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L.A. IN THE SHADOW OF RUBEN SALAZAR
I HAD BEEN IN LOS ANGELES only a few days when the pressures placed on Chicano journalists in this city first began to settle on me. Fittingly, it happened in a bar at the Ambassador Hotel, where I was living at the time, not far from the pantry where Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated.
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MARILYN’S GENIUS, FORGOTTEN AND FOUND
Marilyn was more than a cinematic icon; she was a strategist, an intellectual force navigating the treacherous labyrinth of male-dominated Hollywood in an era when women were often dismissed as ornamental.
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Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
Baseball used to be about “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” peanuts, Cracker Jack, and strategy you could chew on for nine innings. I
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The Sad, Sudden Passing of Lucy’s El Adobe Café Heiress Patty Casado
Lucy’s El Adobe Café heiress Patricia Casado is doing the unthinkable. She’s trying to resurrect her family’s restaurant facing a mountain of challenges that would make even the most seasoned restaurateur throw in the towel.
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MY LIFE AS MARILYN, MY DEAD OLDER SISTER
The LA Monthly interview with actress Catherine Hicks, who portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the 1980 TV feature Marilyn: The Untold Story as well as in the Arthur Miller play After The Fall and also Bus Stop on the stage By Justin Bozung ACTRESS CATHERINE HICKS made a solid career for herself in Hollywood but it was her unforgettable Emmy nominated role…
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RANDY NEWMAN: WHY I WROTE ‘I LOVE L.A.’
There are few songs that echo in L.A. quite like Newman’s winking civic anthem, which manages to be both sunny and subversive at the same time with its “big nasty redhead” cruising the boulevard. “Hey,” Newman protested, “I meant ‘nasty’ in the very best sense of the word.”
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COUNCILWOMAN NITHYA RAMAN CHALLENGES BASS IN MAYOR’S RACE
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman entered the race for mayor Saturday, challenging incumbent and political ally Karen Bass hours before the noon deadline for candidates to file paperwork for the June 2 primary.
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IS RICK CARUSO THE LAST BEST HOPE FOR SAVING LA?
Rick Caruso may not be the last best hope for saving Los Angeles, as some of his faithful followers insist, but he does offer a hope and a vision — and you can trust that you won’t read about him skirting politica, ethics laws and being carted off to prison or thereabouts like too many…
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MY FABULOUS LIFE AT THE BARN
One of Hollywood’s Most Significant Landmarks Still Stands In a city where they think nothing of knocking down Pickfair, bulldozing the Garden of Allah and destroying the streamline moderne Pan Pacific Auditorium, it’s almost quaint that the most significant building in Hollywood history is a nondescript barn. I gave tours at the Barn for a…
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MY LIFE IN THE PALISADES WITH ALI MACGRAW
My Life With Ali Then, just as quickly as she had entered my world, she vanished. The recent death of her ‘Love Story’ co-star Ryan O’Neal left us all with a nostalgic appreciation of the heartthrobs whose heartbreak ending sent the country out of theaters in tears to start the 1970s.
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