Casablanca (movie)

A starry support system for the Geffen Playhouse

2013-05-14 13:50:00

Clint Eastwood stood behind the podium at Monday’s “Backstage at the Geffen,” getting ready to present an award to his longtime attorney Bruce Ramer, the founding chairman of the playhouse's board. Host Debbie Allen placed an empty...

After 'Gatsby' sank at Sony, it swam to Warner Bros.

2013-05-09 15:10:00

It may seem strange that anybody would pass on financing a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. But when Baz Luhrmann was trying to make “The Great Gatsby,” with the “Titanic” star cast in the lead role, every studio in town said no...

'To Catch a Thief' kicks off Last Remaining Seats film series

2013-04-13 09:00:00

The Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats film series, which shines the spotlight on historic movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles, is kicking off June 1 at the Orpheum Theatre with Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 romantic thriller, "To Catch a Thief."...

Ellen DeGeneres' popularity boosted by YouTube discoveries

2013-04-08 07:57:00

Ellen DeGeneres' discovery on YouTube of two British cousins -- who loved to sing and dance in pink frilly dresses -- marked "the beginning of a beautiful friendship," to borrow from Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca." In this case, the friendship that...

Machneyuda chefs at Jar, Fullerton Arboretum spring dinner, more

2013-03-25 14:29:00

Jar hosts guest chefs: Israeli chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon of Machneyuda in Jerusalem will be paying chef Suzanne Tracht’s restaurant Jar a visit April 13 for a one-night-only dinner collaboration. In honor of Israel’s 65th Independence...

Review: 'Emperor' has misplaced priorities

2013-03-07 17:12:00

The scene is a devastated Japan, August 1945, as "Emperor," the new historical drama starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones, begins. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are little more than smoking rubble and stone-faced survivors. Emperor Hirohito has officially...

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block

2012-11-18 09:53:20

'Silver Linings,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' lead Spirit Award nominations

2012-11-27 11:24:00

Two offbeat comedies dominated the 28th annual Film Independent Spirit Award nominations Tuesday morning. David O. Russell's quirky "Silver Linings Playbook," starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, and Wes Anderson's charming coming-of-age...

Sam's piano from 'Casablanca' on the auction block

2012-11-27 11:56:00

The piano on which Sam (Dooley Wilson) played the haunting love song "As Time Goes By" in the 1942 Oscar-winning movie classic "Casablanca" is going on the auction block. Sothebys in New York will put the iconic instrument up for sale on Dec. 14. The...

Los Angeles' Hollywood legacy is an auction house dream

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Norma Shearer's silk sheets sat for years in a Los Angeles garage, with no one to admire the embroidered monogram: NST, for Norma Shearer Thalberg. The starlet's Louis Vuitton steamer trunks waited in vain to voyage. One was dedicated solely to...

The Joker returns to ‘Batman’ pages, building on 72-year history

2012-08-01 19:43:05

Justin Bieber pays $6.5 million for Calabasas home

2012-05-27 00:00:00

The price that first-time homeowner Justin Bieber paid for his new digs in Calabasas has wended its way into the public record: $6.5 million. Set on 1.3 acres in a gated community, the 10,000-square-foot main house is described as "transitional French"...

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this 1943 wartime romance. Sunday, May 19, at noon at Spotlight Theaters on Front Street in Hartford. Brunch served in the cafe. $6.

2013-05-13 10:38:00

Oscar doesn't always get it wrong. Bogart was nominated for his most famous film -- 1942's "Casablanca" -- and won for 1951's "The African Queen," yet he was not nominated for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "To Have and Have Not," "The Maltese Falcon" (pictured) and "In a Lonely Place." Oops.

2013-02-22 12:01:29

The piano from 1942's "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is going on the auction block

2012-11-27 10:09:29