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Weekend Matinee: An Extremely Condensed History of Hollywood

Odds and Ends
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the development of the movie industry, from the early days to television, in exactly 5 minutes. Listen up close, kiddos. It goes by fast.

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Imlay Name Goes Hollywood in Battle:LA

Names and Faces
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I haven’t seen the movie yet, but friends report that Battle:LA features a character named USMC Corporal Lee Imlay. (They also take great joy in telling me he’s a motor-mouth who gets blown to smithereens by aliens.)
Apparently, there’s also a newly released video game based on the movie in which players can take on the [...]

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Lost and Found: Original 1927 Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Footprints

Life in Angel City
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NBC Los Angeles reports that concrete slabs bearing the original footprints of Sid Grauman, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have been found in — of all places — a local airport hanger. Along with the still-lost footprints of Norma Talmadge, the silent-era imprints date to 1927 and, through a quirk of fate, were the very [...]

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Time Warp: William Desmond Taylor’s Sensational Death Scene

Cryptic L.A.
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Today it’s a Ross parking lot, but on the evening of Feb. 1, 1922, the tract at 404. S. Alvarado was a Mediterranean bungalow court — and the setting for Movieland’s first real-life murder mystery.
Sometime before midnight, two shots rang out, killing famed actor-turned-Paramount-director William Desmond Taylor from behind. Neighbors shrugged off the noise as [...]

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Hollywood’s Legendary Bronson Caves Are Just a Stone’s Throw Away

Angeleno Sights
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Recognize this gaping oriface in the Hollywood Hills? If you don’t, you obviously weren’t a fan of the 1960s Batman television series or numerous other Hollywood productions hearkening back to the Silent Era.
This is one of a handful of man-made excavations at the southwestern corner of Griffith Park known as the Bronson Caves. Featured prominently [...]

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