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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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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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Finding Novelty in the Lifestyle of Our Town’s Jay Gatsby
Like Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, I live directly across the street from the exclusive turf of another extravagantly wealthy businessman — Rick Caruso’s Palisades Village shopping center — so I’ve had the opportunity to watch this contrasting lifestyle story develop from the beginning. By BOB VICKREY (aka NICK CARRAWAY) AS I WALKED…
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Cesar Chavez in Excelsus
Remembering the Chicano Civil Rights Leader ‘I will forgive them, but I will also keep fighting them with non-violence, with justice and with human dignity — and you must do the same,’ said Chavez. ‘For the moment we stoop to their tactics, the moment we take the law into our own hands, that will be…
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What Cinderella’s Showing Means
Newcomer Ysabel Jurado’s 1st-Place Finish Rocks Los Angeles council District 14 Race For progressive policy advocates, results at the local level like Jurado’s win in what could ultimately become a historic upset may hold some of the most valuable insights on national politics so far in 2024. By HANS JOHNSON THEY WERE BRAVE WORDS. WHEN…
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Is Rick Caruso the Last Best Hope for Saving LA?
Billionaire shopping mall magnate Rick Caruso is stepping out of the political shadows with a new plan to help swing-seat Democrats retake the House in 2024. 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…
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Cinderella Steals the Thunder
Could De León Be Facing Tenant Rights Attorney Jurado? On their way to ousting the embattled city councilman in the 14th District who refused to resign amid scandal, his two most formidable challengers self-destructed and wilted — and Ysabel Jurado has not only moved into the runoff in November but has also overtaken de León.…
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My Life 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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Nithya Raman and the Making of a Sanctuary City
WITH DEGREES FROM HARVARD AND MIT and the charismatic charm of a Bollywood star, Nithya Raman could have stepped out of Indian cinema. Instead her young tenure on the Los Angeles City Council has been like a page out of Ghandian politics.
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The Last Best Days of Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe
The famous but now shuttered Lucy’s El Adobe Café in Hollywood holds a special place in California pop culture where the author met his adoptive and extended LA family that included Governor Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt.