Elizabeth Taylor

Love, Actually: Our 2013 Couples Issue

We Miss You, Brett Sommers!

Chateau Marmont to Lindsay Lohan: Be Out by Noon, Never Come Back

On July 31, Lindsay Lohan was given until noon the next day to gather up all her crap from Suite 33 at West Hollywood's luxurious Chateau Marmont -- the Elizabeth Taylor jewels, the Sam Magid jewels, the steaming pile of cigarette butts -- and find someplace else to crash pro-bono. A stern letter f ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Reportedly Found Unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey

ABC7 is reporting that Lindsay Lohan "was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey." Paramedics reportedly arrived around 10:15 a.m. She's been filming "Liz & Dick" in the area, and was involved in a car crash along the PCH last week. Alcohol was later repor ... More >>

Was James Dean Gay? 'Joshua Tree, 1951' Takes an Unblinking Look at Legendary Actor

On Thursday, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, a stylized, intriguing film about James Dean before he becomes a major movie star, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival. Los Angeles-based and openly gay director Matthew Mishory, who examines Dean's gay leanings, talked with ... More >>

A $100 Cocktail: The Beverly Hills Hotel Turns 100 Years Old

One of L.A.'s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special "These Walls are Talking" cocktails, available at the hotel's off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Be ... More >>

Cholafied: What If Your Favorite Celebrities Wore Chola Makeup?

You say you're sick of the what I really do for a living memes. And shit people say is so 2011. Well, we've got the next viral time-suck for you. Up pops the SoCal-based Cholafied website, a genius rendering of celebs in chola-style makeup: Surprisingly high eyebrows and dark, clown-like lip-liner ... More >>

Carrie Fisher

You say you're sick of the what I really do for a living memes. And shit people say is so 2011. Well, we've got the next viral time-suck for you. Up pops the SoCal-based Cholafied website, a genius rendering of celebs in chola-style makeup: Surprisingly high eyebrows and dark, clown-like lip-liner ... More >>

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Weegee at MOCA to L.A. Art's Equivalent of The Wire

This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor, Auctioned: 6 Best Items Up For Sale This Month, Via Christie's and Profiles in History

The $50,000 to $75,000 presale estimate of Elizabeth Taylor's dressing room trailer -- used on the set of Cleopatra and set to be auctioned at Profiles in History's upcoming "Icons of Hollywood" auction of memorabilia Dec. 15-17 -- seems low to M.G. Lord, author of the new book The Accidental Femini ... More >>

Mary Anna Pomonis' 'In Brio' at Annie Wharton L.A. Shows How Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend

A few years ago, artist Mary Anna Pomonis went through a painful divorce. She found that when she took off her diamond wedding ring for good, it was also as though she were shedding a large part of her social status as a woman. She felt empty and powerless without the rock on her hand, and she even ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: Frank DeCaro Goes from The Daily Show to Peter Falk's Pork Chops A Recipe

​Sure, there are plenty of cookbooks out there written by chefs or celebrity chefs or home cooks or people who somehow cook things for a living. But who needs kitchen experience to write a cookbook when you've been the movie critic on The Daily Show. Which is what Frank DeCaro, author of The D ... More >>

'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem

© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me.​ The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor's FBI Files Released, Reveal Extortion Attempts, Creepy Letters

Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor.​The FBI released its files on late actress Elizabeth Taylor today following a flurry of Freedom of Information Act requests from the media. Blogger Michael Petrelis appears to be the first to pick up the release and notes that much of what's in the files pertains ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor.​The FBI released its files on late actress Elizabeth Taylor today following a flurry of Freedom of Information Act requests from the media. Blogger Michael Petrelis appears to be the first to pick up the release and notes that much of what's in the files pertains ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Liz Taylor, Branagh’s Shakespeares

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

Strippers, junkies, mummies? Classic

Elizabeth Taylor E-Book to be Published by Vanity Fair: Too Soon?

Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor gets her first posthumous book.​It's never too soon to capitalize on a fallen angel. At least, that is, if you're Vanity Fair magazine. The publication announced this week that it's publishing a book about Elizabeth Taylor. And, yeah, it's coming at you quick. Bec ... More >>

West Hollywood City Hall Unconvinced to Name Street After AIDS Activist Elizabeth Taylor?

Movie star and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor​West Hollywood City Hall appears unconvinced that the gay mecca should name a street after movie star and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor, according to WeHo News. The online newspaper reports that none of the City Council offices "reported the 'ca ... More >>

Will West Hollywood Name A Street After Movie Star and AIDS Activist Elizabeth Taylor?

HIV/AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor​West Hollywood City Council members are known for their dedications, proclaiming such things as "Ozzy Osbourne Day," "Slash Day," and the list goes on. Those rock legends are great (both of them happen to be gay-friendly, by the way), but WeHo council memb ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

Toto Finds Final Resting Place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

The Legend (right)​Ah, what starting a Facebook group can't do. This time, the cause is Hollywood's most classic little footstool of an actor, or "Wizard of Oz" plot manipulator and master of eyebrow expressions (alongside such greats as the recently deceased Elizabeth Taylor) ... Toto! Poor ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles at 79: Her Children Were at Her Side

Elizabeth Taylor in 'Father of the Bride.'​Updated at the end with church wackos planning to protest her funeral because Taylor was a friend of the gay community. Check out our slide show of 12 of Taylor's most iconic roles here. Check out our piece about reaction from the HIV/AIDS activism ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor, R.I.P.

​ Elizabeth Taylor died last night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 79. We don't even know where to begin eulogizing the woman, and we'll have more to say soon, but we'll start by recommending Michael Musto's obit in our sister paper Village Voice.

Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Activist Mourned By Non-Profit Leaders in Los Angeles

HIV/AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor​Elizabeth Taylor's passing is mourned by HIV/AIDS activists in Los Angeles. Taylor had worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS activism for decades, especially after the 1985 death of her longtime friend, movie star Rock Hudson. "She was a singular champion ... More >>

Stuffy Federal Appeals Judges Won't Allow California Gay Marriages to Resume During Prop. 8 Hearing Downtime

​On the very day of Hollywood AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor's death, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gays of the Golden State: Thou shalt not wed thine one true love during this frustrating court-system standstill in the overturning of the absurdly unconstitut ... More >>

LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN

​On the very day of Hollywood AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor's death, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gays of the Golden State: Thou shalt not wed thine one true love during this frustrating court-system standstill in the overturning of the absurdly unconstitut ... More >>

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​On the very day of Hollywood AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor's death, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gays of the Golden State: Thou shalt not wed thine one true love during this frustrating court-system standstill in the overturning of the absurdly unconstitut ... More >>

Who Needs the L.A. Times Festival of Books?

​On the very day of Hollywood AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor's death, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gays of the Golden State: Thou shalt not wed thine one true love during this frustrating court-system standstill in the overturning of the absurdly unconstitut ... More >>

Buy A Piece Of Local Royalty At Hotel Bel-Air Sale

That's armoire.​If filling your abode with cootie-covered furnishings and tableware from a hotel sounds as unsavory to you as it does to us, hold that thought: Goods from the Hotel Bel-Air are up for sale, and the cooties you end up with might have belonged to Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Taylor ... More >>

ENCHANTREUSE

That's armoire.​If filling your abode with cootie-covered furnishings and tableware from a hotel sounds as unsavory to you as it does to us, hold that thought: Goods from the Hotel Bel-Air are up for sale, and the cooties you end up with might have belonged to Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Taylor ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

That's armoire.​If filling your abode with cootie-covered furnishings and tableware from a hotel sounds as unsavory to you as it does to us, hold that thought: Goods from the Hotel Bel-Air are up for sale, and the cooties you end up with might have belonged to Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Taylor ... More >>

Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty and Influence Auctions

It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on -- not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and sometimes not so lib ... More >>

HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

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MORE PROOF THAT MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE CAN LEAD TO A FULFILLING CAREER

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Today in Photographs: January 9, 1959

Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher invite the press to dine with them at Chasen's.(Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA Digital Collection)

Weiss' 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (#50-26)

Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'll get free MP3s--which, presumably, serve a tangible purpose. Now go cry into your near-beer, Phillip Ardagh, you lovable rogue. 50. Redman ft ... More >>

Best Supersexy Traction: Sportscience Institute

Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'll get free MP3s--which, presumably, serve a tangible purpose. Now go cry into your near-beer, Phillip Ardagh, you lovable rogue. 50. Redman ft ... More >>

Who Are You?

Auditioning for The Next Best Thing

Adele Mildred

Pretty as a picture

Is Edward Albee Softening with Success?

As Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf? opens in L.A., the playwright is at the top of his game.

A Dog’s Life

Not so bad, if you belong to Bruce Weber

The First Time

Not so bad, if you belong to Bruce Weber

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

HOLLYWOOD REUNION: Behind the Musical

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Style and Substance

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

The Formosa Café

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Memorial

To war reporters and Chasen's chili