Dean Martin

PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens

2013-03-05 00:00:00

Donald A. Glaser Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after...

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...

Gripping 'Cowsills Story' documentary coming to Showtime

2013-03-06 12:00:00

The new documentary “Family Band: The Cowsills Story,” premiering tonight on Showtime, opens with a compelling scene showing musician Bob Cowsill setting up single-handed for another thankless gig in the corner of a restaurant-bar of an Indian...

Golden Gate

2012-12-03 13:29:00

Golden Gate Hotel & Casino recently celebrated its 75 anniversary with its first major renovation in five decades. The 122-room boutique hotel has added a five-story luxury tower with 16 suites — some named in honor of members of the Rat Pack (Frank...

Fred Couples can tell you some Riviera Country Club history

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you...

Daum: Amazon's algorithm of love

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Amazon, the behemoth online retailer and knower of all habits and tastes, has released a list of America's 20 most romantic cities. It's high time. Gandhi might have said the best measure of a society is how it treats...

Tony Lip dies at 82; character actor known for mob roles

2013-01-07 00:00:00

Tony Lip, 82, a veteran character actor known for playing mob roles on "The Sopranos" television show and in films, died Friday at a hospital in Teaneck, N.J. Family members told New Jersey's Record newspaper that Lip, a resident of Paramus, N.J., had...

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...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'NCIS' on CBS

2013-01-07 20:05:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 6-12, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Betty White's Off Their Rockers: Korean pop sensation PSY and Kim Kardashian are featured as the hidden camera...

Mr. Warmth: Don Rickles

2012-12-10 00:46:06

Live review: Bloc Party at the Palladium

2012-12-08 14:44:00

If you want to make any late-millennial urban party-person get all fuzzy and nostalgic, play Bloc Party’s single “Banquet.” Your subject will likely unwind a tale from a decadent, mid-2000s night out accompanied by the London post-punk...

Earl Dean Martin

2012-10-22 20:23:34

The highlight of "The Dean Martin Christmas Show," which was just released on DVD, is a comedy bit with the host dressed in a tux playing an employee at a department store complaint department. He's visited by Bob Newhart, who wants to return a bad toupee.

2012-12-02 16:39:28

Jerry Lewis, left, and Dean Martin are in costume for "Pardners," on location near Phoenix, Ariz., in December 1955.

2012-10-17 16:21:00

Billy Wilder, right, with Kim Novak and Dean Martin on the set of the film "Kiss Me Stupid" on Sept. 1, 1964.

2012-10-17 16:10:00