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20 February 2011

James Dean, moody, on location in Griffith Park

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A yummy new book “Location Filming in Los Angeles,” written by arts·meme pal, Marc Wanamaker in collaboration with Karie Bible and Harry Medved, provides a delicious historic photo-tour of location shooting all around our fair city, including a rare shot of James Dean, filming “Rebel Without a Cause.” [...]

23 February 2010

Uncle Carl’s two-bit boxed lunch

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Carl Laemmle, the entrepreneur/founder of Universal Pictures, was not just a pioneer of filmmaking. He augmented studio revenues by allowing spectators to filmmaking, which had great appeal in Los Angeles in the ‘teens. [...]

1 April 2009

Theodore Kosloff, ballet instructor

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Was Theodore Kosloff a fine ballet instructor? Malcolm McCormick, co-author of the 20th century dance history book, “No Fixed Points,” says: “Kosloff was sending dancers to New York in the 1950s. They arrived strong and rigorously trained — they had been required to wear weights on their angles to develop strength.” [...]