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'Life at the Marmont': 6 stories of Hollywood stars at the famous hotel
The Chateau Marmont in Hollywood has played host to everyone from Grace Kelly to Johnny Depp. Here are a few of the stories from the hotel's former owner, Raymond Sarlot, and writer Fred E. Basten.
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Dr. Seuss: 7 adaptations of his beloved stories
As "The Lorax" arrives in theaters this weekend, here are seven previous Seuss film adaptations – the good and the bad.
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4 holiday TV classics that came from the printed page
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'Life at the Marmont': 6 stories of Hollywood stars at the famous hotel
The Chateau Marmont in Hollywood has played host to everyone from Grace Kelly to Johnny Depp. Here are a few of the stories from the hotel's former owner, Raymond Sarlot, and writer Fred E. Basten.
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Chapter & Verse Roseanne Montillo discusses 'The Lady and Her Monsters,' her book about Mary Shelley
Frankenstein's monster – as imagined by Mary Shelley – has lived on in popular imagination for decades. Montillo discusses reanimation and the ways that religion and pop culture have changed our view of Shelley's characters.
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Google Doodle: Howard Carter and the pharaoh's curse (+video)
When Howard Carter, the archaeologist honored by Wednesday's Google Doodle, discovered King Tut's tomb, he inadvertently sparked the myth of the pharaoh's curse. Howard Carter didn't believe in curses. Yet the false rumors persisted.
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Dr. Seuss: 7 adaptations of his beloved stories
As "The Lorax" arrives in theaters this weekend, here are seven previous Seuss film adaptations – the good and the bad.
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4 holiday TV classics that came from the printed page
You've undoubtedly read Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!," but did you know that the Rankin/Bass TV favorite "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (you know, the one with the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser) also began as a children's book? For millions of children today Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without certain beloved TV specials. But here's to remembering that the best of the lot all came from the printed page.
12/08/2011 05:01 pm -
Horizons The origin of that terrible Monster Mash song
The Monster Mash song is back – thankfully, only for another day.
10/30/2009 01:00 am
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