Hollywood

As we approach 2019, let us take a moment to brace ourselves for the oncoming onslaught of Manson Family “tributes” destined for the 50th anniversary…

Audrey Totter While most folks around Halloween want to revel in horror films and gore, I find myself acknowledging the fact that, well, I kinda…

Progress doesn’t always end in the best results. Take Hollywood. Once, this great movie industry was driven by women screenwriters like Anita Loos, Frances Marion,…

Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s film version of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye.’ Raymond Chandler wanted to call his second Philip Marlowe…

‘American Venus,’ Joe Coleman’s portrait of Jayne Mansfield The Girl Can’t Help It is Frank Tashlin’s sophomoric and wildly entertaining 1956 salute to the throbbing…

Artist Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960) is best known for his cover art for publications like Photoplay, the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Magazine. His work…

Bruce Springsteen was 24 when he wrote “Born to Run,” a bombastic, ambitious and successful endeavor to craft the rock-song equivalent of the Great American…

via Vinyl Maniac When this appeared in my Facebook feed, it took me a moment to realize it was a fake. It went down like…

I know where I would rather be right now: watching the Munsters at the Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 screaming teenagers. Just me, Yvonne De Carlo,…

Wowie Zowie! It’s the ultimate Frank Zappa fan’s stickiest wet dream. Buy–and live–in the great man’s former five-bedroom, 8000 sq ft home in the Hollywood…