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New York Magazine

British hairstylist Sarah Mills prides herself on the intimacy of her salon experience, best exemplified by the way she operated out of her Soho loft for years. This month, however, she trades in her home office for a 1,200-square-foot space on Worth Street in Tribeca. And sure, the space is larger, but the cuts are still top-notch. Miller, who specializes in short styles and won Best of New York (men's hair) from our magazine in 2005 , sat down to talk about surviving this economic mess and why she can't stand text messaging.

Are there any trends you wish would come back?
What comes to mind is Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Sophia Loren. Late fifties, early sixties, when women were women — sexy.

 

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Paste Magazine

Tired of watching Turner Classic Movies and going, "Wow. This movie is really cool. I'll have to buy it on DVD," only to find out, well heck, they don't make it on DVD? Thanks to Warner Brothers, those frustrating days may soon be coming to an end (to an extent, anyway) with the studio's innovative idea to make available to the public nearly every film in its vault.

Joining its nearly 1,200 films from the vault already available on disc, Warner Bros. is hoping to gradually expand availability of its films (by 20 or more each month) by allowing consumers to purchase custom DVDs from its Warner Archive website. Currently, there are 155 of these never-before-available digital copies (at the outset of this article, there were 151), quite a ways away from the roughly 6,800 remaining. George Feltenstein, senior vice president of theatrical catalog marketing at Warner Home Video, tells USA Today that he's shooting for about 350 available by Christmastime, and that he has hopes to eventually have most of them accessible.

For each title, you have your choice: a $15 download or a $20 hard copy, case and artwork included. And from all indications, these are going to be up to the standards of the packaging you see on the shelves. As for special features, the original trailer for each film is the only thing available thus far, but according to Feltenstein, more features may be added in the future. Also, no definitive word if Warner Bros. will continue it's Criterion Collection-esque, high standard of cleaning up the picture and soundtrack in this new venture.

Although none of the movies are going to be instantly recognizable to most people, a lot of the players involved are household names, including Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Joan Crawford, Steve McQueen, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis, Francis Ford Coppola, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and really, too many to mention. Of course, there are a bunch of rare, unknown film noir/crime dramas included like I Was a Communist for the FBI, Al Capone and Beast of the City. So, a little something for everyone.

 

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News and Observer

Have you always wanted to walk in the shoes of a celebrity?
You'll get your chance to at least gawk at them next week at one of three trunk shows coming to the area.
Kristen's Shoe Boutique in Cary is having a trunk show of shoes collected by second-generation shoe designer Reed Evins. Evins is bringing his amazing collection of vintage shoes -- worn by celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and Nancy Reagan -- to the store for a rare, up-close peek at celebrity style.
Among the pairs at the store: Jackie Kennedy's "Rooster" mule made by Albanese from the 1960s; Cher's jeweled booties from the "Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" in the 1970s; Taylor's jeweled sandals from the movie "Cleopatra"; Reagan's white satin jeweled pumps from an inaugural ball; and Ava Gardner's dancing shoes from "Dancing in the Dark" with Fred Astaire.
Evins has a good reason for having so many celebrity shoes. His father, Lee Evins, and his uncle, David Evins, were known back in the day among Hollywood celebrities for their imaginative shoe creations. They also were known in political circles, making shoes for every first lady from Mamie Eisenhower to Hillary Clinton.
These days, the Evins tradition of shoe making continues with Reed and his sister Melissa Evins, who are known for their modern spin on vintage looks.
The show, which runs from 4-7 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, will include some of Evins' shoes from spring and fall collections.
A little luxe
The global glam continues into the next week in Durham when Hamilton Hill International Designer Jewelry has two trunk shows featuring unique wedding bands and engagement rings from Switzerland and Italian enamel jewelry.
Store owner Sarah Hill calls the wedding bands, by Furrer-Jacot, "luxurious and different." Among the choices are the popular "chain" rings that are handmade in gold, palladium or platinum.
Also look for the latest enameled jewelry pieces from La Nouvelle Bague, which has been making its distinctive look out of Florence, Italy, for more than three decades.
The show is Friday and Saturday at Hamilton Hill's Brightleaf Square store.
Global glamour
Around the corner from Kristen's Shoe Boutique at the Arboretum, you also can find plenty of glamour at Joint Venture Jewelry.
The store's annual international jewelry show and sale, showcasing more than 250 pieces of estate and vintage jewelry from around the world, starts Wednesday.
Among the most stunning pieces: a jade and ruby bug pin, a 22-karat yellow gold bangle from India and an enamel pearl and diamond violet pin from 1912.
The show runs through April 6.
Time for the ball
Meredith College's annual Cinderella Project is back, giving away prom dresses to local high school students in need.
The temporary store will be at North Hills near Charlotte's and will be staffed by Meredith's Fashion Association students from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
If you've got a dress that you'd like to donate, bring it to Room 204 at Martin Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday. The group asks that all dresses be no more than five years old. No bridesmaid dresses, please.
To find out more, call 760-8395.

 

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La List
It was just over a year ago when the doors closed for good at the Virgin Megastore in the retail complex towering over the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. For many, it was the end of an era; the music store was the much-lauded anchor of the stores at 8000 Sunset and a regular stop for locals, celebs, starry-eyed celeb hopefuls, and tourists. But this wasn't the first time this corner said goodbye to a longstanding local legend. For half a century, Schwab's Pharmacy occupied a spot on the same segment of the Sunset Strip, and, like its successor, was also a regular stop for locals, celebs, starry-eyed celeb hopefuls, and tourists.
Schwab's Pharmacy opened at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in 1932, and was run by brothers Bernard, Leon, Jack and Martin Schwab. They had purchased a failing drug store and decided to capitalize on the local business from nearby studios, like Republic, RKO, and Columbia. The first Schwab's was located downtown on 6th. It was a typical drugstore of its time--goods and sundries available for purchase, prescriptions filled, and a soda fountain with counter service--only it happened to be in the heart of Hollywood. (Well, technically it's in West Hollywood, some may say it's West Hollywood--it's not--but WeHo wasn't incorporated as a city until 1984, one year after Schwab's closed, so that point is fairly moot anyhow.*)

Lana Turner in "They Won't Forget"--her first film after being discovered. But was she discovered at Schwab's?
What made Schwab's unlike other drug stores was the fact that it became a gathering place for actors. Not just celebrities, mind you--although they were among the clientele in the pharmacy's impressive Rolodex--but mostly working, or hoping-to-be-working, actors, who called the place "headquarters" and who spent hours at the counter chatting with each other and perusing the trade rags. Schwab's was a great leveler; as one website devoted to Hollywood's "Golden Era" explains:

It was unique among local hot spots in that it welcomed business from all rungs of the film industry ladder, and everyone was treated with equal deference. In the '30s and '40s you could spot Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Orson Welles, Ida Lupino, the Marx and Ritz Brothers, Marilyn Monroe, and Ronald Reagan rubbing shoulders with the rabble here. Chaplin and Harold Lloyd came to play the pinball machines, and it was a favorite trysting place for F. Scott Fitzgerald and his lover Sheilah Graham. Schwab's was particularly solicitous of Tinseltown's "underemployed"; credit was guaranteed, and struggling young performers could always drop in for a free meal. One of them, Ava Gardner, landed a job behind the soda fountain while waiting for her big break​

 

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Palos Verdes Peninsula

Warner Bros. promoted its first sound film with ads that boasted, “All talking, All Singing, All dancing.” That ad title might describe the annual Act II variety show that opens this weekend at the Norris Theatre.
This time, however, prodcer Pam Barrett and her crew have borrowed a few frames from MGM and calls it “When the Lion Roared.”

This show not only entertains audiences with home-grown talent, it also raises money for the Norris Center for the Performing Arts.

Few Peninsulans know that box office ticket sales at the Norris garner only about 40 percent of the funds needed to keep its stage illuminated. The annual fund-raiser keeps the center’s doors open.

One of show’s contributors, Liz Cantine, a dance educator, said that “My Ready, Willing and Able” group will dance a cha, cha, cha to the tune of “Tico, Tico” and swing to “Rock Around the Clock.” Her special-needs students learn dancing assisted by peer mentors from Peninsula public high schools and Chadwick School.

Cantine also has a senior adult group called Tap Happy. “They will be tapping to ‘I've Been Working on the Railroad,’” she said.

Among other surprises awaiting local audiences will be an appearance by singer and voice coach Annette Warren Smith of Rancho Palos Verdes. She will sing “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man” from the film “Showboat.” When its director nixed Ava Gardner’s voice, Smith’s voice was dubbed in for that actress.
Showtimes are on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 pm. The Sunday performance will be at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for young folk. Call (310) 544-0403.

 

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Knights of the Round Table [2003] [DVD]
Starring: Johnny Green, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Run Time: 115 minutes
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Subtitled: English, French, Spanish
Original Language: English

Historical drama exposing the famous love triangle in King Arthur's Court.

This 1953 follow-up to the successful teaming of actor Robert Taylor and director Richard Thorpe on Ivanhoe isn't quite as good a film, but it is a sumptuous adventure-romance shot on location in England. MGM's first widescreen production finds Taylor playing Sir Lancelot to Mel Ferrer's King Arthur. Based in part on Thomas Malory's 14th-century version of the Camelot legend, Knights of the Round Table tells the familiar tale of Arthur's construction of a Utopian kingdom, where virtue, courage, and a sense of possibility rule the hearts of strong men. Lancelot is there every step of the way, but after Arthur marries a particularly bodacious Guinevere (Ava Gardner), Lancelot can't stifle his love for her, nor can she stifle her own for him. That ***** in the wall of the Camelot dream is exploited by detractors Morgan le Fay (Anne Crawford) and Mordred (Stanley Baker), who set up the lovers for their downfall. The script by Talbot Jennings is proficient at capturing the outsized passions of Malory's epic, which may be one reason why Ivanhoe, with a bit more understatedness, is the better of the two adaptations. True-blue Arthurians, however, will want to see this for its visual sweep and loyalty to the source. --Tom Keogh

 

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Movieland Directory

We get questions about Palm Springs as well as Hollywood so I thought I’d suggest a tour of Palm Springs. One of our blog pals is actually poking around Palm Springs this weekend. During the 1930’s Palm Springs was an oasis for the movie community and continued to be such into the 1950’s. Big stars from Garbo to Sinatra either purchased or rented houses there where they could escape the media spotlight in L.A.Over the years though, Palm Springs itself has grown a bit “tired” versus the gorgeous areas further east like Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage.
I heartily suggest visiting Palm Desert’s El Paseo, a mile-long stretch of great restaurants, shops, etc. that runs just two blocks south of, and parallel to, Rte. 111 (the main drag through the Coachella Valley).Anyway, you can take a wonderful Palm Springs tour beginning in the neighborhood around that backs up to the mountains just south of the Palm Canyon Drive/Rte. 111 split west of the airport.
The streets west of Palm Canyon that back up to the mountains (north of O’Donnell Golf Club) was referred to as “The Movie Colony” for its many Hollywood residents.That neighborhood is chock full of Hollywood names. Jack Warner’s house was at 285 Via Lola and a few blocks north Donna Reed owned a gorgeous home at 1184 Camino Marisol from 1966-1970. Howard Hughes was at 335 Camino Del Norte; next door at 323 was Alan Ladd & Sue Carol’s long-time home where he died in 1968. Mary Martin owned the house on the other side of Hughes.
A few blocks away at 252 Camino Sur, Cher bought a house in 2004 and rehabbed it and sold it last year (listed at $2,500,000 it finally sold for $1,900,000) and at 893 Camino Sur is a house that belonged to George Nader. Nader was an actor that the studios “gave up” instead of Rock Hudson when a 1950’s movie magazine was going to “out” Hudson. They outed Nader instead.Elvis Presley’s 845 Chino Canyon house is in the same neighborhood.
A few blocks from Elvis, Bette Davis rented a guest house at an estate called Villa Santa Lucia at 784 N Patencio Road, which sold for $4,800,000 last year. She rented it for years. John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas had a big house up the hill at 695 W Stevens Road at the north end of the neighborhood. Liberace died at 226 W Alejo Road in the southern end of the neighborhood near the golf course. His house, called Casa de Cloisters, is also listed at 501 N Belardo and has the weird statues in front that he habitually placed around all his houses, and over his grave at Forest Lawn.
Frank Sinatra’s famous estate was on the other side of Palm Canyon at 1148 E Alejo. Marilyn Monroe slept in a special tower bedroom he kept for her and Sinatra once threw then-wife Ava Gardner’s possessions onto the driveway after she appeared at the house in an attempt to catch him with Lana Turner.Just north of the neighborhood William Powell had a home at 383 N Via Norte for 30 years years; he died there in 1984. His wife was actress Diane Lewis.

 

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What a marvelous looking pic of Ava in a cape.

 

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