1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s...
In one of the most popular sketches of the last few seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” Heidi Gardner lost it. Playing a sober-faced news anchor, she...
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first...
In Topanga Canyon on Saturday morning, suspended midair from an electricity line, hung the smoldering top of a utility pole. The pole itself had burned away....
To live in Los Angeles is to be regularly reminded that much of what surrounds its residents is fleeting. That pertains, most essentially, to human life...