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For the first time, Nicholas Meyer's teenage movie
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Dan Carino
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Episode 13574
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For the first time, Nicholas Meyer's teenage movie

Wrath of Khan's director Nick Meyer shares the movie he made with his dad in the late 1950s ... sound intersection ideas, literally ... Pasadena's homeless champion retires after 21 years ... the last slavery movies you will ever need to see ...

A scene from Nicholas and Bernard Meyer's "Around the World in 80 Days." That's Nick in the top hat.
A scene from Nicholas and Bernard Meyer's "Around the World in 80 Days." That's Nick in the top hat.
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Nicholas Meyer
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Wrath of Khan's director Nick Meyer shares the movie he made with his dad in the late 1950s ... sound intersection ideas, literally ... Pasadena's homeless champion retires after 21 years ... the last slavery movies you will ever need to see ...

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Nicholas Meyer, who made "The Wrath of Khan" and "Time After Time," shares his very first movie with KPCC's Off-Ramp.
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Sound artist Alan Nakagawa joined the LA Department of Transportation to create work that aims to help stop pedestrian deaths and cyclist deaths in intersections
84 years ago, as small cameras were revolutionizing photography, American photographers like Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham took a backward step.
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Critic Tim Cogshell agrees with Snoop Dogg. We don't need any new slavery movies. But there are a few old ones you should see before you close the book on the genre.
The singer, Lorely Rodriguez is a graduate of the LA County High School for the Arts and records amazing, intricate solo records under the name "Empress Of."
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After seeing his agency through 21 years of continuous growth, Marv Gross says it's time to do something else. He also reveals how Union Station got its name, despite being miles from the downtown L.A. train station of the same name.