George Burns

David Fincher, Cuba's female filmmakers among weekend highlights

2013-03-07 06:00:00

Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...

Would modern L.A. voters elect a 'colorful' mayor?

2013-03-05 12:03:00

In the midst of this campaign for a new mayor for Los Angeles, I spent a bit of time writing about the old ones, the characters, the bloviators and crooks, the puritanical and the amorous. And readers loved them. But truthfully, now, would we really...

Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights

2012-06-06 11:43:00

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...

Ray Bradbury: Author's roots at L.A. high school celebrated

2012-06-06 16:35:27

Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent

2011-10-16 19:28:00

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. For two decades, Mengers was one of...

Dory Previn dies at 86; Oscar-nominated songwriter

2012-02-16 00:00:00

Although she was an Oscar-nominated songwriter, Dory Previn was better known for ballads that spoke to wounded souls. A gifted lyricist, she mined her traumatic childhood and later mental illness to write confessional songs that found an audience —...

The Morning Fix: Oprah scores! Martha Stewart getting the hook?

2012-01-04 16:33:51

Oprah Winfrey is bringing her annual Oscar special to OWN

2012-02-10 16:36:01

OWN cancels Rosie O'Donnell's show

2012-03-16 21:38:04

Sue Mengers, powerhouse Hollywood agent, dies at 79

2011-10-16 21:33:52

Oprah Winfrey Network announces new series amid ongoing struggles

2011-11-18 16:35:55

Next Door Lounge set to open in Hollywood

2011-06-29 16:33:16

Sept. 15, 1997: Winfrey, saying that playing a slave in the film "Beloved" provided a new perspective on her work, tells her live audience in Chicago that she will continue hosting her show through the 1999-2000 season.

2011-05-12 07:27:24

Actors:: Morgan Freeman ("Bruce Almighty Alanis Morissette ("Dogma George Burns ("Oh God WG Grace ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail Charlton Heston (voice -- "The Ten Commandments") and many others. Godlike Qualities: Couldn't have the list without this one. Qualities? Well, he's God, sooo

2011-05-03 20:35:12

George Burns and Lena Horne join Perry Como on the singer's popular variety show, which ran on NBC from 1955 to 1963. Horne lost some film, TV and radio work in the early 1950s because of her involvement with two groups named as Communist fronts, but she remained a popular nightclub/cabaret

2010-05-10 13:38:40