Charles McGrath - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:30:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 LA Confidential Calibrates Clint Eastwood LACMA Tribute Another awards season march for Clint Eastwood is set to begin this week with Thursday’s AFIFest premiere of his latest directorial effort J. Edgar and Saturday’s Art + Film gala at LACMA. The 81-year-old maestro is also this week participating in special DGA and SAG member screenings of his latest effort.

Ahead of the LACMA event, which will also honor artist John Baldasseri, LA Confidential magazine has shared a Q&A primer conducted by event co-chair (and museum trustee) Eva Chow with gala organizer Michael Govan. Govan makes a surprising revelation about the museum’s ongoing endowments:

”In the last ten years, while our donations have grown, the one category we’ve had almost no donations to has been film. But I don’t think that’s because there’s no interest, and I don’t think it’s because there’s no generosity in this city—I think it’s just never been focused.”

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/lacma-artfilm-clint-eastwood-john-baldasseri-eva-chow-michael-govan_b43839#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/lacma-artfilm-clint-eastwood-john-baldasseri-eva-chow-michael-govan_b43839 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=43839 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:00:19 +0000 New York Times Magazine Uncorks Fabulous Hugh Hefner Profile After spending some time in Los Angeles before Christmas with Playboy potentate Hugh Hefner, Charles McGrath proves via this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that you can freshly report on a man who has been covered and tweeted about ad nauseum. Beginning with a killer lede:

Hugh Hefner already has his final resting place picked out and paid for: a crypt next to Marilyn Monroe’s in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Not that he has plans to use it anytime soon.

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