HOLLYWOOD EVENTS

Hollywood Heritage presents

An Evening with Jane Russell

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

If you think you know Jane Russell, you’re in for some surprises. Come and meet the deeply religious beauty who adopted three children and founded World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), an organization to place children with adoptive families that pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.

Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund, Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families. Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States.

A limited amount of Jane Russell’s 1986 autobiography Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours : An Autobiography will be available for sale at the event.

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Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn

2100 N. Highland Avenue

Hollywood (across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Refreshments available. FREE PARKING

Information: (323) 874-2276

Admission – Members: $5 Non-Members: $10

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM. SEATING IS LIMITED.

ADMISSION IS SOLD ONLY AT THE DOOR.

For more information, visit: www.hollywoodheritage.org

Hollywood Heritage, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the historic built environment in Hollywood and to education about the early film industry and the role its’ pioneers played in shaping Hollywood’s history.

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 DISPATCHES:

David Darmstaedter, Rebecca Velazquez, Chiwan Choi & Melora Walters. Poetry & Prose at The Masonic Lodge – Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Wednesday – June 23, 2010

The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

DOORS 8:00 PM – READINGS 9:00 PM (SHARP)

ADMISSION & PARKING ARE FREE. BEER & WINE SERVED ($2 suggested donation).

David Darmstaedter has written plays produced at the Hudson Theater starring Mark Ruffalo and also wrote on the, El Cantante, screenplay, starring Jennifer Lopez. He will be reading from is debut published novel, My Monster, a hilarious story about an ex-model, porn actor, junkie, widower trying to raise his son by himself.

Rebecca Velazquez is from Mexico and was raised in Southern California. She holds a double major in Humanities and Art History from Loyola Marymount. She is currently working on an autobiographical book about her decade long struggle with drugs and a self help series on conquering addictions for the last time.

Chiwan Choi is a writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. His first major collection of poetry, The Flood, has been published by Tía Chucha Press.  He leads various writing workshops and is the owner/editor of a publishing company featuring Los Angeles writers, Writ Large Press.

Melora Walters’s first chapbook of poetry and art, Sonnets and Failures, will be published by Finishing Line Press. Her art can be found on her website: melorawaltersvendler-art.com. She is also an actress (Boogie Nights, Big Love). Melora Walters resides in Los Angeles with her husband Alex and her two children, Tom and Joanna.

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Hollywood Heritage Presents

An Evening With Norman Lloyd

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:30 PM

The evening will include a screening of the documentary, “Who Is Norman Lloyd?” and a discussion with Mr. Lloyd about his more than 70 years in theater, motion pictures and television, during which he has excelled as actor, director and producer. During his prolific career, he has worked for and with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, John Houseman and many others. Actor, director and producer Norman Lloyd began in amateur vaudeville as a boy, studied with Eva Le Gallienne and landed on Broadway in 1935. He joined Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater in 1937 in “Julius Caesar,” scoring a hit as Cinna, the Poet. In Hollywood he played the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” (1942), appeared in Jean Renoir’s “The Southerner” (1945) and in Chaplin’s final American film, “Limelight,” in 1952. He became a close friend and tennis partner of Chaplin and worked with Lewis Milestone and John Houseman. He also produced the American stage premiere of Berthold Brecht’s “Galileo,” starring Charles Laughton. He was associate producer of 171 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” from 1957 to 1962; executive producer of 44 episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” 1963-65, and producer of 18 during the same span. For eight years and in 132 episodes he played Dr. Daniel Auschlander on television’s “St. Elsewhere.” At age 95 he still plays tennis twice a week, drives a Jaguar and acknowledges that he is a shameless workaholic.

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Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn

2100 N. Highland Avenue

Hollywood (across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Refreshments available. FREE PARKING

Information: (323) 874-2276

Admission – Members: $5 Non-Members: $10

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM. SEATING IS LIMITED.

ADMISSION IS SOLD ONLY AT THE DOOR.

For more information, visit: www.hollywoodheritage.org

Hollywood Heritage, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the historic built environment in Hollywood and to education about the early film industry and the role its’ pioneers played in shaping Hollywood’s history.

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TONIGHT

Saturday, April 17, 2010

7 :00 PM

Larry Edmunds Bookshop is proud to team up with Dearly Departed/Hollywood Movie Tours by being the starting point for this standout Hollywood experience. Hollywood history collides at the reception launch tonight, Saturday, April 17th at 7:00 p.m. and will feature a presentation by Dearly Departed Tours own master of morbid curiosity Scott Michaels.

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA, 90028

Phone: 323)463-3273

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Experience the delightfully twisted underbelly of Hollywood with Dearly Departed Tours!  Scott Michaels founded Dearly Departed back in 1989, specializing in dead celebrity memorabilia before launching the tour business in 2005.  Since then he has been pleasing stars and their fans alike with his irresistible combination of wit, humor and insight into the morbid world of celebrity death!

For more information, check out Dearly Departed Tours website HERE

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O’Halloran and Hauschka at the Masonic Lodge

Composers and pianists Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka to perform in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Hollywood Forever presents composers and pianists: Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka.

Tickets are $25 at Ticketweb.com

The double header concert features:

• Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based composer Dustin O’Halloran performing his compositions for piano.

• The inventive Düsseldorf pianist and composer Hauschka performing works for prepared piano.

• The Magik*Magik String Quintet to accompany both artists.

Doors Open : 8:00 PM

Hauschka : 9:00 PM

Dustin O’Halloran : 10:00 PM

The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

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Evening @ The Barn

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:30PM

An Evening of RICHARD DIX

Presented By His Son,

ROBERT DIX

Robert Dix, actor and author of Out of Hollywood — Two Generations of Actors talks about growing up in Hollywood with a famous father and will share some of the highlights of his own life as an actor from the 1950s — 1970s.

The program will include a photo presentation illustrating the careers of both father and son, a screening of a 1925 silent film, with musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla, and a book signing.

Check out Richard Dix in a scene from Val Lewton’s Ghost Ship

Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn

2100 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood (across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Refreshments available. FREE PARKING Information: (323) 874-2276

Admission – Members: $5 Non-Members: $10

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM. SEATING IS LIMITED. ADMISSION IS SOLD ONLY AT THE DOOR.

For more information, visit: www.hollywoodheritage.org

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Evening @ The Barn

Hollywood Heritage presents a special “Evening @ the Barn” with

MARSHA HUNT 

in person with the 50th Anniversary Presentation of her  documentary, unseen since 1960:

“A Call from the Stars”

Thursday February 18, 2010
7:30 p.m.

Marsha Hunt is a remarkable woman, and Hollywood Heritage is delighted to be hosting this event. 

“A Call from the Stars,” is a 1 hr. documentary Marsha produced that raised money and awareness for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. 14 of Marsha’s celebrity friends participated, including Paul Newman, Bing Crosby, Joanne Woodward, David Niven, Harry Belafonte and Jean Simmons. The special aired on Los Angeles television  February 10, 1960, in observance of the United Nations “World Refugee Year.” 

This special “Evening @ the Barn” is a Fundraiser to assist filmmakers in the completion of the feature documentary ”Marsha Hunt: Sweet Adversity.” Selected clips from this film will be shown, and you can find more information by clicking here to visit the documentary’s website.

Please note that, as this is a fundraiser, admission is $10.00 for both members and non-members. We recommend reservations for this event, as the Barn’s seating is limited to 110 persons. Please phone in your reservation at (818) 762-6608

Raffle tickets will be sold for an autographed copy of Marsha’s beautiful and “hard to find” coffee table book, ”The Way We Wore: Fashions of the 1930′s and 40′s and Our World Since Then.” For more information, please contact the documentary’s co-producer, Roger C. Memos at (310) 717-9364 or by email: zeldacandance@aol.com

Marsha Hunt with “A Call from the Stars” will be presented
in the
HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE MUSEUM in the
Lasky-DeMille Barn

(Across from the Hollywood Bowl)

2100 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90068

Admission $10

 Admission sold only at the door, but advance reservations requested.

Doors open 7 p.m., program starts 7:30 p.m.

Refreshments available for purchase.
 

FREE PARKING as usual.

If arriving by Metro, we are a short walk north of the Hollywood/Highland red line station.

REMINDER: The Hollywood Heritage Museum has a capacity of only 110 guests. Once the capacity is reached, we will not be able to seat anyone else, due to fire regulations.

Please reserve in advance by calling (818) 762-6608.

HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE

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Comedy is Dead 9

with Doug Benson

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Hollywood Forever Cemetery and Duncan Trussell present the 9th installment of Comedy is Dead in the historic Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Admission is $15 and drinks (beer and wine) are $5. PARKING IS FREE

LINE UP:  Thursday, January 28^th, 2010

Doug Benson- Super High Me, Best Week Ever

Dana Gould- The Simpsons, HBO

Chris Hardwick- Attack Of The Show,  Halloween 2 (and a million other things)

Guy Braunum- Chelsea Lately

Nick Kroll- The League, Worst Week

Natasha Leggero- Chelsea Lately, Reno 911

Duncan Trussell- Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO’s Funny Or Die

Doors open at 8:00 PM – Comedians go on at 9:00 PM sharp

For more information the public can visit www.comedyisdead.info

or send an email to comedyisdead@gmail.com or call 310.909.7965.

Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com

Location Address:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

COMEDY IS DEAD

Duncan Trussell is a comedian who got the idea to do a comedy show in a cemetery after watching Last Comic Standing and realizing that Stand-Up comedy has been murdered by the mass media. The show features actual comedians in the beautiful setting of a restored Masonic temple.

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Bob’s Holiday Office Party

Asylum has “Bob’s Holiday Office Party,” with Ann Randolph,

Rob Elk and Joe Keyes, right. (Ed Krieger / December 17, 2009)

Bob’s Holiday Office Party, Hollywood: Now in its 14th season, this irreverent parody gives audiences a humorous peek at the age-old tradition of the holiday office party. Booze-laced eggnog flows freely, faces are slapped, drinks are spilled and embarrassment reigns supreme in Joe Keyes and Rob Elk’s rude and riotous sendup. Theatre Asylum, 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., 8 p.m. tonight through Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. $20. (323) 960-5774. www.bobsofficeparty.com

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

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2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade

Just a few photos from the 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade. Sorry, I didn’t stay for the entire event so I didn’t see the Big Guy…..

Hollywood Christmas Parade Grand Marshall: Susan Lucci

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