How about Attending the Goofiest Breakfasts You’ll Ever Have Who does anything interesting on Hump Day? How about singing, exercising, telling silly jokes, having a hearty breakfast, and...
Joe Louis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and Much More See that house across the street? It may not look so fancy, but it may turn out that the people who built that also built the hotel down...
The Way It Might Have Been in the 2012 Presidential Election When GOP challenger Mitt Romney was about to derail Barack Obama’s reelection with running mate Marco Rubio, the president dumped Joe...
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...
When You Could Drive Behind the HOLLYWOOD Sign Nothing more than your car is a status symbol in Hollywood. No one asks what you do, or what are you wearing, as much as “What kind of car do you...
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...
Doing Yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Only while ‘Living in Hollywood’ can you attend a memorial service for a friend at a movie theater, and then take a friend to a movie at a memorial park....
In November voters will be able to remove councilmembers' influence beyond their own district lines, hopefully moving us closer to a system that reflects the best interests of Angelenos, NOT the...
The recent death of Ali MacGraw's ‘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...
Why Is That Cross Beaming into My Bedroom? As exciting as it sounds to be ‘Living in Hollywood,’ only those of us who live here really know what it's like. One day your neighbor wins an award...
As exciting as it sounds to be “Living in Hollywood,” only those of us who live here really know what it's like. One day the neighborhood is blocked off to have every famous star alive dressed...
“It is the only place in the world that grounds Marilyn's myth into history, and the U.S. and world’s history. It is the only physical reminder that remains of (her) life and death. Marilyn has...
Perhaps we are just tired of dictators, and we don’t want to sit through 2 hours and 38 minutes (or a day) to deal with another dictator. We tire of little men who have squeaky voices and want to...
He was a familiar face in movies and on TV before his breakout performance opposite Ali MacGraw in the 1970 blockbuster. But it was overshadowed by years of personal problems. Ryan O’Neal, the...
Movie stand-in Jameelah Elena Michl fell so madly in love with her film's beautiful director that she began stalking her — even brandishing a Glock — and when the director didn't return her...
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn...
I NEVER UNDERSTOOD the full extent of why my mother related so much to Jackie Kennedy until the former First Lady’s death. On the evening of May 19, 1994, my mother and I were at Jerry’s...
WHY DID PRISCILLA PRESLEY leave Elvis? Did the 14-year-old girl he fell in love with when he was 24 realize as she grew into a woman that they had little in common except for their daughter Lisa...
Britt Ekland opened her dressing room door and grabbed my arm. She stood in the doorway clad only from the waist down, while holding her blouse close to her chest and leaving little to my...
“The wig has gone mainstream and celebrates performance, creativity,” says Rebecca Sikora known professionally as Bebe Mcphereson, a former employee of the house, who bought the business and has...
By VICKI ABELSON Burt Young...brilliant actor, gifted fine artist, devoted father and grandfather, and a gentle, loving, attentive friend. I was so blessed to meet him, thank you, Candy, and get to...
The shoes from the film were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and recovered in 2018 by the FBI. The thief was sentenced Friday....
Her concert movie chronicles Swift’s highly successful Eras Tour, which included six performances at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Analysts have said more than $100 million in advance tickets have...
Actress Julia Ormond has filed a lawsuit accusing disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995 and then hindering her once-skyrocketing career. Julia Ormond, who...
Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The Writers Guild and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has...
Once Jerry Brown’s hangout, Lucy’s El Adobe opens its doors to the new favorite son. By Tony Castro Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News The story appeared January 8, 2006, but it is published with...
TOO EARLY FOR OSCAR nomination talk? Maybe not if you have seen “Barbie” and came away surprisingly stunned by actress America Ferrera’s incredible monologue about being a...
ON A PICTURE POSTCARD CALIFORNIA EVENING, a group of Tibetan monks in cardinal robes and gold undershirts traipsed across Melrose Avenue from the direction of Paramount...