See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell leave an impression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.LA Times/UCLA
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