AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
INESCAPABLE PASTS.
Movie Listings
The Film File
New York, rising high, eliminates its past with a wrecking ball; Los Angeles, spreading out, broods over its history until it rots. Events from decades ago--a famous murder, a Hollywood scandal, a corrupt real-estate deal--serve as the basis of L.A. novels and screenplays, and the movies made from these fictions become part of the city's sense of itself, and that, in turn, gets fed into new novels, screenplays, and journalism. A documentary on this subject, from 2004, was called "Los Angeles Plays Itself." Yes, and plays itself with decreasing vitality. Imitation and pastiche come easily to a photographic medium, and films ...
- Los Angeles Times Archives Brings Real-Life Perspective to Universal Pictures'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 25, 2006 700+ words
...Stories From the Los Angeles Times' Extensive 'Black Dahlia' Archives 'The...release of "The Black Dahlia," the Los Angeles Times and Universal...still unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder that stunned Los Angeles in 1947. The Los...
- Los Angeles Press Club Hosts Black Dahlia: The Enduring Legacy of the Murder...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 3, 2006 700+ words
...Author of THE BLACK DAHLIA FILES: THE MOB...THAT TRANSFIXED LOS ANGELES, Will Speak at...the case of the Black Dahlia, one of the most...the history of Los Angeles. On the morning...author of THE BLACK DAHLIA FILES: THE MOB...THAT TRANSFIXED LOS ...
- The Los Angeles Press Club Presents 'Black Dahlia: The Enduring Legacy of the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 9, 2006 700+ words
...and films, The Black Dahlia case is considered...unsolved murder in Los Angeles history. On Thursday...the murder, the Los Angeles Press Club will...author of "The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob...That Transfixed Los Angeles" (ReganBooks...
- Black Dahlia murder mocked the Hollywood dream.
- Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA) September 22, 2006 700+ words
...wrapped up in the Los Angeles psyche and that of...author and retired Los Angeles Police Department...who wrote "The Black Dahlia Avenger," which...period in greater Los Angeles. The Black Dahlia murder was also one...
- `Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story,' by Steve Hodel; Arcade (481 pages,...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 1, 2003 700+ words
...in a residential Los Angeles neighborhood. Now, in "Black Dahlia Avenger," Steve...Stephen Kay, a Los Angeles deputy district...believe him or not, "Black Dahlia Avenger" is a fascinating...horrifying tale of 1940s Los Angeles _ as Steve Hodel...
- `Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story,' by Steve Hodel; Arcade.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Poletti, Therese July 9, 2003 700+ words
...in a residential Los Angeles neighborhood. Now, in "Black Dahlia Avenger," Steve...Stephen Kay, a Los Angeles deputy district...believe him or not, "Black Dahlia Avenger" is a fascinating...horrifying tale of 1940s Los Angeles _ as Steve Hodel...
- SHOWTIME to Premiere the Documentary 'James Ellroy's Feast of Death' on...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 13, 2003 700+ words
...year-old Los Angeles murder case of The Black Dahlia, his own...along with the Los Angeles Police Department...Short, "The Black Dahlia," whose...was born in Los Angeles in 1948...novels - THE BLACK DAHLIA, THE BIG...
- Movie review: The Black Dahlia **: 'Black Dahlia': Murder cloaked in...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) September 15, 2006 700+ words
...De Palma's The Black Dahlia tells the seediest...is ingrained in Los Angeles lore. I remember...dressed as the Black Dahlia. He was the lower...uncharted terrain of Los Angeles, and in this respect The Black Dahlia knows exactly what...
