Natalie Wood

The Canyons, Starring Lindsay Lohan and Porn Star James Deen

The Canyons Is Vital, Messy, and Alive With Regret

This Book Will Challenge Everything You Thought You Knew About The Searchers

If you're embittered Civil War veteran John Wayne and Indians kill your brother's family, burn down the family farm and abduct your cute 8-year-old niece (who might actually be your biological daughter), naturally you have to set out on an obsessive quest to rescue her and bring her back to white ma ... More >>

Icons & Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers,

Why Artists Are Blurring the Line Between Real History and Pretend

10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time -- that regionwide, Getty-funded series of exhibitions on SoCal art history -- wound down and the art community shifted attention from past to present. Maybe it's because th ... More >>

James Franco, Paul McCarthy & Damon McCarthy

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sculptures of Fax Machines

This week, snarky performance artist Eleanor Antin remembers Stalin, Paul McCarthy pulls a chair out from under a fictional Natalie Wood and sculptor Emily Counts turns a fax machine mystical. 5. What's war got to do with it? In the trailer for their new exhibition and performance series, Arjun Ne ... More >>

James Franco and Alex Israel: Why Their Obsession With Celebrity Doesn't Pay Off

In the span of a week, MOCA has subjected us to not one but two art installations that are heavily dependent on celebrity for their content. James Franco's "Rebel" opened the weekend before last at the JF Chen showroom, and this past Saturday night Alex Israel had a video screening and performance o ... More >>

Man's Inhumanity to Plants

Lana Del Rey - Amoeba Music - 2/7/12 (With Photos)

Lana Del Rey Amoeba Music 2-7-12 See also our Lana Del Rey slide show. Better Than... peering through the windows of a candy store. Perhaps as a sign of her growing musical and magical powers, Lana Del Rey brought her own weather with her to Amoeba Music. L.A.'s currently going through one of its ... More >>

Natalie Wood Murdered? Husband Robert Wagner 'Not a Suspect,' Says L.A. Sheriff

Trouble in paradise?​Could Hollywood darling Natalie Wood's fatal drowning in 1981 have been darker than the simple accident it was once ruled to be? Wood and her husband Robert Wagner (truly L.A.'s royal couple at the time), along with their actor friend Christopher Walken, were night-boatin ... More >>

Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

Bas Jan Ader and Zoe Crosher: The Art of Disappearing People

Zoe CrosherZoe Crosher's photo of where Michael Douglas jumped at Venice Beach Pier in the movie Falling Down ​ This week's art feature in our print edition, Catherine Wagley connects two current exhibits that explore the art of disappearing people. One shows the work of the artist and cult f ... More >>

Young, Rebellious and Prematurely Dead

Exile on Sunset Boulevard

Rolling in L.A. with the Stones

Wood + Beatty = A Whole Lotta Splendor

Today in Photographs: March 21, 1956

Natalie Wood, escorted by Tab Hunter, arrives at the Academy Awards ceremony. Hearst gossip columnist Louella Parsons stands beminked in background, according to photo's original caption.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Richard Quine: Dying Is Easy

A journalist recalls his fateful encounter with Hollywood's most tragic comedy director

Unmasking the Essential American Soul

Director Neil Jordan on revenge, forbidden hate and the making of a killer

Immortal Mayhem

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

Halloweekend

On Lambert

Remembering the work of the late screenwriting great

Mainly About Gavin

Gavin Lambert, 1924 — 2005

The Devils Made Me Do It

Dostoyevsky’s novel as commedia

Hollywood Splendor

Gavin Lambert on Natalie Wood, Vivian Leigh and the meaning of stardom

Welcome to the Jungle

Edited by Kateri Butler

Oral Histories

Winona Forever

Jena at 15

A childhood in Hollywood

Parallel Lives

Toback’s lovers, Howitt’s lumps