Sammy Davis Jr.

PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...

Marching for civil rights

2013-02-09 10:00:00

What's remarkable about photojournalist Leonard Freed's book "This Is the Day: The March on Washington" (Getty: $29.95), a photo essay documenting the historic Aug. 28, 1963, civil-rights march, is that it includes only one photograph of Martin Luther...

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...

Donny and Marie are pros at this

2012-12-07 18:20:00

Donny and Marie Osmond hit the stage at the Pantages Theatre in a cloud of nearly palpable pizazz. For two hours the indefatigable showbiz veterans, kicking off "A Donny and Marie Christmas in Los Angeles," sang, danced and smiled — oh, did they...

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...

'This Is 40': Graham Parker happily sinks fictional record label

2012-12-20 06:00:00

For a musician, there are probably more flattering movie roles to be offered than that of a guy who single-handedly ruins a record label with his dismal sales. Fortunately for British rocker Graham Parker, who plays such a character in the new Judd Apatow...

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block

2012-11-18 09:53:20

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...

Palm Springs, His Way

2012-10-12 16:34:00

Back in 1975, when Mel Haber first opened his Palm Springs restaurant, he waited for the call that would signal true success. Three months passed before it came: “He’s on his way over.” The “he” was Frank Sinatra.� In those...

Old Hollywood lingers at Chez Jay

2012-02-24 00:00:00

When piped-in music and a bar's history perfectly align, it makes for a sweet cocktail of synchronicity, a besotted wink from the intimate interior that makes all the drinkers lean into their liquor just a little bit more. On a recent Sunday night, the...

Oscars 2012: An effort to be inclusive

2012-02-28 13:30:00

With open arms, the Oscars welcomed diversity back to its ceremony, but the embrace turned out to be more awkward than warm. Last year's Academy Awards were roundly criticized by several observers for its notable lack of diversity. Actor Samuel L....

Damien Bona dies at 56; co-wrote 'Inside Oscar' on Academy Awards

2012-02-20 00:00:00

Damien Bona earned a law degree from New York University in 1980 but spent only two years practicing law. As he told the Los Angeles Times in 1986, "I had to choose between a job and an obsession. I chose the obsession." Bona's obsession was the Academy...

Various scenes of Andy Williams performing on a show with entertainers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Julie Andrews and others.

2012-09-26 07:55:00

The legendary entertainer died of throat cancer in 1990. He was 64.

2012-09-05 08:12:32

The Chairman of the Board (seen here with Kim Novak in a still from "The Man With the Golden Arm") hosted the 35th Oscar telecast in 1963 and co-hosted the 47th awards with Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Shirley MacLaine in 1975.

2012-08-02 11:37:29