Lana Turner

Thursday crash involving MTA bus snarls Arnold traffic

2013-01-10 09:54:46

A morning crash on Route 2 in Anne Arundel County involving an MTA bus and two vehicles sent five people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Maryland Transit Administration officials said. MTA spokesman Joe Sviatko said that the...

From the Evening Sun: 'Elizabeth Taylor: She's back in front of the cameras and the press'

1981-01-09 00:00:00

There is a line in "The Mirror Crack'd," one Kim Novak directs at Elizabeth Taylor, one that plays on Ms. Taylor's heft. It is one of the funnier lines in the movie, and Miss Taylor takes it well, both on and off the screen. "Of course, I didn't resent...

It took some time, but now I am a Taylor Swift groupie! (OK, a big fan)

2013-04-01 02:30:06

"LOSING HER AUDIO, but never her nerve!" writes Jon Caramanica in The New York Times about the recent Taylor Swift concert in Newark, N.J., at the huge Prudential Center. The rock critic, as I suppose he is called, then added of this superstar: "Ms....

Roseanne: Finally back where she belongs, on a weekly sitcom?

2013-02-08 02:30:06

"THE THING WOMEN have yet to understand is nobody gives you power. You just take it," said Roseanne Barr as she climbed the heights in Hollywood, taking power, and not apologizing. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT Rosanne Barr's return to network TV in a...

Divas que no cantan pero lo saben todo

2013-01-31 06:39:00

Wikipedia, que va camino a convertirse en el gran diccionario universal, dice que "diva" es el "nombre que se le asigna a las cantantes de �pera". Pero se queda muy corto, porque si se hiciera una encuesta colectiva sobre divas de la �pera, la mayor�a...

Don't Let Peplum Ruffle Your Fashion Choice

2013-01-11 06:10:06

Quick: when you see the phrase "Don peplums," do you think the second word should be capitalized because you assume it's a proper noun, as in Don Corleone? Do you, for example, think "peplum" is another word for baby food? Or do you read it as "pe-plum"...

A Second Look: 'Postman Always Rings Twice' films are noir standard

2012-11-24 10:00:00

A lean, mean tale of adultery and murder, James M. Cain's bestselling, once-scandalous 1934 novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is often considered a central text of noir fiction. It also has proved an eternally popular and durable template for the...

Celebrating Billy Strayhorn with a three-day soiree

2012-10-25 13:19:00

The centennial of the inimitable jazz composer Billy Strayhorn doesn't come around until 2015, but, in a way, the festivities will begin this weekend in the Chicago area. A three-day Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival organized by the Music Institute of...

Bond, James Bond, is 50 this year ... well, the movie franchise is, anyway

2012-09-12 21:55:07

"REMOVE THE exotic touches and what have you got? A dull, prosaic English policeman." That's what Sean Connery said, during the filming of "Goldfinger," in 1964. Sean was already growing weary of the character, and the constricting fame of 007. That...

Those summer nights: Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy

2012-08-21 21:55:07

"MAKE SOMEBODY happy today. Mind your own business," said Ann Landers. I suppose, being in the business I'm in, using such a quote at the top is rather contradictory, although naturally I like to hope I haven't been too big a busybody. I thought of...

From the archives: Chinese Theater @ 85

2012-07-23 21:55:08

Sid Grauman the genius and world's greatest picture house showman, the father of the $1.50 straight atmospheric film theater with a consistent policy along that line, is dedicating next week the dream of a life time, his $1,200,000 Chinese theater, in the...

Singer, actor Tony Martin dies at 98

2012-07-30 21:55:07

Tony Martin, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television and nightclubs from the Depression era into the 21st century, died of natural causes Friday evening at his West Los...

Lana Turner and John Garfield in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," 1946.

2012-11-21 16:15:09

Lana Turner 's icy elegance and poise made her one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions in more than 50 films. | Read more See more stars on the Hollywood Star Walk, the Los Angeles Times' virtual tour of the streets of Hollywood.

2012-07-09 11:08:00

The loudest noise surrounding New Yorker Ian Schrager's purchase of a certain hotel-restaurant on Goethe Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood was about what alterations he might make to the Pump Room, that legendary celebrity watering hole.

2011-12-28 13:07:38