Shirley Temple

Harry Reems dies at 65; porn actor starred in 'Deep Throat'

2013-03-20 19:02:00

Harry Reems, who starred with Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat" and became a cause celebre in Hollywood after he was convicted on federal obscenity charges related to the movie, has died. He was 65. Reems, who had pancreatic...

Oscar nominations: Quvenzhane Wallis is young but not youngest ever

2013-01-10 14:00:00

One of the great surprises of the 2013 Oscar nominations was 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis' lead actress nomination for "Beasts of the Southern Wild." The young girl's larger-than-life performance as Hushpuppy charmed enough Academy voters to make her...

Ring in the new year with classic comedies

2012-12-27 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...

The Rose Parade grows up

2013-01-01 00:00:00

It's just a parade, after all, a once-a-year parade, so in the grand scheme of things, the Tournament of Roses Parade doesn't matter — until it does. And it does. There's a paradox at the core of Pasadena's pretty street party. What began in...

Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Elementary' on CBS

2013-01-02 20:05:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 30, 2012 - Jan. 5, 2012 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES The Big Bang Theory: "Southland's" Regina King guest stars as the university's director of employee...

Margaret Talbot's 'The Entertainer' an engaging tribute

2012-11-02 04:00:00

-------------------- The Entertainer Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century Margaret Talbot Riverhead: 432 pp., $28.95 -------------------- In "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century," New Yorker staff writer...

Tony Martin dies at 98; singer-actor in Hollywood musicals

2012-07-30 11:35:00

Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98. Martin, who toured for years with his wife, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Los Angeles,...

Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2012-06-08 16:32:00

First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...

'Mad Men' recap: A night with the grown-ups

2012-04-30 16:37:49

Patience Abbe dies at 87; bestselling child author

2012-03-26 00:00:00

Patience Abbe was only 11 when the memoir she wrote with her two brothers, "Around the World in Eleven Years," climbed onto the bestseller lists for grown-ups in 1936. As the siblings recounted their nomadic childhood in Europe and subsequent move to...

Bill Tapia dies at 103; virtuoso ukulele player

2011-12-06 00:00:00

Bill Tapia, a virtuoso ukulele player from Hawaii who learned to strum the instrument at age 7, performed for U.S. troops during World War I and was still touring and teaching well after hitting the century mark, has died. He was 103. Tapia died in his...

'Hunger Games' fans set up camp at L.A. Live

2012-03-12 04:35:48

Fourth-graders who participated were, back row from left: Jaxson Spindler as Ole Christensen, Connor Kaup as Michael Jackson, Dillion Talks as Christopher Columbus, Zach Mayes as Winston Churchill and Lincoln Stuwe as Ronald Reagan.

2013-03-17 21:27:00

Actress Shirley Temple is 82 today. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)

2013-03-12 18:30:00

Grand Marshal Shirley Temple rides on a float covered with a bed of roses in 1939.

2012-12-28 16:50:19