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Keyword: Los Angeles

Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood

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In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world’s largest Christian center. […]

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion…

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