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Restored 'Lola Montès' coming to West L.A., Pasadena
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMax Ophüls' 1955 "Lola Montès" revolves around the life and many loves of a beautiful courtesan and dancer, now destitute, who is forced to relive her exploits nightly at a low-rent circus in America. The poignant final scene finds Lola sitting in a...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Celebrity, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Movies
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Review: 'RocknRolla'
Special to The TimesGuy Ritchie's aggressively stylized, testosterone-addled movies careen from one steroidal encounter to the next. But in " RocknRolla," Ritchie dials down the pace, soaking up the atmosphere of sweat and stale beer around a revolving cast of low-level...Tags: W., Gerard Butler, Guy Ritchie, Organized Crime, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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City of Angels: Speak Easy
Of course everyone is entitled to an opinion—but you have to be a Bill Gates for that opinion to make it to prime time. Until now. From a three-story loft on Venice’s Electric Avenue, Lisa Eisenpresser and a band of couch-sleeping, jeans-wearing, self-...Tags: Adlai Stevenson, Intel Corp., Illinois, Startups, Ashton Kutcher
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Tweets on Cars: West L.A./valley area FREE...
Edmunds.comWest L.A./valley area FREE car show tomorrow a.m. My 70 Challenger RT will be there Link... -
Review: 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'
Special to The TimesWith the quiet, understated "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," Wayne Wang has come full circle, returning to the small, intimate films like "Chan Is Missing," "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart" and "Eat a Bowl of Tea" that established the Hong Kong-born...Tags: Movies, Wayne Wang, Colorado, Santa Monica, Encino
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'I Served the King of England'
The age-old question "What is art?" is again considered in the colorful and spirited documentary "Beautiful Losers," an absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success.
The film,...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Imperial and Royal Matters, Fort Lauderdale, West Hollywood, New York
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West Los Angeles residents on alert over what they call a mini-crime wave
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen Terri Tippit opened the door of her Rancho Park home last week, a man stood before her and introduced himself as part of a "literacy program." Then he asked if she was a teacher like her neighbor. Tippit, who was home alone, was suspicious -- how did...Tags: People, Crimes, Antonio Villaraigosa, Homes, Government
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Suspect Arrested in Westside Robberies
KTLA NewsSANTA MONICA -- A suspect under arrest in connection to a string of home invasion robberies that have targeted elderly women in West L.A. and Santa Monica has been identified. The suspect, Jeffery Wayne Langford, 53, of South Los Angeles, was arrested...Tags: Crimes, Los Angeles, Theft
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Vintage rail cars invigorate California train travel
Special to The Los Angeles TimesCarol Voss will never forget her first cross-country train trip, in the front seat of the Vista Dome on the new California Zephyr. That was in the summer of 1949, when automobiles and airplanes had yet to lure many transcontinental travelers off trains....Tags: California, Costa Mesa, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Tujunga, Transportation Industry
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A better day-labor market
The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote today on an ordinance that would help mitigate community concerns over men searching for work at large home improvement stores. This ordinance, which The Times opposed in an Aug. 10 editorial, deserves...Tags: Employees, Los Angeles, Labor Legislation, Health and Safety at Work, Unemployment
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'Contempt'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's 1963 "Contempt" opened at the old Academy Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in March 1965, without a press preview. Despite a scratchy print accidentally projected out of focus, the film was clearly a masterpiece, a poetic, deeply...Tags: Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Family, Brigitte Bardot
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'The Stone Angel,' 'Elsa and Fred,' 'Harold'
It's always a pleasure to watch Ellen Burstyn, even in a film as routine as "The Stone Angel," adapted by director Kari Skogland from Margaret Laurence's revered novel. As Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old widow recalling her past before being shipped off to a...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Veterans Affairs, California, People, Arkansas
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