Sarah Bernhardt

Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels

2010-12-05 00:00:00

"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...

Discoveries: 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' by Robert Hellenga

2010-09-05 00:00:00

Snakewoman of Little Egypt A Novel Robert Hellenga Bloomsbury USA: 342 pp., $25 Blend one anthropologist (Jackson), one young woman fresh out of prison for shooting and injuring her husband (Sunny), and that husband, a Pentecostal pastor from a...

Sheldon Epps: Play it again

2010-02-26 16:25:00

The Pasadena Playhouse has had more close calls than Pearl White, more farewells (and miraculous recoveries) than Sarah Bernhardt. And here we go again. The theater, which began 93 years ago as a troupe of actors in the Crown City, switched off its stage...

Father Gregory Boyle: Life among the homies

2010-04-10 00:00:00

I should have known better than to try to interview Father Gregory Boyle on his home turf, at the Homegirl Caf� in the Homeboy Industries building on the edge of Chinatown. It was like trying to interview Elvis in the lobby of the Flamingo Hotel. Old...

Aaron Stovitz dies at 85; original prosecutor of Charles Manson and his followers

2010-01-25 22:53:00

Aaron Stovitz, the original prosecutor of mass murderer Charles Manson and three female followers who was removed from the trial for comments he made about the case, has died. He was 85. Stovitz died Monday at a Tarzana hospital after a long battle...

The strangest roomful of art in L.A. right now

2010-07-15 16:33:14

National Theatre goes global with 'Phèdre' broadcast

2009-06-28 00:00:00

In his six years as head of the Royal National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner has made a name for himself with his bold moves. He has commissioned large-scale plays and productions dealing with hot-button political issues, he brought in a major sponsor to...

Yvonne Rainer is in her element again

2009-06-21 00:00:00

Back in the early 1970s, Yvonne Rainer was in the midst of a transition from postmodern dance maker to experimental film auteur. She still had all kinds of ideas for new dances, but she would jokingly send them to her friend, the choreographer Trisha...

Barbra Streisand furnishes her design taste

2009-10-10 00:00:00

Barbra Streisand, a well-educated student of antiques and vintage decorative arts, has finally declared a major: "Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love," she says. Think of it as a...

San Bernardino: Distinguished by foothills, French fries

2007-10-28 00:00:00

San Bernardino may not be the Eden the early inhabitants stumbled upon, but the creeks and river are still inviting, and snowcapped mountains grace its backdoor in the wintertime. Sports and cultural events abound in this storied city where the McDonald...

Île hop: Who needs hip?

2004-09-05 00:00:00

At 6:30 on a pitch-dark morning early last October, I was backing a French rental car down a ramp from the dock at Le Palais on Belle-�le onto the ferry, my eyes frozen on an attendant who was waving his arms frantically and yelling. "� droit!" (To the...

Quebec, where merry is made

2004-12-19 00:00:00

Snowflakes dusted my nose as I stood in Place-Royale, the birthplace of French civilization in North America and, more recently, site of the arrest of Leonardo DiCaprio's con-man character in the 2002 film "Catch Me If You Can." In the movie, the ancient...

Sarah Bernhardt was an internationally lauded stage actress known for her incredible emotional range. Her career was legendary even in her own time, with many referring to her as "The Divine Sarah."

2010-02-12 12:39:28

In 1968, Streisand made the film version of "Hello, Dolly!" "They asked what kind of furnishing did I want in the trailer," she recalls.

2009-10-09 16:27:29

At the Garden Court in the Palace Hotel, a diner can imagine Sarah Bernhardt or Oscar Wilde sitting beneath a palm.

2002-11-14 15:16:24