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... and the quality has been patchy, at best - as this round-up of festive suggestions reveals. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY'S HOLLYWOOD YEARS Cari Beauchamp (Faber, 528pp) Cari Beauchamp is rapidly becoming the leading chronicler of American silent cinema. ... Comment?
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr: A life more thrilling than...
HE was not only one of the most famous Hollywood stars of the golden era but a war hero who received the highest awards for bravery and a man who counted the Royal Family among his many friends. Comment?
Yomigaeri no ChiI am the resurrection
... lightings. Theaters pull your latest film, your agency fires you and nobody wants to know you but your dog. In Hollywood, celebrity druggies often find professional redemption after going through rehab and confessing their sins to talk-show hosts. ... Comment?
Famous Show Business Fathers and Sons
... and the part went to Omar Sharif. Silent star Lon Cheney was called The Man of a Thousand Faces, and was one of Hollywood's greatest portrayers of grotesque characters in silent movies. His most celebrated roles included 1923's "The Hunchback of ... Comment?
... Ala. This coal-black-haired beauty of the 1920s was already an international movie sensation when she came to Hollywood. Developing a reputation as a vamp onscreen, she married and divorced twice and had no children. Negri went into hysterics at ... Comment?
You think you know Tiger Woods?
... too, that our generation didn't invent celebrity. It dates to the early 20th century, when the first mass-marketed Hollywood blockbusters made us believe that we really "knew" Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Rudolph Valentino. Not just as ... Comment?
Celebrate a Century Of Cinema on The American Riviera- 2010 Marks the ...
... filmmaking in Santa Barbara, where California's film industry originally planted roots before migrating south to Hollywood. Kicking off the milestone, It's Complicated, a new film from writer/director/producer Nancy Meyers, opens Christmas Day and ... Comment?
Jennifer Burns Goddess Of The Market
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... scene - Soviets in jackboots taking her family's money away - through her emigration to the U.S., her trip to Hollywood to demand her first job from Cecil B. DeMille himself, her lifelong dedication to a failed actor, her inability to be friends ... Comment?
The Early Scandals of Hollywood
What would Hollywood be without a scandal or two..... Can a city be born bad? Almost from its founding Los Angeles had a bad reputation. Comment?
Other families look good compared to Crawfords in Burien Little Theatre production
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... because they mistake Joan's house for Gary Cooper's house (they apparently live next door in this show about old Hollywood), Joan's temper reaches the boiling point. After all, she is the star of this 'show,' which is a live broadcast done by Hedda ... Comment?
... Woodrow Wilson's Treasury secretary, worrying about how to pay for World War I and discovering the wonders of Hollywood bookkeeping; about a young would-be actor, dragged into the U.S. Army, who discovers the German shepherd pup who would one day ... Comment?
WeHo Far Older Than Its 25 Years
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Once a no man's land, the couple square miles separating Beverly Hills and Los Angeles has become in the 21st century a veritable every-man's-land-the City of West Hollywood. Comment?
Peggy Lampman's Friday dinnerFeed: Roast turkey cobb salad
... and chopped them up finely. Thus, the Cobb salad was born. Word soon spread about this creation throughout Hollywood, quickly increasing its popularity. Ya gotta' love the Cobb--it's so accommodating to particular palates. In the first scene of the ... Comment?
Charlie Chaplin's Last Home in Geneva to Become a Museum
... from Chaplin's life and displays chronicling his rise from the music halls of his native London to stardom in Hollywood's silent movie era and beyond. "He was very happy here because he had a family life," Michael Chaplin said of the vintner's ... Comment?
Ever since Robert Rodriguez signed up for pharmaceutical trials to finance his 1992 "burrito western", El Mariachi , the romance of the no-budget success story has been catnip to the Hollywood PR machine. Comment?
John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield - longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the towel. Comment?
the Academy is - Movie Academy to Recreate Silent Era
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the annual Oscar awards, plans to present a program next week aimed at recreating the moviegoing experience of the silent era 100 years ago -- long before the advent of "Hollywood" films. Comment?
Spend Christmas in Tinseltown thanks to Burien Little Theatre
Burien Little Theatre is putting on the Hollywood glitz in more ways than one with the unconventional musical comedy "Christmas with the Crawfords," created by Richard Winchester and written by Mark Sargent. Comment?
Red Cliff is the most expensive movie ever filmed in China. Details: Rated R. Red Cliff , John Woo , Tony Leung Chiu Wai John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield - longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the towel. Comment?
Red Cliff: John Woo's killer instincts are back in action
... Red Cliff John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield - longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the towel. Beginning in earnest with an above-average Jean-Claude Van Damme programmer ( Hard Target ), Woo ... Comment?