering the Charlie Chaplin cottage, I stooped to avoid hitting my head. At 5 feet 8, I'm about 3 inches taller than Chaplin. (It's said the Little Tramp had the door made small so his guests would have to bow as they entered.) I was at the Charlie,...

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Oct. 8, 1940

2010-10-08 16:32:57

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 1, 1941

2011-03-01 16:33:12

Monster Mash: Google partners with Holocaust museum; 'Phantom of the Opera' celebrates birthday

2011-01-27 16:33:06

Monster Mash: Kim Cattrall taking 'Private Lives' to Toronto, then Broadway; 'Spider-Man' in jeopardy?

2011-02-09 16:33:07

Movie Star Mystery Photo

2009-12-07 16:32:43

Why can't Nancy Meyers get any respect?

2009-12-17 16:32:29

Garbo! The unending saga of Hollywood's most mysterious, misunderstood star

2013-03-29 02:30:06

"SHE WAS LIKE A HORSE ON THE TRACK. Nothing, and then the bell goes, and something happens," said Hollywood cinematographer James Wong Howe about Greta Garbo. If you're like me, sometimes you roam your living quarters picking up and putting down books...

George Platt, theatrical producer

2012-10-09 15:14:00

George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills. Born in Baltimore, he...

Jim Belushi - Check Out Your Gout

2011-12-15 11:38:26

It’s no secret that Jim Belushi likes to entertain – whether on camera, on Broadway, or playing the blues. But when Belushi went on stage one night with excruciating pain in his toe and experienced a painful performance, that’s when he...

Films to fan the flames

2001-02-14 00:00:00

For Valentine's Day, with love from Mike: a selection of the best movie romances, in several categories: The all-time great romance Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" of course. But which of the many versions? The stately 1936 MGM George Cukor one, with a...

Don DeFore, Pamela Britton and Frank Aletter in Garson Kanin 's comedy "Born Yesterday" at Melodyland Theatre in Anaheim in March 1966.

2009-05-14 15:12:50

. Gordon and Kanin received an Oscar nomination for their screenplay, which featured such witty, sophisticated lines as Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.

2008-05-27 15:03:29