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Cari Beauchamp is the author of "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood." She also edited and annotated "Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by the Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and co-wrote "Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival." Her most recent book is "Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s" and she is currently writing "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents," the story of Joe Kennedy's Hollywood years. She has also written documentary films, writes for Vanity Fair and recently won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholararship. In a previous life, she was Press Secretary to Governor Jerry Brown. She lives in West Los Angeles. Email
Director Michael Govan, with his actions today, says film isn't worthy of LACMA. As a film historian and museum member, that is blasphemy.
I travel a lot and I always love coming home to Los Angeles, but this was the first time I looked around in outright dismay.
Who made TW the cable monopoly for all of Los Angeles anyway? Cable rage hits the Westside.
What are they thinking? There is no place to rest your eyes.
As long as I can remember I have loved history. I find it both liberating and consoling to realize little...
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As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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