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29 April 2011

Last Remaining Seats: a quarter-century young

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Lots of anniversaries this season of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s fun-in-the-city program, The Last Remaining Seats. [...]

30 September 2010

Tony Curtis, forever young

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Tony Curtis, a real movie star who lived and loved in old Hollywood, died today. [...]

1 July 2010

Second star to the right …

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The beautiful silent film version of “Peter Pan” (1924) at the Orpheum Theater came care of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Last Remaining Seats.” Maestro Robert Israel was at the Wurlitzer. [...]

16 May 2010

Even in 1924 Peter Pan wouldn’t grow up

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arts•meme is looking forward to the June 30 screening of PETER PAN (1924) at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. [...]

11 June 2009

Liza with a Z at “Last Remaining Seats”

To sit in the faded remains of downtown’s glamorous vintage theaters, chock-a-block with an excited, engaged, clapping, laughing, appreciative audience, watching classic films as they are meant to be projected is a fantastic experience. That’s the Last Remaining Seats. [...]

4 July 2008

Girl Power

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Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are giant amazons in Howard Hawks’s comic masterpiece, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), projected on the humongous screen of the vintage Los Angeles Theater (1931) on Broadway in downtown L.A. in last summer’s Last Remaining Seats. [...]