To honor the legend, the Chinese Theatre has teamed up with Playboy to run a seven-day Marilyn Monroe film festival, showing seven of the actress' most beloved feature films.
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Chinese Theatre Celebrates Marilyn Monroe With 7 Days of Her Movies
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Vampire-Con: A Weekend Fest You Can Really Sink Your Teeth Into
Polish your fangs and hide your garlic--today is the start of Vampire-Con, which is "the world’s first convention, devoted to everything vampire." With events scheduled throughout the weekend to thrill, entertain, and enlighten, enthusiasts can satisfy their blood-lust by attending films, discussions, and a ball.
Pencil This In: Friday
For those of us not stuck on the 15 to Vegas, here's what's going on around town tonight:
Local Film by Dave Markey Chosen for Rotterdam Film Festival
Remember when Chewbacca allegedly attacked Marilyn Monroe? If you have ever driven past Mann's Chinese theater, you have seen the assortment of costumed characters posing with tourists. The Reinactors, Dave Markey's documentary that follows the strange bunch who haunt Mann's, has just been chosen for the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival.
So Bad It's Good Film Fest: Road House
Everyone has a guilty pleasure when it comes to terrible movies (mine is . Patrick Swayze stars as James Dalton, a "cooler" who is brought in to tame the rowdy Double Deuce bar in Jasper, Missouri where he intones such memorably awful lines as, "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."
TV Junkie: Tuesday Night Picks
5pm-Infinity Roy Rogers Film Fest TCM - All you could ever want of the singing cowboy. 9:00pm Big Brother 8 CBS - Veto! Veto! Veto!! [What's it all about Tony?] 9:00pm Wide Angle PBS/KCET - Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, and spiraling debts drive Indian cotton farmers to suicide in this typical example of uplifting fare from public television. 9:00pm i-Caught ABC - Parkour (as featured in LAist within the last week) athletes jump...
Sex Pistol Steve Jones to host a Night of Punk
The lovable Indie 103.1 dj, Steve Jones, the Sex Pistol guitarist who is known to whip out his guitar during interviews with his guests and jam, is hosting a evening of punk rock and film tonight.
Japanese Punks Do It Louder
It is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. California has the largest community of Asian Americans in the country and we're having the largest and most rapid growth of that population. We have it on good authority that these folks, at least those with Japanese roots, want to rock.
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