Neil Patrick Harris will host the Oscars this Sunday. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times) Like every Oscar host before him, Harris has to win two persnickety audiences: the movie stars inside the Dolby Theatre and the folks at home who envy them and are not afraid to criticize…
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If you thought one supermoon was bright, how about three….? The full Moons of summer 2014—July 12th, August 10th, and Sept. 9th–will all be supermoons. The scientific term for the phenomenon is “perigee moon.” Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon’s orbit. The Moon…
This post has been getting a lot of traffic since Carla died on June 12th, 2014, I thought I’d put it front and center…for she burned bright and long. Today Laemmle is a tiny woman with curly, white hair and bright dancing eyes. She welcomes her visitor with a warm…
“My sister was born a lion, and I a tiger, and in the laws of the jungle, they were never friends.” via Joan Fontaine, star of ‘Suspicion’ and ‘Rebecca,’ dies at 96 – latimes.com. “Looking back on Hollywood, looking at it even today,” Ms. Fontaine wrote in “No Bed of…
By Ari Bloomekatz October 1, 2013, 8:10 a.m. As Congress failed to agree on a budget and President Obama’s healthcare law, parts of the federal government have started shutting down, with stoppages felt by Southern California residents and across the nation. One of the most jarring repercussions is the impending…
“He used to say if you could look at a house in a magazine from 40 years ago and still like it, that was good work,” said granddaughter Karen E. Hudson, who has spent nearly three decades chronicling the work of the first African American fellow of the American Institute…
March 18, 2004|David A. Keeps | Times Staff Writer For Neff, an era of glamour came first He was the architect to the golden age stars, creating elaborate European-styled homes such as Pickfair. His houses are still on the A-list, sheltering Pitt, Aniston and Keaton. Innovative as they were, Wallace…