Gracie Allen

L.A.'s screen-star mayors

2013-05-20 12:50:00

Hollywood, as much of the world does not realize, is merely a neighborhood within the city limits of Los Angeles. It hasn’t been its own city for 103 years, and yet it’s the tiny, glamorous tail wagging the city’s workaday dog, which...

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...

Would modern L.A. voters elect a 'colorful' mayor?

2013-03-05 12:03:00

In the midst of this campaign for a new mayor for Los Angeles, I spent a bit of time writing about the old ones, the characters, the bloviators and crooks, the puritanical and the amorous. And readers loved them. But truthfully, now, would we really...

Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights

2012-06-06 11:43:00

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...

Ray Bradbury: Author's roots at L.A. high school celebrated

2012-06-06 16:35:27

Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent

2011-10-16 19:28:00

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. For two decades, Mengers was one of...

Sue Mengers, powerhouse Hollywood agent, dies at 79

2011-10-16 21:33:52

Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children

2010-02-02 00:00:00

Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95. Ruben, who devoted much of...

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Sept. 15, 1941

2010-09-15 16:33:22

A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

2009-11-07 16:32:44

Anne Roberts Nelson dies at 86; CBS television executive

2009-06-25 00:00:00

Anne Roberts Nelson, a pioneering television executive with CBS who negotiated contracts for long-running hits such as "I Love Lucy" and "Gunsmoke," has died. She was 86. Nelson, who was hired in 1945 and was the longest-serving CBS employee, with 64...

Tooting the Horn for `All-Girl' Band Leader, 101

2006-08-27 00:00:00

Indomitable saxophonist Peggy Gilbert got the beat back in the 1920s, when Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and the Kansas City Nighthawks were wowing Jazz Age dance crowds. She was still blowing a hot tenor sax in 1981 on Johnny...

From left, Red Skelton, David L. Wolper, George Burns and David Brinkley were among new inductees into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

1989-01-09 00:00:00