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Chapters: Diane Keaton, Matt Leinart, Lenny Dykstra, Steve Rocco, Ken Faught, Bill Medley, Jamie Martin, Jeff Robinson, Cynthia Denzler, David Bernal, Brett Halsey, Larry Lutz, Lou Correa, Erasmo Ramirez, Ben Agajanian, Isaac Curtis, David Aldana, Terry Rossio, Bryan Save, Rueben Martinez, Lawrence Coburn Taylor, Michael B. Jordan, Kathy Young, Roy Estrada, Wade Boteler, B. D. Hyman, Jeff Kemp, Donn Moomaw, Miguel A. Pulido, David Gibson, Kelly Talavou, Louie Olivos Jr., Lenny Vandermade, Rubí Sandoval. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actor, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starting in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Films Keaton has been in have earned a cumulative gross of over USD$1.1 billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, and occasional singer. Born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, Calif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=202664 ... Read more

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More magazine February 2007Single issue magazine192 pagesDiane Keaton coverBeautiful, Bold, and breaking all the rules. A new look at life after 40. ... Read more

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Originally published in a deluxe limited edition, this compact book captures the magnificence of the city’s architecture and breathtaking natural surroundings—from the most coveted homes of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, to the best examples of modern and contemporary architecture by the sea. From the Eames’s Case Study House to Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall, this book spans Venice Beach to Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills mansions to motels, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to the Chateau Marmont, and Deco theaters to drive-ins. From high culture to pop, Tim Street-Porter conveys the essence of the L.A. experience in stunning color and detail. ... Read more

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Sunny delight
There is a much larger version, published in 2006, which I had on my Wish List for ages, just waiting for the price to go down but it never budged so I went for this newer mini edition.The original was 240 pages and this mini is 264 so both books may not be exactly the same.

Overall a pleasant enough title to remember LA by, though it's not a tourist memory-jogger but concentrates on buildings: public and private.Street-Porter has lived in LA long enough to know what to photograph and he presents a rich colorful selection but I was slightly disappointed by the book's presentation.The photos don't seem to have any particular order.I would have preferred to see themes like LA modern; commercial high-rise; retail; gardens; ocean front; signs; classics (Schindler; Neutra, Lloyd Wright, Neff etc).

I also thought the book's design suffers from a common photo book fault in having all the captions at the back: so get prepared to flip a lot.Actually the captions are short enough be accommodated with the photos as there is enough page space and where the images bleed the following page would have been fine.

This mini edition joins the increasing number of visual books about LA architecture. One I enjoyed is Looking At Los Angeleswith225 photos from eighty-eight photographers and presented in a large landscape format.Street-Porter has also published others with his latest: L.A. Modern looking at thirty-eight buildings in photographic detail though many of the photos also appear in this mini edition.

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Los Angeles in all its Glory!
What a lovely compact collection of gorgeous images of all the wonderful and varied architecture of Los Angeles.I have stopped off here several times now when enroute to or from New Zealand and made my way around just a few parts of the city, but now that I have seen all that there is on offer I feel the need to explore further on my next visit. ... Read more

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Chapters: Grace Kelly, Leslie Nielsen, Sandra Bullock, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Sydney Pollack, Joanne Woodward, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, James Caan, Allison Janney, Christopher Meloni, Dylan Mcdermott, Sherie Rene Scott, Connie Britton, Amanda Bearse, Mark Baker, Eileen Dietz, Mark Rydell, Otis Young. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 176. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 September 14, 1982) was an American Academy Award-winning actress and Princess consort of Monaco. In April 1956 Kelly married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and was commonly referred to as Princess Grace. After embarking on an acting career in 1948, at the age of 18, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance as Best Actress. Retiring from acting at 26 and entering upon her duties in Monaco, she and Prince Rainier became the parents of three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie. She also retained her American roots, maintaining a dual US and Monégasque citizenship. She died on September 14th, 1982, two months before her 53rd birthday. She lost control of her vehicle and crashed after suffering a stroke. Her daughter Princess Stephanie, who was in the car with her, survived the accident. In June 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her #13 in their list o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42620 ... Read more

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Tabloid Pictures
"Keaton zeroes in on the collision of sleaze and sentimentality....Like other archive raiders before her, she's also alert to a picture's potential as accidental art, pop or otherwise....The result is closer to outsider art than Weegee, and LOCAL NEWS is less about photojournalism than postmodern appropriation. Still, these photos have a weird poignancy and Keaton, that savvy softie, dedicates the book to "those who slip away unnoticed.""These 92 duotones... Hearken back to the days of whiskey-breathed news hacks and cigar-chamoing shutterbugs leering out from behind weathered Speed Graphics with no. 2 press bulbs and lightsaber flashes.... Good fun at a good price." ... Read more

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"These 92 duotones... Hearken back to the days of whiskey-breathed news hacks and cigar-chamoing shutterbugs leering out from behind weathered Speed Graphics with no. 2 press bulbs and lightsaber flashes.... Good fun at a good price."--Library Journal ... Read more

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Stunningly ordinary.
This should have been an interesting idea for a book, a bit of nostalgic tabloid froth.Instead I was disappointed to find it is just a collection of less than mediocre images from the photo morgue of the LA Herald Express. I don't think the publishers realised the essence of down market newspapers are the headlines and photos, the story would be written to fill the remaining space. To separate the headline from the photo really doesn't work, so each page photo in the book should have shown a small tear-out from the paper with the punchy headline and the photo.To have one without the other produces a very dull book, which is probably why I was able to buy a copy at a really low remainder price.

There are very few photos in the book that warrant a second look taken as they were for each day's paper and not history.Many of them have small amounts of retouching which is a bit odd as the image quality was of no interest to the readers, some have retouching that is just plain amateurish, a woman's tears on page fifty-six and a building aflame on pages 130-131.A few show the picture cropping marks and the paint used for cut-outs.

All the photos show the ordinary folk of Los Angeles in moments of anguish, no celebrities, politicians or momentous events, the Herald left all that stuff to the more professionally produced dailies.Comparing these photos with the ones from the New York tabloid Daily News ('New York Exposed' ISBN 0810943050 or 'New York Noir' ISBN 0847821722) shows just how parochial, ordinary and dull the Herald's output was but the title of the book is, after all, local news!

Quelle Disappointing!
Having read NY Noir I waited for this one with bated breath. I could have unbated by breath, I was mightily disappointed. The photos were average at best, some were even white-outs. I can't imagine why those would even be included. The captions/ descriptions were placed on the page before each set of pictures and I found it very bothersome to have to flip back and forth.If only the subject matter had been a bit more compelling...oh I don't know why, but the book just did not move me. It took me about 15 minutes to read the entire book. If you are really interested in true crime/photography, any book by Weege or New York Noir are two I highly recommend. Save your money on this one and look at it in the library.

Highly recommend this.
Hmm... interesting.Diane Keaton's dark side is something I hope we get to see more of.With this fascinating book, HEAVEN, UNSTRUNG HEROES, even her TWIN PEAKS episode... she's clearly, not only a gifted actress, but anintelligent director with a strong creative voice.I only hope she gets aproject worthy of her talents, instead of more pop fodder. :-)But fornow, I'll relish this powerful, insightful collection.

Vintage press photos are good fun at a good price
Diane Keaton. Local News: Tabloid Pictures From the "Los Angeles Herald Express" 1936-1961. D.A.P.: dist. by Art Publishers Inc. 1999. 144p. photogs. ISBN 1-891024-13-2. PHOTOG

The "L.A. Herald Express" was a tabloid rag started by Citizen Hearst in 1931, whichmiraculously managed to line the bottoms of bird cages for 30 years untilmerging with the L.A. Examiner. The paper thrived on grab-you-by-the-throatheadlines, sensationalistic stories, and photos of everything fromtear-jerker shots of lost dogs, to gruesome crime scenes of headless andhandless corpses, to fires, crossdressers, and school kids practicingair-raid drills in hopes that hiding under their desks would protect themfrom being turned into raisins in the event of a nuclear exchange with theCommies. These 92 duotones selected by editor Keaton (yes, it's THAT DianeKeaton) hearken back to the days of whiskey-breathed news hacks andcigar-champing shutterbugs leering out from behind weathered Speed Graphicswith no. 2 press bulbs and lightsaber flashes. Mostly kitschy now, theynonetheless have value in showing how editors enhanced the emotional kickof a still photo by retouching the prints with drawn-in tears, etc. Pressphotography is gaining acceptance as an art form, so this volume should beof interest. Good fun at a good price. Recommended. ... Read more

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