Jack Lemmon

Oscars stage manager braces for his final cues to the stars

2013-02-24 07:00:00

He delivered a forgotten harmonica to Stevie Wonder onstage at the Grammy Awards, supplied a shoulder to lean on for a post-hip-surgery Gregory Peck at the Oscars and served as a human Xanax for hundreds of other stars in the most terrifying and...

PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...

PASSINGS: Cliff Osmond

2012-12-31 00:00:00

Cliff Osmond, 75, a character actor who was a regular presence in director Billy Wilder's comedies of the 1960s and '70s and appeared in dozens of TV series into the 1990s, died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, said his...

Appreciation: Jack Klugman relatable as Oscar, fervid as Quincy

2012-12-25 15:03:00

Jack Klugman, who died Monday at the age of 90, was already 48 years old when he became a TV star, playing slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison on ABC's adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple." He was not unknown, being by that time the possessor...

Sharon Stone sells Beverly Crest compound for $6.575 million

2012-12-01 09:00:00

Actress Sharon Stone has sold a compound in the Beverly Crest area for $6.575 million. The buyer is producer Lili Zanuck, widow of film producer Richard Zanuck. Surrounded by walls and gated, the Mediterranean-style estate sits on 5 acres with...

Comedian's former Beverly Hills estate for sale

2012-10-31 18:34:00

An estate in Beverly Hills that was once home to comedian Joe E. Brown is on the market at $6.89 million. Set apart from the street by walls and a gate, the 1930 Spanish Colonial Revival faces in on a courtyard with a fountain. Among original details are...

Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

2012-09-02 17:15:00

As far back as Louis Lumi�re's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.�There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

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...

Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening

2012-05-03 16:37:49

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

2011-12-05 16:33:36

Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week

2012-01-04 16:37:30

Oscar voters: Meet the academy's youngest members

2012-02-23 16:37:14

Chris Lemmon is a television and film actor who lives in Glastonbury. Lemmons credits include ' Knots Landing' (2000), 'Duet' (1987-1989) and 'That's Life!' (1986), Lemmon is the son of actor Jack Lemmon.

2013-01-09 00:00:00

On Monday evening, Turner Classic Movies says arrivederci to 2012 with several films set during New Year's Eve, including two classics from 1960: Billy Wilder's dark comedic masterpiece "The Apartment," which won the best film Oscar, and the cool caper flick "Ocean's Eleven.

2012-12-30 14:36:46

Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon, standing, are shown with Novak's mother, Blanche, and Lemmon's father, John, as they film the comedy "The Notorious Landlady," in California on Sept., 26, 1961.

2012-11-21 18:27:00