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4cc3cefb657dbf93ec65650783ddb1e9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-03-ca-9182-story.html | Dance Host With the Most | Dance Host With the Most
The sight of Donald O’Connor hoofing it up in the new Walter Matthau-Jack Lemmon comedy, “Out to Sea,” is a joy to behold for fans of the legendary song-and-dance man.
O’Connor, who plays a dance host on a luxury cruise ship, has been entertaining audiences for seven decades. Beginning as a tod... |
6ad5fad60939824468299c0bc996ddb4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-06-ca-10013-story.html | The New Goldie Standard | The New Goldie Standard
Show-stopping dancer. Oscar-winning actress. Commercially savvy producer. And now, on a movie location under the overbearing gaze of a blazing Texas sun, Goldie Hawn is adding another credit to her show-biz resume: creative hairdresser.
“It just doesn’t look bad enough,” she sighs in a tone pitc... |
2e53ce27f6cdf255cb8ab47aec87e2e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-12-fi-12024-story.html | Island Records Fires at Least 12 Workers | Island Records Fires at Least 12 Workers
In a move that could foreshadow an overhaul of New York-based PolyGram Music Group, Island Records dismissed more than a dozen employees this week. The label, which releases music by such acts as U2 and the Cranberries, is not the only PolyGram company suffering from a dry spell... |
c08fe616cfab0958d76a638847969609 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-12-me-12097-story.html | Housing Project Residents Stage Protest | Housing Project Residents Stage Protest
More than 40 residents of the Pico-Aliso housing project in Boyle Heights staged a demonstration Friday in front of the Housing Authority near MacArthur Park to protest what they view as forced displacement from their homes.
The residents of the Eastside housing development, whic... |
5897e5cb33b9be0887271038de607dab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-16-fo-13035-story.html | How to Pho | How to Pho
In Vietnam, pho is mostly a restaurant food. Although some people prepare it at home, most prefer the ritual of going to noisy soup shops where friends and families gather to slurp on pho while chitchatting and gossiping.
Whether you choose to try this delicacy at the many noodle shops that have opened in So... |
9e097f21a9c314ba6d7a8b35705b6e33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-07-mn-51140-story.html | A Capital Move for Kazakhs | A Capital Move for Kazakhs
About the nicest thing anyone can think to say about this evolving new capital is that the howling winds roaring in from the steppe 330 days a year sweep out pollution and replace it with dust.
There are also the advantages of swarms of mosquitoes in summer and minus-40-degree days in winter ... |
14ad8bcd1dfdedd3e79e56148e8fd742 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-18-mn-55007-story.html | Jim Kepner; Pioneer Activist Founded Gay Archives in 1942 | Jim Kepner; Pioneer Activist Founded Gay Archives in 1942
Jim Kepner, founder and curator of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives and a pioneer gay activist, has died. He was 74.
Kepner died Saturday at Midway Hospital in Los Angeles after surgery for a perforated intestine, said Ernie Potvin, a member of the arc... |
b9d7303ec7cfadd1d3b503519b243654 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-23-mn-56894-story.html | A Bear of a Problem in Mammoth Lakes | A Bear of a Problem in Mammoth Lakes
Bertha lived under a house on Ridgecrest Drive. Loser lived under the porch of a nearby cottage--at least until she got too fat for the crawl space. Twinnie lives in the woods with her two offspring but takes many of her meals, uninvited, at the Summit Condominiums.
They’re everywhe... |
16cec64f4113fb5776445812be4ca9ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-28-mn-58575-story.html | Pens Mightier Than Swords in Authors’ War of Words | Pens Mightier Than Swords in Authors’ War of Words
The literary air here is momentarily free of barbed adjective and poisoned verb, but there is no peace, only a pause, in the reader-engrossing feud between Salman Rushdie and John le Carre, two of Britain’s most famous novelists.
Rushdie to Le Carre: “illiterate, pompo... |
8f535438cc2fe70332fdcf8ee6d86300 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-29-sp-58850-story.html | Mahone Leads With Mouth Before Curry Bout | Mahone Leads With Mouth Before Curry Bout
A relaxed and confident Ed Mahone of Los Angeles will take his 14-0-1 record into Monday night’s 10-round heavyweight fight at the Pond against Detroit’s Eric Curry. Mahone, 25, has won 14 consecutive fights by knockout and is ready to be taken seriously by the rest of the heav... |
f68bdaebd8ba223606c3dd94636adc7e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-30-mn-59146-story.html | Getty Center Is More Than Sum of Its Parts | Getty Center Is More Than Sum of Its Parts
There has never been anything quite like the Getty Center. Scheduled to throw open its doors to the masses Dec. 16--after a series of hot-ticket invitational celebrations and an international media blitz--the $1-billion, 110-acre arts complex in Brentwood conforms to no known ... |
3d79fae2979bf499fa105c06f7e96274 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-03-mn-38844-story.html | Mary Munday; Movie, TV Actress for Over 40 Years | Mary Munday; Movie, TV Actress for Over 40 Years
Mary Munday, 71, motion picture and television actress for more than four decades. A native of Glendale, she attended USC before beginning her acting career. She made her debut in the 1952 film “The Golden Hawk” and worked steadily through the 1990 motion picture “Ghost ... |
2f0a9cb94bbc76f99beb5ec814e81ece | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-06-ca-39759-story.html | Sarajevan’s Journey From Cinema Hero to ‘Traitor’ | Sarajevan’s Journey From Cinema Hero to ‘Traitor’
As the only Serbian director to attend the Sarajevo Film Festival, Srdjan Karanovic was understandably besieged by questions at his press conference. What was going on in Belgrade, who was working and what were they up to?
Karanovic rattled off half a dozen films curren... |
42cf0e2f382f4e0485679f3cdfb85512 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-06-mn-39971-story.html | Promise of Reducing Poverty May Be Found Inside Marriage Vows | Promise of Reducing Poverty May Be Found Inside Marriage Vows
Deep inside the latest Census Bureau report on the financial health of the nation’s families is a challenging response to an enduring question: What’s the most effective program for lifting Americans out of poverty?
The answer: marriage.
The word “marriage” ... |
121a4644ec90b463659b8928bf2e3b8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-13-he-42236-story.html | Mr. Public Health | Mr. Public Health
Don’t smoke, but do eat breakfast and get a good night’s sleep. Lay off the sauces, the booze, the in-between-meal Chee-tos and, for God’s sake, get off that couch!
These ABCs of healthy living are so ingrained in our minds--at least as ideals--it’s hard to believe they aren’t a given.
But not long ag... |
a524065e41b4f32efd8c99cbd1fc6c49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-13-me-42346-story.html | Slain Doctor Devoted Time to Cancer Patients, the Poor | Slain Doctor Devoted Time to Cancer Patients, the Poor
Friends and family of Dr. Jeanine R. Chalabian-Baliozian remembered her Sunday as an extraordinary person who wanted nothing more than to help people through her work as a surgeon.
“Her whole life, she worked saving everybody, and nobody could save her,” said Jacqu... |
0e3e0c92a42c2675dfdf338cffe79c0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-16-sp-43360-story.html | Green Awarded $45,000 in Tyson Case | Green Awarded $45,000 in Tyson Case
A New York jury Wednesday awarded boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in the civil lawsuit he filed against former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson over a street brawl in 1988.
The award to Green was for pain and suffering. The jury was unanimous in agreeing that Green was not entitled to any p... |
e135b85d17f9d21f87c97b4173727c0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-17-ca-43522-story.html | JACK HORNER HAS DIRK DIGGLER | JACK HORNER HAS DIRK DIGGLER
Welcome to the movies, but not the kind that advertise in family newspapers. Movies without development deals, agents or talky scripts, where crews are small and lighting is haphazard because the director understands “there are shadows in life.” Movies where the camera is always focused on ... |
7cf49481ab2e7bb29c832a0caea75b9e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-26-ca-46740-story.html | Getting Back in the Habit | Getting Back in the Habit
Jane’s Addiction’s new concert stage is a fanciful riot of tall banners, parasols and giant flowers, tribal masks and bent-pole gazebos. At the right is a garland-strewn deejay booth, at the left a curtained shower. Platforms that will be stationed throughout theaters where the band plays echo... |
931a7c8f227c788f9e44ca838f5b174f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-26-op-46853-story.html | Andrea Rich | Andrea Rich
What should be the role of the publicly supported Los Angeles County Museum of Art? Should it be a place for collecting and displaying a wide range of art objects covering a broad span of history and culture? Or should it focus more on outreach and education, making its collection, and art in general, more ... |
e1adfa4e31eeaaf791ef72459a0ffecc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-28-mn-47574-story.html | Scientologists’ Largest German Protest March Held in Berlin | Scientologists’ Largest German Protest March Held in Berlin
Speaking from a vast video screen, actor John Travolta told a mass rally of Scientologists here Monday that there is no excuse for government discrimination against religious bodies.
Singing and chanting, adherents from Germany, the United States and across Eu... |
b05efae30760e5cadfdb15cf865fc30a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-01-ca-27816-story.html | Hollywood’s New China Syndrome | Hollywood’s New China Syndrome
In director Jon Avnet’s upcoming film, “Red Corner,” Richard Gere portrays an American lawyer who travels to the People’s Republic of China to negotiate a massive telecommunications deal, only to find himself ensnared in a brutal and Kafkaesque judicial system after being framed for murde... |
b7dddf50f41e5e5a5ea36e25cb31ec38 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-06-mn-29465-story.html | Killer Who Froze Body Sentenced to Die | Killer Who Froze Body Sentenced to Die
John Joseph Famalaro, one of Orange County’s most notorious murderers, was sentenced to death Friday by a Superior Court judge who spoke of the terror that his victim, Denise Huber, must have felt during the final moments of her life.
“Just imagine what was going through her mind,... |
590d9f72c43c14df3dc7944dfe82c5db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-06-sp-29509-story.html | And Don’t Call Them Flo State, Either | And Don’t Call Them Flo State, Either
Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden, glib as ever, danced expertly around one of USC’s pet peeves this week--or was he needling?
“I’m excited about playing out there at Southern Cal--excuse me, Southern California,” Bowden said. “Southern California has such a great tradition, and sta... |
54a33eab380ef3a1fd342f892ead5279 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-07-mn-29827-story.html | A Brother’s Heartfelt Thunder | A Brother’s Heartfelt Thunder
Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl Spencer and younger brother of Princess Diana, swore a blood oath on her coffin Saturday to protect Princes William and Harry from the media, and laid claim to her family’s right to share their upbringing with their father, Prince Charles.
Spencer’s controll... |
474c105ec3514e4dbe5100f7f6f7c391 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-07-mn-29851-story.html | Diana Returns to Village in a Sad Homecoming | Diana Returns to Village in a Sad Homecoming
This is a different village from what it was in the days when the seventh Earl Spencer, grandfather of Diana, princess of Wales, was alive and presiding over the gargantuan grounds of the nearby Althorp estate--a little piece of which is now Diana’s final resting place.
“The... |
4999442762dbf5e9c365a999a796b64c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-11-me-31195-story.html | KLSX Fires Talk Show Host Over Office Scuffle | KLSX Fires Talk Show Host Over Office Scuffle
Riki Rachtman, the KLSX-FM (97.1) talk show host who faces a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly punching station colleague Doug Steckler at the office Monday, got his own one-two punch Wednesday.
He got fired. And the firing, Rachtman said from home, came without seve... |
77ef3bf9ba75cc2f4dbe3741b7f333f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-13-me-31749-story.html | 6 Arrested in Raid on Alleged Brothel | 6 Arrested in Raid on Alleged Brothel
A police raid at a home in Midway City has uncovered illegal immigrants forced to work as prostitutes to repay a $40,000 fee they owed for their transport from Asia, police said Friday.
“It’s like indentured servitude,” Westminster Police Lt. Bill Lewis said. “They owed their soul ... |
5c1931841042fa057cbd0a07bc487526 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-14-tv-31985-story.html | JOHN CORBETT PLAYS WITH THE PARANORMAL AS FOX’S ‘THE VISITOR’ | JOHN CORBETT PLAYS WITH THE PARANORMAL AS FOX’S ‘THE VISITOR’
Back in 1992, actor John Corbett was quoted in a newspaper article as saying, “I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.”
It would turn out to be an eerily prophetic statement. Today, the former “Northern Exposure” actor is playing the lead role in “The V... |
722d05aa302234d72751484fa9a74815 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-16-mn-32752-story.html | Weld Drops Bid for Mexico Post, Blisters Capital | Weld Drops Bid for Mexico Post, Blisters Capital
Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld gave up his fight Monday to become ambassador to Mexico, issuing a caustic, highly sarcastic attack on Washington and its politics as he bowed out.
“I asked President Clinton to withdraw my name from the Senate so I can go back t... |
855830d164dea706d2cc497e28dbe33c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-17-ca-33037-story.html | ‘The Game’ Spins Into David Fincher’s Control | ‘The Game’ Spins Into David Fincher’s Control
Moments before David Fincher is supposed to take the stage and field questions after a screening of his new PolyGram film, “The Game,” at the Directors Guild, the director eyes the crowded screening room and disappears, heading for the bathroom. When his return seems overdu... |
adf225f87ba45a76e23e031cb2e94791 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-17-fi-33095-story.html | Flour Is Family’s Bread and Butter | Flour Is Family’s Bread and Butter
Los Angeles was a small town when Capitol Milling first threw open its doors for business in 1831. Wheat grown in the San Fernando Valley was hauled by horse to Capitol’s site on the edge of Chinatown, where it was ground into flour for the city’s bakeries.
Today, Capitol Milling stil... |
985f6797dc784db0cea7123cc456bca8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-19-me-33954-story.html | Concert to Aid Native American Activist | Concert to Aid Native American Activist
Supporters of Native American activist Paul Skyhorse Durant are sponsoring a benefit concert in Ventura on Sunday to help him pay off a fine stemming from his arrest last year for possessing hallucinogenic cactus buds.
Durant was never charged with a crime, and the 250 pounds of ... |
b1b696d83ad388cf449302f211be6957 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-20-ca-34126-story.html | It’s Been a Life of Pride, Passion--and Defiance | It’s Been a Life of Pride, Passion--and Defiance
There was a time when Stanley Kramer was called, with some accuracy, “the most picketed producer in America.” From “Home of the Brave” (1949), a dramatic exploration of anti-black racism, through 1958’s “The Defiant Ones” and even “Inherit the Wind” in 1960, Kramer was a... |
2c6db44dcab1733f5cbfca842a81c60c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-22-he-34923-story.html | Alternative to Steroid Cream Effective in Fighting Eczema | Alternative to Steroid Cream Effective in Fighting Eczema
An ointment version of a widely used drug for transplant patients appears to be effective against eczema. Researchers say the medicine, a form of the drug known as tacrolimus or FK506, may offer an alternative to corticosteroid creams.
In a study in the Sept. 18... |
f4a82df1bfb2baaf256b5a27c0aeea3b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-23-mn-35268-story.html | Seagram to Buy USA Networks for $1.7 Billion | Seagram to Buy USA Networks for $1.7 Billion
Ending a bitter dispute between two of the entertainment industry’s most powerful moguls, the Seagram Co. agreed Monday to pay $1.7 billion to Viacom Inc. for its half share of the popular USA Networks.
By taking control of one of the top-rated and most widely distributed ca... |
d2cee79198a6e85d891cf178916999cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-27-fi-36563-story.html | 3 to Plead Guilty in Lab Fraud | 3 to Plead Guilty in Lab Fraud
The physician owner and two employees of a Whittier pharmaceutical-research laboratory have agreed to plead guilty to charges that they conspired to falsify test results used by the Food and Drug Administration to determine the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, U.S. Atty. Nora M. Man... |
7ea4146b3dc2b25ed660ea1da817e072 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-28-tm-37600-story.html | Biomedicine’s Bionic Man | Biomedicine’s Bionic Man
For a glimpse into the soul of David Baltimore, the curious need look no farther than the scientist’s official portrait, which he chose in lieu of the customary oil painting to hang outside the boardroom of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, here at the Massachusetts Institute of ... |
9dd0f8adabd1448c57ef483a02fe3154 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-30-mn-37736-story.html | Placentia Looking Up in Quest for Landmarks | Placentia Looking Up in Quest for Landmarks
This city is not exactly overflowing with architectural treasures, distinguishing monuments or industrial edifices.
It is mostly pastel and beige ranch houses and apartment buildings, quiet streets undulating around parks, and 46,000 residents drawn to a simple community wher... |
157358c14a4fd7bcff895936bc74c37f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-19-tr-40769-story.html | Israel’s Fun City | Israel’s Fun City
It was Friday afternoon in Tel Aviv. The Carmel Market was teeming with people shopping for Shabbat (the Sabbath), and I was stuck in the middle of it all, up to my ankles in chicken guts.
It was my fault. I heard the call of “Yalla! Yalla!” behind me but didn’t turn quickly enough to see the boy bear... |
824c174127fb7847d02be4fe43b1d149 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-24-mn-42638-story.html | Bir Narayan Chaudhuri, 141; Nepal’s Oldest Man | Bir Narayan Chaudhuri, 141; Nepal’s Oldest Man
Bir Narayan Chaudhuri, 141, honored as Nepal’s oldest man, although he could not prove his age. Chaudhuri, a regular smoker, never made it into the Guinness Book of Records because he had no birth certificate or other documentation of his age. But Nepal’s King Birendra rec... |
e7b3a2385b3453acbef85e27c1f68941 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-26-ca-42990-story.html | In Picture-Perfect Harmony | In Picture-Perfect Harmony
‘Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven goes back to his “Soldier of Orange” days when art was the primary goal. Jerry Goldsmith (“L.A. Confidential”) becomes an equal partner with the filmmaker rather than a composer-for-hire. Sidestepping endless studio meetings and decision-making by comm... |
b24f5ffd58968ddb6ed58354ceb7bfdb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-26-mn-43149-story.html | Brutal Pirates Had Their Good Points, Historians Say | Brutal Pirates Had Their Good Points, Historians Say
In the lore of Jolly Roger movies, Disneyland and Long John Silver, pirates were drunken, peg-legged bandits who made captives walk the plank and eat their own ears.
Now historians are taking a second look at the seafaring thieves, and learning many were not as bruta... |
2134cacee9ef20346ebf1fe5da98bf69 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-27-mn-43529-story.html | Chernobyl Anniversary Is Solemnly Observed | Chernobyl Anniversary Is Solemnly Observed
With solemn ceremonies and rallies, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus on Sunday marked the 12th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that continues to haunt the three former Soviet republics.
Ukrainian President Leonid D. Kuchma declared that his country would adhere to ple... |
0b81fb83646bb6a84bff76c23e981494 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-29-me-44140-story.html | OSHA Urges Bulletproof Glass to Protect Clerks | OSHA Urges Bulletproof Glass to Protect Clerks
Sometimes, Manjit Kaur feels like she has this target painted across the middle of her forehead. Things are so bad, she might as well hang a sign in the window of her Mid-City convenience store that says: “Take the Money. Please.”
Since she bought the 6-'til-Ten food mart ... |
a86791ac64e1e84078243f1026d9ba9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-07-ca-10791-story.html | Unveiling a Polished-Up ‘Bedknobs’ | Unveiling a Polished-Up ‘Bedknobs’
Blame it on Radio City Music Hall.
Back in 1971, Walt Disney Pictures had booked its lavish family musical “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” into New York’s famous movie palace. But Radio City issued a decree: The film had to be under two hours because it was to be packaged with the theater’... |
6ac2f997dd54fb420fec1a715a67c092 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-09-bk-11362-story.html | After Us, By Joseph Brodsky | After Us, By Joseph Brodsky
After us, it is certainly not the flood,
and not drought either. In all likelihood, the climate
in the Kingdom of Justice, with its four seasons, will
be temperate, so that a choleric, a melancholic,
a sanguinic, and a phlegmatic could rule by turns
three months each. From the standpoint of ... |
f6464c43ba95351df8261fce4aa0ddc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-11-mn-12089-story.html | Theater Impresario Accused of Financial Irregularities | Theater Impresario Accused of Financial Irregularities
Flamboyant theater impresario Garth Drabinsky and a top colleague were suspended Monday after “serious irregularities” were uncovered in the financial records of Livent Inc., one of Broadway’s top producers, now controlled by onetime Hollywood superagent Michael Ov... |
f4ab5ceaf81d4c473415fd7d14570a09 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-16-ca-13511-story.html | TALK ABOUT A BABY BOOM | TALK ABOUT A BABY BOOM
If a baby could talk, and he happened upon a toilet for the first time in his life, what would he say?
That was the rough premise of the six-minute animated short that the team of Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky and Paul Germain brought to Nickelodeon in 1989. At the time, the cable network was lookin... |
8b5917b8d1167ada86b0383875c9ad77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-16-ca-13551-story.html | At the Intersection of Flick and Sekula | At the Intersection of Flick and Sekula
While both Robbert Flick and Allan Sekula have worked here on and off since the ‘70s, the two artists have rarely intersected professionally. Flick, a USC professor, has long concentrated on Los Angeles cityscapes while Sekula, who teaches at California Institute of the Arts, has... |
7a80768fcfd93036c329090b5d9ee4c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-17-ca-13848-story.html | The Truth Behind Life and Death of Bruce Lee | The Truth Behind Life and Death of Bruce Lee
I was personally offended by Alison Dakota Gee’s article about my late husband, Bruce Lee (“Dragon Days,” Calendar, July 20). Purporting to commemorate the flourishing of his legacy 25 years after his death, The Times’ story sank to the depths of tabloid journalism in sensat... |
608098a8d2c46274f416fb02320f880f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-21-me-15131-story.html | Are Clinton’s Bombs Wagging the Dog? | Are Clinton’s Bombs Wagging the Dog?
Coming three days after the president’s unsatisfying apology to the nation, and on the same day as Monica Lewinsky’s return to the grand jury, the U.S. military strikes Thursday in Afghanistan and Sudan have skeptics asking: Are they truly a response to the Kenya-Tanzania bombings o... |
922ae933401bf97dc09c4d5a478788fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-24-ca-15963-story.html | New Line Gambles on Becoming Lord of the ‘Rings’ | New Line Gambles on Becoming Lord of the ‘Rings’
New Line Cinema has committed upward of $130 million to make the most ambitious and costly film project in its history, a trilogy of films based on “The Lord of the Rings,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic series of fantasy novels. The three films will be shot simultaneously ove... |
2393825e64c83af287477b2c5500bc47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-25-mn-16445-story.html | Kachina-Doll Feud Divides Two Tribes | Kachina-Doll Feud Divides Two Tribes
In the rough and tumble world of cheap souvenirs, it’s getting tougher and tougher to compete. Here in the Southwest, Native American artifacts reign supreme.
In bygone days, visitors would purchase real arrowheads and authentic clay pots. Today, tourists drive off in station wagons... |
e2e304b477b806802db19684e411d8b3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-26-fo-16481-story.html | Cheese With Pie Is English | Cheese With Pie Is English
In “Granny Smith and the Wedge” (Forklore, July 22), you ask, “How did we start doing this [eating cheese with apple pie]?” as if it were an American prerogative.
In 1800-something, my parents lived in Durham, a cathedral city in the north of England, where the practice of fusing dessert and ... |
adc88a8d7f3ec45672c565c753961408 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-27-ca-16827-story.html | Sublimely Korean (and Hot, Too) | Sublimely Korean (and Hot, Too)
“This is one of the finest things I ever put in my mouth,” raved a friend I took to Jeon Ju. Of course, he’s a Korean food fanatic, ravenous for anything with garlic and the Korean pickled vegetables called kimchi. What we were eating--fried pork with kimchi--was awfully good by any stan... |
931d05912a1b41c4f853fbc941b4681c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-30-ca-17800-story.html | East Coast? West Coast? No, Try the Mississippi | East Coast? West Coast? No, Try the Mississippi
For years, rap record buyers have seemed as concerned with an artist’s hometown as with the quality of the music. If rappers didn’t claim a New York or L.A. ZIP Code in their rhymes, odds were that most listeners would simply dismiss them.
But that’s changing rapidly. Jer... |
076d4a51c52e7d10e32afe8160846778 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-30-me-17982-story.html | Woodland Hills Orange Grove Bears a Special Kind of Fruit | Woodland Hills Orange Grove Bears a Special Kind of Fruit
The sun is drying away the morning haze in Woodland Hills, giving itself a clear view of Ann Bothwell’s bit of living history. It’s burnishing the dark green leaves of the 1,987 trees and settling in the pores of the hard infant fruit.
Thus begins another day in... |
4858d7c1597c15a15313a62e02ea5c48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-04-me-50536-story.html | Police Panel’s Leader Admits to Anonymous Mailings | Police Panel’s Leader Admits to Anonymous Mailings
For weeks, prominent police reform experts, particularly those invited to testify before the City Council and charter reform commissions, have been the targets of a mysterious, anonymous mailing campaign designed to enhance the Los Angeles Police Commission’s image.
On... |
56b735a604346ae12a1424dfbbdc1b96 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-08-fi-51776-story.html | Sony Forms New Movie Division | Sony Forms New Movie Division
Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment said it’s forming a new division to distribute about six low- to medium-budget genre and specialized movies a year.
The label, called Screen Gems, will release films that fall between Sony’s more mainstream Columbia Pictures division and its Sony Pi... |
51fd59a0a8b4ae5a9a48f230d8d24321 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-13-me-53632-story.html | Lord Lew Grade; British Film, TV Mogul | Lord Lew Grade; British Film, TV Mogul
Britain’s flamboyant film and television entrepreneur Lord Lew Grade has died at age 91, apparently as a result of heart failure, British media reported Sunday.
Grade made his name producing such worldwide television hits as the epic “Jesus of Nazareth” and the zany “Muppet Show,”... |
2e072ba7f2f4bb94671674bd87b6aea4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-13-mn-53751-story.html | Children’s Author Dared to Depict Multiracial World | Children’s Author Dared to Depict Multiracial World
Long before multiculturalism was trendy, her children’s books featured cherubic white, black and Asian faces. When it was unknown in the trade for children’s authors to receive anything but a modest lump sum for their work, she garnered a contract for royalties. And w... |
19d600c1ff7079e3a837faed0e8961f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-15-mn-54191-story.html | Norman Fell; Veteran Character Actor | Norman Fell; Veteran Character Actor
Norman Fell, a longtime character actor who played the irascible landlord Stanley Roper on the television sitcom “Three’s Company”, died Monday of cancer. He was 74.
Fell died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, said Stan Schneider, his business manager... |
8980992196a1613a2871ca645c4bc793 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-23-cl-56688-story.html | Keeping an Eye Out | Keeping an Eye Out
Spend a lot of time at work worrying whether you left the coffee pot on back home? For less than $400, you can start checking up on yourself.
San Diego-based Moonlight Products Inc. recently introduced a remote computer camera, the FoneCam, which captures images similar to a 35-millimeter camera. The... |
9e4b2e2fcfe73172c6af453ed88550df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-24-me-57202-story.html | Gingrich Was Right About Orphanages | Gingrich Was Right About Orphanages
Four years ago last month, Newt Gingrich set the tone for his contentious House speakership and probably set the stage for his resignation when he dared to suggest that some welfare children would be better off in private orphanages. In making his off-the-cuff comments, he ignited a ... |
4e9fd17af8a9dcb7b29c7efbb69c0dd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-27-re-57952-story.html | How to Avoid Singing the Awful-Roommate Blues | How to Avoid Singing the Awful-Roommate Blues
Question: Do you have suggestions for roommate screening? I have always had good luck until recently, when I had a really nasty and expensive experience. I am especially interested in ways to protect my financial interests. My last roommate left owing me hundreds of dollars... |
257798484adc12bc0da9ddc524634f67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-27-sp-58125-story.html | Louisville States Case Against Kentucky | Louisville States Case Against Kentucky
Many people were surprised by Louisville’s upset of No. 3 Kentucky on Saturday. None of them played for Louisville.
“There was no doubt in my mind we could beat them,” forward Tony Williams said after the Cardinals defeated the Wildcats, 83-74, at Louisville’s Freedom Hall. “We a... |
f46034c693b966b7b62d20a144843a1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-28-he-58197-story.html | Vitamins Are TV Host’s Secret Weapon | Vitamins Are TV Host’s Secret Weapon
“I tell you what you may not know, and I doubt most people know,” Tony Brown said at the top of our phone conversation, “is that I’m a serious advocate of vitamin and mineral therapy and I have been for the last 25 years.”
That was Brown’s response when I asked him if he ever sweats... |
0f638d606322e0df058dd89fe054af57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-05-mn-15719-story.html | Armenian Hard-Liners Consolidate Control | Armenian Hard-Liners Consolidate Control
Armenian politicians opposed to compromise to settle a 10-year-old territorial dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan consolidated their hold on power Wednesday by forcing out the last of the country’s moderate leaders.
A day after President Levon Ter-Petrosyan resigned in the face... |
5369f7c2cf6e8ce91c3fe6bde097e2b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-11-fo-17744-story.html | The Crimson Door Closes | The Crimson Door Closes
A few years back, I had lunch with Madame Sylvia Wu, the restaurateur who for 37 years has held fast to her vision of Chinese food filtered through the lens of Continental cuisine, and got a glimpse of the respect she commands in her exclusive, celebrity-conscious world.
It must have been a Mond... |
08516b398c3f278e00b8219818d715cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-11-sp-17898-story.html | Weighty Issue | Weighty Issue
To hear the tabloids tell it, Japan is deeply shocked by the news that American-born sumo champion Akebono will marry a 25-year-old Japanese-American woman who is expecting his child.
“Pregnant! Beautiful 25-Year-Old Half,” screamed the headline in the Nikkan Sports newspaper Tuesday, announcing the 516-p... |
bc22bdf213d2f448c76e5c9c9c87b963 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-13-me-18637-story.html | Separating Public Lives From Private Ones | Separating Public Lives From Private Ones
The [magazine] Pall Mall in a recent editorial, originated a very happy phrase, namely, that, “men are not built in water-tight compartments,” so that they can be sound in one part and not in another. Now the facts of life allow that this is precisely the way men are built, the... |
19719be84a71b94883f589b8e039320a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-13-me-18643-story.html | House Dismisses Dornan Challenge of Sanchez’s Win | House Dismisses Dornan Challenge of Sanchez’s Win
The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to dismiss the election challenge filed against Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), then defeated a Republican attempt to tighten voter registration procedures to prevent voting by noncitizens.
Rejection of the election challen... |
e1684da32b201aa9afaf189d3a63482b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-15-ca-19235-story.html | A Woolf at Her Door | A Woolf at Her Door
It happens. A forceful person with unfinished business in this world dies and comes back in someone else’s body. You do not have to be gaga to believe this. You simply have to believe that the creative act has the power to make a person immortal. Prove it?
I went to London to meet Virginia Woolf, wh... |
9b05f36b8467ac2d243dd0acee69e885 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-16-he-19704-story.html | Gala AIDS Fund-Raiser Is Sedate but Still Starry | Gala AIDS Fund-Raiser Is Sedate but Still Starry
Perhaps it’s a sign of maturity, but AIDS Project Los Angeles’ Commitment to Life benefit has simmered down from being a passionately intense, megastar-driven evening to something more sedate.
Thursday’s 10th fund-raiser was a good solid show. It’s still one of the year’... |
d7a3e8787fb7afdfe46c14e1c9619f7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-ca-21337-story.html | Newfound Fame for ‘Singer’s’ Grandma | Newfound Fame for ‘Singer’s’ Grandma
She performed in New York’s Yiddish theater and taught drama for 30 years around Los Angeles. But nothing in her life prepared Ellen Albertini Dow for her scene-stealing role as a hip-hop granny in “The Wedding Singer.”
In the film, Dow plays Rosie, a free-spirited old lady who grab... |
34e37d7dfb2a921e69211b6b25ff01c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-mn-21408-story.html | Judge Acquits Rural Doctor of Murder of Infant Patient | Judge Acquits Rural Doctor of Murder of Infant Patient
The unusual prosecution of a Northern California doctor charged with the murder of an infant patient ended abruptly Friday when a judge said authorities failed to show that the physician had acted criminally.
The case against Dr. Wolfgang Schug has outraged the med... |
0718979bd466595b0aab45ce9408cea4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-mn-21409-story.html | Chasing a Dream and the River | Chasing a Dream and the River
“Worry is interest paid on a debt you may never owe.”
--Eric Jackson
*
EJ does not often spout his philosophy, he prefers to live it. You seldom hear him go on about relishing the moment, the journey being the reward, but look at him: traveling the mountain back roads from one remote river... |
eb92e5c2b8a154d45d646e4c029f8979 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-mn-21412-story.html | Study’s Advice to Husbands: Accept Wife’s Influence | Study’s Advice to Husbands: Accept Wife’s Influence
Husbands, forget all that psychobabble about “active listening” and “validation.”
If you want your marriage to last a long time, the newest advice from psychologists is quite simple: Be willing to do what your wife says.
A widely recommended form of marital relationsh... |
addf58f4352424c8cfb95d45547c1d36 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-mn-21430-story.html | Suicide Linked to Heaven’s Gate | Suicide Linked to Heaven’s Gate
A former Heaven’s Gate cultist, dressed like the 39 cult members who killed themselves in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., last year, has been found dead in the Arizona desert in an apparent suicide.
Alerted by his daughter, who had received a note from him, authorities found the body of Charles... |
656cf6c286f2f565ff6f7d776fc75fdd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-22-bk-21806-story.html | VICTOR HUGO.<i> By Graham Robb</i> .<i> W.W. Norton: 682 pp., $39.95</i> | VICTOR HUGO.<i> By Graham Robb</i> .<i> W.W. Norton: 682 pp., $39.95</i>
In March 1885, there was great excitement in France. It had been reported that the French army had suffered a severe defeat in Indochina. Prime Minister Jules Ferry was blamed for this supposed disaster, and his government was voted out by a noisi... |
db5eaf10b72507b9d9b8c1d9264f9f79 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-22-ls-21662-story.html | The Tracey Papers | The Tracey Papers
Where other people see burglars under the bed, Tracey Ullman sees possibilities.
Take the Beverly Hills Madam’s bed. Please.
“I love that she kept money underneath her bed,” Ullman says, licking her creative chops. “She never gets up all day. If she ever has to get out of bed, it’s like, ‘Dammit, I’ve... |
fd8d7e5643d19d4cb9e0d7b99146a30a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-24-ls-22303-story.html | The Art of Living | The Art of Living
Steadying his right elbow on his left wrist, Richard Bunkall dips a long, thin brush into umber paint and applies it to the big canvas. Then he backs off in his motorized chair--taking care not to run over William, the faithful golden retriever always at his side--and scrutinizes his painting.
The art... |
a7bf9ec4a0de3c979737e5ace50cb2c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-02-ca-4190-story.html | Searching for Truth in Van Sant’s ‘Pink’ | Searching for Truth in Van Sant’s ‘Pink’
When River Phoenix died in 1993--of four doses of heroin and eight doses of cocaine, according to biographer John Glatt--few outside his family were more aghast than Gus Van Sant. The director, whose films are about outcasts casting about for alternative families, had formed one... |
cba2e12b5af7ae10e9f339772e06010f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-04-ca-4715-story.html | Robert Evans’ Latest Remake | Robert Evans’ Latest Remake
When Robert Evans thinks about his life--its dizzy highs and devastating lows--the 67-year-old movie producer is confident of one thing: The saga has all the makings of a great motion picture.
Evans does more than muse about this. In the private editing room of his lavish Beverly Hills estat... |
95a679da49bb57ef90010bd7f8d728ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-15-ca-8364-story.html | Stylish ‘Prey’ Hunts for New Species, Plots | Stylish ‘Prey’ Hunts for New Species, Plots
The new ABC series “Prey” strives hard for the inky, mysterious, foreboding sci-fi noir look and tone of a major hit on rival Fox. You know this isn’t “The X-Files,” though, when a scene pops up with Dr. Sloan Parker--the brilliant, all-business DNA scientist investigating a ... |
59ae2b1bab59438bb8f32e5dc3af281d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-19-mn-9950-story.html | Robert C. Townsend; Former Avis President | Robert C. Townsend; Former Avis President
Robert C. Townsend, 77, former Avis president and author of the bestseller “Up the Organization.” As head of Avis Rent-a-Car from 1962 until ITT Corp. acquired it in 1965, Townsend took the company from one that lost $3 million a year to one that made $2.8 million in profit. He... |
a0579550fd7f3055689b7bdb48631466 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-22-me-10998-story.html | Supporters to Take Vigilant Stance on Abortion Rights | Supporters to Take Vigilant Stance on Abortion Rights
A stereotype that grates on me is the conviction by some that anybody who opposes abortion is a right-wing nut or anti-feminist. I don’t buy it.
On the other hand, it distresses me to hear abortion opponents demean the character of those who are abortion rights advo... |
d944a65e2e38eb0747555e1cfed0a71a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-23-ca-11098-story.html | O’Toole Lends a Needed Spirit of Dry Wit to ‘Phantoms’ | O’Toole Lends a Needed Spirit of Dry Wit to ‘Phantoms’
There’s much that’s conventional about “Phantoms,” a Dean Koontz tale of supernatural terror, but it does develop lofty intellectual ambitions and boasts a dry, witty performance by Peter O’Toole that lifts the level of the film beyond the routine. It should fill t... |
a4e7d63a55c27fccf256ca301d63ff98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-29-mn-13171-story.html | The Twisted World of a ‘Straight Edge’ Gang | The Twisted World of a ‘Straight Edge’ Gang
Two years ago, Clinton Colby Ellerman announced a shift that made his parents sigh with relief: He’d sworn off alcohol, drugs, smoking--even sex--and taken up the cause of animal rights.
Never mind that he’d also had crossed M-16 assault rifles tattooed on the back of his hea... |
8f75893fe57cb25bec1ea41cca592718 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-04-hm-578-story.html | ‘Psychic Readers’ Have a Future | ‘Psychic Readers’ Have a Future
By the early 1900s, it was possible to get a “psychic reading” from mechanical fortunetellers at penny arcades.
The machines featured lifelike figures displayed in glass boxes. After you dropped a coin in the slot, the exotic figure would appear to breathe, blink, nod and then turn and h... |
c2030508069e5a9e847aa45b2a458f49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-10-me-2384-story.html | Unemployed Lawyer Solved Disappearance of Writer | Unemployed Lawyer Solved Disappearance of Writer
An unemployed attorney with an engineering degree and a taste for true crime novels is the mysterious armchair detective who on a hunch led authorities to a section of the California Aqueduct where divers recovered what is believed to be the body of Gary Devore, the scre... |
8af3f812cd446afde698e138a4d93a4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-12-me-3020-story.html | Prosecutor Still Drawing Flak as Execution Nears | Prosecutor Still Drawing Flak as Execution Nears
For 15 years, condemned killer Thomas M. Thompson and his accomplice have given ever-changing accounts of the 1981 slaying of Ginger Fleischli. But on the eve of Thompson’s execution, it’s the prosecutor’s conflicting versions of the crime that have some legal experts de... |
ef19864e974e7d69eeb92fc6d299d757 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-15-mn-3919-story.html | Inmate Said Goodbyes, Then Died | Inmate Said Goodbyes, Then Died
Thomas Thompson fought the state of California for 17 years to stay alive.
Strapped to a gurney inside San Quentin prison’s death chamber early Tuesday, poison trickling into his veins, Thompson did not seem quite ready to give up.
He craned his neck to peer out the windows of the prison... |
d2856425c6af81e0972aade8dffbb8c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-17-mn-4544-story.html | Fairy Tale Ending to a Real Disney Story | Fairy Tale Ending to a Real Disney Story
Six years before Mickey Mouse made his debut in “Steamboat Willie,” there was “Little Red Riding Hood"--Walt Disney’s first animated work, a seven-minute silent cartoon that the 21-year-old completed while struggling as a commercial artist in Kansas City.
It was 1922 and the beg... |
c1da01fd6ba70732d6177a20e0385937 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-17-mn-4559-story.html | In Memory of Slain Soccer Player, Boys Set Their Goals | In Memory of Slain Soccer Player, Boys Set Their Goals
Even though their team did not make it past the first round of competition, this year’s World Cup was a triumph for Colombians. Fans won because soccer became fun again.
For the last four years, the World Cup had been yet another reminder of the lawlessness and vio... |
93efe21a51075b1b111de07ccbb2148e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-17-mn-4582-story.html | Jury Awards $30 Million to Brothers Molested by Priest | Jury Awards $30 Million to Brothers Molested by Priest
The Catholic Diocese of Stockton was ordered Thursday to pay $30 million to two brothers molested by a parish priest who had a history of abusing children.
A civil jury awarded $24 million in punitive damages and $6 million in compensatory damages to Joh and James ... |
c45626e285a06eccce988dcb2613b9eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-22-fo-5854-story.html | Granny Smith and the Wedge | Granny Smith and the Wedge
One of the most beloved American dessert traditions is warm apple pie with a big wedge of sharp Cheddar. There are restaurants that even bake a slice of cheese onto the crust, so you’re guaranteed your serving of cheese with your pie.
Europeans are often astonished by the whole idea of cheese... |
b6e2c97141305407ea0870b9dd20c9d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-23-ca-6185-story.html | Parachute Express Drops In With ‘Looney’s’ Tunes Kids Will Love | Parachute Express Drops In With ‘Looney’s’ Tunes Kids Will Love
Audio
Doctor Looney’s Remedy. Parachute Express. Trio Lane Records. CD: $12.98; cassette: $9.98. (888) HI-5-IOUS. One of children’s music’s top groups offers a creative, engaging new collection of original play songs and songs that speak to a child’s heart... |
6f430dcc404fab87399575ed92032cc1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-26-op-7271-story.html | Drug War | Drug War
* Kudos to Robert Scheer for his overview of the futility of our current drug abuse efforts in general and those of the drug czar in particular (Column Left, July 21). We are all concerned about drug abuse in our families and our society. But drug czar Barry McCaffrey, an ex-general, has become obsessed with t... |
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