John Gilbert

Movies: The '20s roaring again

2011-12-18 00:00:00

Cue the flappers, the fringe, the beads and the bobs. The Roaring '20s are back in fashion — on the runways and on-screen. It started in September at the spring 2012 fashion shows, with Ralph Lauren's "Great Gatsby" gowns, Tory Burch's...

The Costumes: Dressing for the 1920s in 'The Artist'

2011-11-06 00:00:00

Throughout his career, costume designer Mark Bridges has styled looks from diverse decades. For the 1970s-era "Boogie Nights," he outfitted Mark Wahlberg in denim bell bottoms. In "Blow," he found Johnny Depp '60s-inspired pocketed suits and turtlenecks...

Tom Garvin dies at 67; versatile jazz pianist, composer

2011-08-11 00:00:00

Tom Garvin, a jazz pianist and composer-arranger who was best known as an exceptional accompanist, died July 31 at an assisted living facility in Encino. He was 67. The cause was cancer, which diagnosed three years ago, said Tom Mitchell, a close friend....

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...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: ‘Jefferson’ at 8 p.m. on History.

2010-08-23 21:36:04

Theater review: 'When Garbo Talks!' at International City Theatre

2010-10-20 21:32:49

A celebration of dance in film at TCM Classic Film Festival

2011-05-02 16:33:23

Irvine Lake trout trollers score best; 10-14 rainbow tops catches

2010-12-08 16:33:49

Paperback Writers: James Boswell's 'London Journal 1762-1763'; Michael J. Arlen's 'Exiles' [Updated]

2010-11-21 00:00:00

The handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with...

'The Vampire Diaries': To everything there is a season

2010-04-30 04:35:23

'A Bright and Guilty Place' by Richard Rayner

2009-07-12 00:00:00

A Bright and Guilty Place Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age Richard Rayner Doubleday: 270 pp., $25 Everything has its counterpart. For every piece of matter there is a like piece of antimatter, for every movie star there is or...

'The Vampire Diaries': Trouble brewing at the sock-hop

2010-01-29 04:34:30

It doesn't help the Gilbert's case that Elena's ancestors tried to kill both of her vampire boyfriends during the late 1800s or that her brother Jeremy is eventually murdered through their family's involvement in the supernatural world.

2013-04-05 11:01:00

The Glendale Gun Show attracted those for guns, like John Gilbert, front, of Castaic, and those against guns, like Occupy Democracy Pasadena in the background, to what may be the final one at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in Glendale on Saturday, March 2, 2013.

2013-03-02 00:00:00

King Vidor's World War I epic was notable for its brutal scenes of German snipers gunning down U.S. soldiers, while another wounded soldier is shown with blood running down his head.

2013-02-14 17:35:05