Happy 100th Birthday

Carl Laemmle, Jr.!

AMERICAN FILM PRODUCER

• BORN: April 28, 1908, Chicago, Illinois
• DIED: September 24, 1979, Beverly Hills, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Stroke
• BURIAL: Home of Peace Cemetery, Chapel Mausoleum

• SON of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
• DIED 40 years to-the-day after his father
• PRODUCER of such horror classics as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931),

The Mummy (1932) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2008

HOLLYWOOD

Fire tears through a popular eatery

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The popular restaurant Off Vine was badly damaged by a fire late Sunday afternoon.

The California cuisine eatery, on Leland Way near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street, was in a 100-year-old house that was converted to a restaurant in 1989.

No injuries were reported in the blaze, which was reported at 5:20 p.m. and extinguished in about half an hour, fire officials said. The cause remains under investigation.

From Times staff and wire reports / photos from laist

Bebe Barron, 82; scored the science fiction film ‘Forbidden Planet’

By Valerie J. Nelson
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

April 27, 2008

Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer who started manipulating sounds after receiving a tape recorder as a wedding present and later scored the 1956 science-fiction film Forbidden Planet, the first full-length feature to use only electronic music, has died. She was 82.

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