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THE DREAM THAT BROKE MY HEART: MY BRIEF, BEAUTIFUL, AND UTTERLY ABSURD LOVE AFFAIR WITH MILEY CYRUS
Miley Cyrus fell in love with me at Canter’s Deli, of all places, because where else would one find true love at dawn? The air smelled of pastrami and ambition. The fluorescent lighting cast a glow best described as “early morning mugshot”…
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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 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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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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WHY DO ALL FRENCHMEN THINK THE’RE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE?
Watching Emilia Pérez as soon as it was available to stream. It felt like watching a root canal. I did not recognize the Mexico in the film and the cartel life depicted on screen seemed straight out of bad TV novela at best. The picture struck me as juvenile—maybe something Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez agreed to…
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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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MY GRANDFATHER’S LAST CHRISTMAS
My grandfather’s last Christmas celebrated months before Christmas Day because he knew he was dying.
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THE GHOSTS OF LUCY’S EL ADOBE: A LOVE STORY IN TACOS AND TEARS
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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A 40-YEAR ANNIVERSARY, A SURPRISE MASS, AND A DASH TO DAN TANA’S
This Thanksgiving, I am especially grateful for my wife: for her grace, her humor, and her willingness to humor me—even when I insist on staying for mass.
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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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