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4 January 2011

Please do not discriminate against us.

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26 December 2010

Ronni Chasen’s restaurant renaming

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One night in the early 1980s, the boss took his attractive protegee to dinner at the legendary LA restaurant, Chasen’s. The New Yorker Veronica Sue Cohen emerged with a California-friendly name. She didn’t look far for inspiration. [...]

24 June 2010

Jane Russell remembers “Gentleman” Jack Cole

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Jane Russell speaks at Hollywood Heritage about choreographer Jack Cole, who coached her and Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk’s comic masterpiece, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” She says Cole directed the film’s dance sequences. [...]

4 July 2008

Girl Power

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Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are giant amazons in Howard Hawks’s comic masterpiece, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), projected on the humongous screen of the vintage Los Angeles Theater (1931) on Broadway in downtown L.A. in last summer’s Last Remaining Seats. [...]