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Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors

2012-06-03 00:00:00

Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...

Edie Wasserman dies at 95; Hollywood philanthropist and wife of studio chief

2011-08-19 00:00:00

Edie Wasserman, who was the widow of Hollywood powerhouse Lew Wasserman and who was known as a tireless benefactor for charitable causes, especially the Motion Picture and Television Fund, has died. She was 95. Wasserman died Thursday in Beverly Hills of...

Thanksgiving Day Fare on TV: 'Twilight Zone,' parades, football

2011-11-21 21:36:48

Ben Stiller selling 11-bathroom estate

2009-09-12 00:00:00

A night at the Stiller compound? Comic actor Ben Stiller and his actress wife, Christine Taylor, have listed their Hollywood Hills property at $12.5 million. The site includes two houses and a one-bedroom guesthouse for a total of 10 bedrooms and 11...

Bette Davis' former condo for sale

2009-08-28 00:00:00

The former West Hollywood home of Oscar-winning actress Bette Davis is for sale at $2.45 million. The 2,242-square-foot condominium is on the fourth floor of the 1930 Colonial House, which was designed by architect Leland A. Bryant and reflects the...

Movie review: 'Making the Boys'

2011-04-29 00:00:00

It may be hard for those who grew up watching "Will & Grace" to imagine the shock and excitement when Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" caught fire off-Broadway in 1968, becoming one of the most discussed, derided and defended dramas of its era. A...

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, May 3, 1941

2011-05-03 16:33:29

Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79; legendary actress

2011-03-23 21:05:00

Elizabeth Taylor, the glamorous queen of American movie stardom, whose achievements as an actress were often overshadowed by her rapturous looks and real-life dramas, has died. She was 79. Hospitalized six weeks ago for congestive heart failure, Taylor...

'Planet of the Apes,' 'T2' and 'Back to the Future' turn back time this weekend

2010-04-27 16:33:31

'10 Bad Dates With De Niro' edited by Richard Kelly

2008-05-04 00:00:00

10 Bad Dates With De Niro A Book of Alternative Movie Lists Edited by Richard T. Kelly Overlook/Rookery: 460 pp., $29.95 Movie geeks are list-making animals. It begins with the frenzied -- and nonsensical -- annual compilation of "10 best lists" (as...

When traveling with children, the question lingers: 'What if?'

2005-01-09 00:00:00

MY family and I were on a Christmas cruise of the Mexican Riviera when we learned of the tsunami that devastated South Asia. Standing in the lovely gym of the Diamond Princess, I watched the horrifying images flash across the TV screen and heard the...

Amid Wedding Hoopla, a Town Goes Hollywood

1991-10-07 00:00:00

On the streets of this quiet Santa Ynez Valley village, something was clearly going on Sunday, even if the details were a little fuzzy to some. Taking notice of all the police, tourist JoAnn Killmer guessed crime. "I thought somebody had been robbed,"...

Rainer, accompanied by British actor and photographer Roddy McDowell, attends the 70th Annual Academy Awards in March 1998. McDowell died of cancer later that year.

2009-12-30 11:02:05

"Planet of the Apes" Remarkably fun, entertaining sci-fi adventure based on the Pierre Boulle novel about three astronauts who crash land on a planet where apes rule and humans are treated like animals.

2008-04-26 13:09:58

Elizabeth Taylor playfully chases Roddy McDowall on the beach in Malibu. From the book "Liz: The Pictorial Biography of Elizabeth Taylor."

2006-04-28 14:52:51