HOLLYWOOD EVENTS

Evening @ the Barn

On Wednesday, February 8th at 7:30 pm

       INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE

by

Anthony Slide

Acclaimed author Anthony Slide will go “inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine” with a heavily illustrated, Power Point presentation about this fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture.  Hear how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II and the blacklist.  At the end of the program, there will be a book signing.

“For anyone who equates ‘fan magazines’ with supermarket tabloids, this book should come as a revelation.  Tony Slide has one a formidable job of research to chart the birth, rise and fall of Hollywood fan magazines in the twentieth century, their relationship to the industry they covered and the readers they served.  It’s a colorful, well-told history thats full of surprises.” – Leonard Maltin

Advance tickets via the internet are recommended through Brown Paper Tickets: click here: Brown Paper Tickets Inside The Hollywood Fan Magazine

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Brown Paper Tickets call (800) 838-3006 to reserve over the phone. Event 217814

A nominal service fee will be added. 

An Evening @ the Barn will be presented in the HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE MUSEUM in the Lasky-DeMille Barn (Across from the Hollywood Bowl), 2100 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA90068.

Ample FREE PARKING as usual in “Lot D.”

Doors open 7:00 p.m.; program starts 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 for Hollywood Heritage Members

$10.00 for non-members

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Evening @ the Barn

Hollywood My Home Town: An evening with Kevin Thomas 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7:30 p.m.

Hollywood Heritage Museum

2100 N. Highland Avenue

(across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Hollywood, CA 90068

www.hollywoodheritage.org

Kevin Thomas is best known as the longest contributing film critic at the Los Angeles Times but in truth, Mr. Thomas’ life in Hollywood goes far beyond his accomplished writings. Mr. Thomas’ family was one of the first families of early Hollywood and owned property along both Hollywood Boulevard (then known as Prospect Avenue), and Cherokee and La Brea Avenues. His family was French in origin and counted among their Hollywood neighbors and friends the noted artist Paul de Longpré and Louis Blondeau, the owner of the road house which eventually became Hollywood’s first film studio.

This evening will provide a rare glimpse into Hollywood history since, as his career progressed, Mr. Thomas could number among his own friends not only well known luminaries like Gloria Swanson, but also Minta Durfee Arbuckle, wife of Roscoe and Gertrude Olmstead, a Valentino co-star. Film historian Robert S. Birchard will host the evening, interviewing Mr. Thomas about his family and career along with a visual presentation of early Hollywood History.

TICKET INFORMATION: 

Hollywood Heritage Members:  $5

Non-Members:  $10 

Doors Open:  7 p.m.

Although tickets may be purchased at the door, we recommend advance purchase through Brown Paper Tickets allowing patrons to buy tickets online (link is below), or over the phone at 1-800-838-3006. You can also have your tickets held for pickup the night of the event. There is a small service charge for the service, but it will guarantee seats at the events. The direct link to purchase tickets to “Hollywood My Home Town:  An Evening @ the Barn with Kevin Thomas” is:

 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/202424

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Evening @ the Barn

A Day of Silents at Hollywood Heritage

Saturday, November 5, 2011

2:30 p.m.

Hollywood Heritage Museum

2100 N. Highland Avenue

(across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Hollywood, CA 90068

www.hollywoodheritage.org

TICKET INFORMATION:

Hollywood Heritage Members:  $5 per individual film/$10 all-day pass

Non-Members:  $10 per individual film/$15 all-day pass. 

Doors Open:  2 p.m. 

Although tickets may be purchased at the door, we recommend advance purchase through Brown Paper Tickets allowing patrons to buy tickets online (link is below), or over the phone at 1-800-838-3006. You can also have your tickets held for pickup the night of the event. There is a small service charge for the service, but it will guarantee seats at the events. The direct link to purchase ”Day of Silents” tickets is:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/203096

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Jens Lekman in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

The Masonic Lodge

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets are $25 

Tickets are ON SALE NOW at: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com

PARKING IS FREE ON SITE 

Doors open: 8:00pm

Show:  9:00pm

Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee. Traveling our globe as a wide open receptor of all it has to offer, Lekman repurposes for his own oeuvre the world’s great, lost pop hooks of past and present. He breathes into them his droll senses of humor, romance and melody and gives them a newfound buoyancy. Since his 2004 trifecta of EPs (Maples Leaves, Rocky Dennis in Heaven, You Are the Light) and right on through his acclaimed 2007 full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Lekman has made hopeless romantics of us all. In a musical language that has roots in the work of Arthur Russell, The Magnetic Fields, Calvin Johnson and Modern Lovers, Lekman’s songs serve as a reminder to look closer at the world around us, to appreciate the beauty when it’s both in and out of context; at its most heartbreaking, its most loving, and its most absurd.

For more information on Jens Lekman please visit: www.jenslekman.com

For more information on Hollywood Forever please visit: www.hollywoodforever.com

If you have any questions please e-mail: events@hollywoodforever.com

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Thurston Moore in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

The Masonic Lodge

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets are $25

Tickets are ON SALE NOW at: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com 

PARKING IS FREE ON SITE 

Doors open: 8:00pm

Show: 9:00pm

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone’s 2004 edition of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

For more information on Thurston Moore visit: http://www.groundcontroltouring.com/artists/thurston-moore

http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/thurston

For more information on Hollywood Forever please visit: www.hollywoodforever.com

If you have any questions please e-mail: events@hollywoodforever.com

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Bright Eyes outdoors on the Fairbanks Lawn at Hollywood Forever

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

Fairbanks Lawn

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets are $35

4 tickets per person / per household purchase limit. NO EXCEPTIONS!

(Any customers violating this policy will have their orders refunded automatically without notice)

Gates open at 6:00pm (PDT) – 09.23.2011

You are welcome to bring: blankets, pillows, food and drinks.

You may NOT bring: tents, coolers, chairs of any kind, dogs/pets.

There will be limited parking on site at $10 per car.

(Ticket purchasers will be notified via email when parking goes on sale)

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no overnight camping for this show and no one is permitted to line up before 5pm day of show.

*** This show is outdoors and is RAIN OR SHINE ***

Tickets available  at www.hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com

For more information on Bright Eyes please visit www.conoroberst.com

For more information on Hollywood Forever please visit www.hollywoodforever.com

If you have any questions please e-mail: events@hollywoodforever.com

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Laura Marling in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets are $25

Tickets go ON SALE now at: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com

PARKING IS FREE ON SITE

Doors open: 7:30pm

Show: 8:30pm

In her native England, singer-songwriter Laura Marling, who just turned 21 in February, has often been described as an old soul, wise beyond her years. Her work is indeed preternaturally mature in its worldview and self-assured in its execution, but — as her third album and Ribbon Music debut attests — it’s equally informed by a youthful sort of fearlessness. On A Creature I Don’t Know, Marling is forthright about her emotions, frank about her desires, and she’s not above having a bit of fun before the going gets too rocky. For example, the album’s final track, “All My Rage,” has a purposely misleading title: it’s an exorcism, a celebration, dancing away accumulated trouble on the disc’s liveliest arrangement, a disarmingly upbeat climax to an engrossingly candid journey.

While so many artists of any age attempt to locate their inner child, Marling, with a sometime steely gaze, measures the prerogatives of youth against the looming realities of adulthood – the spectre of mortality, the betrayals of love, the balm of sex, the yearning for companionship, the need for independence. Of late, England has produced some impressively sophisticated young pop artists like Adele, James Blake and the XX, but the folk-oriented Marling remains in a class of her own. As the Times Of London recently posited, “Who else is making music as ambitious, as haunting, as centuries-straddling, as thought-provoking and artistically tenacious as this? And the answer is: nobody. No, really. Not a soul.”

For more information on Laura Marling please visit: www.lauramarling.com

For more information on Hollywood Forever please visit: www.hollywoodforever.com

If you have any questions please e-mail: events@hollywoodforever.com

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Patrick Wolf in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets are $20 

Tickets are ON SALE NOW at: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com

PARKING IS FREE ON SITE

Doors open:       8pm

Show:                   9pm

For more information on Patrick Wolf please visit: www.patrickwolf.com

For more information on Hollywood Forever please visit: www.hollywoodforever.com

If you have any questions please e-mail: events@hollywoodforever.com

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Cinecon 47 at the Egyptian Theater

To Pay Tribute to The National Film Preservation Foundation

The 47th Annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California will be held over the Labor Day Weekend, September 1-5, 2011. Tribute will be paid to the National Film Preservation Foundation with screenings of two recent NFPF funded projects, The Active Life of Dolly the Dailies Episode 5, and The Chinese Fan, produced by Thomas A. Edison, and the 1920 Metro Pictures film, Stronger than Death, starring legendary Russian actress Alla Nazimova.

The Active Life of Dolly the Dailies is presented by the Academy Film Archive through a collaboration of the New Zealand Film Archive, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and the American archival community. Stronger Than Death was preserved by the George Eastman House through a grant funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Both films are two of nearly forty rare and unusual films to be screened during the five-day Cinecon Classic Film Festival. Other titles scheduled include Raymond Griffith’s Civil War comedy Hands Up! (1926); Stormy Weather (1943) featuring Lena Horne, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway, Thomas “Fats” Waller and the Nicholas Brothers; Beauty’s Worth (1922) produced by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and starring Marion Davies; Blazing Days (1927) an early effort by future Oscar-winning director William Wyler, and The Brasher Doubloon (1947) a film noir classic based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, “The High Window,” with George Montgomery in the role of detective Phillip Marlowe.

In addition to the film screenings, Cinecon offers a movie memorabilia and collectibles show during the festival at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel, 1755 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood.

If you love movies, Cinecon 47 is the place to be over the Labor Day weekend.

–From Cinecon’s website

 For more information, click HERE for Cinecon’s website!

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 By Allan R. Ellenberger

Today fans of Toto and the Wizard of Oz gathered at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for the unveiling and dedication of the Toto Memorial. Cloudy skys turned to sun, however there were no rainbows but only smiling faces and many, many Cairn Terriers to celebrate the day.

Those who had part in the ceremony included Chanell O’Farrill who welcomed everyone on behave of Hollywood Forever; members of the Toto Memorial Committee, J. P. Myers, Steve Goldstein; Mark Dodge from FixNation, and Robert Baum, the great-grandson of The Wizard of Oz creator, L. Frank Baum. After the crowd sang a chorus of “Over the Rainbow,” the unveiling went off with smoothly. Many thanks go to all who participated today and Tyler Cassity, owner of Hollywood Forever who donated the land the memorial stands on. Enjoy the following photos from todays festivities.

Fans and several Cairn Terriers begin to gather for todays ceremony

These Cairns had front row seats for the unveiling

Claire and Robert Baum, great-grandson of author L. Frank Baum

Robert Baum speaks to the crowd before the unveiling

Waiting for the unveiling

 The unveiling of the Toto Memorial. From left, Robert Baum, J.P. Myers, Steve Goldstein, Mark Dodge, Tyler Cassity

Welcome home Toto.

(Toto sculpted by Roman Gal and the base was designed by Arsen Oganesyan)

Above and below, the inscriptions on either side of the memorial

Toto (1933-1945)

The Cairn Terrier Club of Southern California

J.P. Myers and Steve Goldstein, the brains behind the Toto Memorial Marker. Congratulations gentlemen on a job well done.

Olivia Francis with Toto

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