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...Which 1989 Gus Van Sant film stars Matt Dillon as Bob Hughes and William S Burroughs as a priest?...
...“To me, it’s kind of rainy weather,” the executive said as Beverly Hills was being pelted with an unusually heavy storm....
...“Foreigners know Beverly Hills and want Beverly Hills,” he says. “Beverly Hills is like a brand name to them.”...
...In 1951, in a parking lot in Beverly Hills, Hollywood producer Walter Wanger approached a green Cadillac convertible with a gun....
...We are in the home of a middle-class African American family, where Beverly (Nicola Hughes) is fussing over a birthday meal for her mother....
...(both at The Beverly Hills Hotel), Peter Sellers (The Dorchester), and the endless heap of junkies, bohos, beats and celebrity bums who got stuck at New York’s Chelsea Hotel....
...Close by is the grand Beverly Wilshire, which was immortalised in Pretty Woman, and The Beverly Hills Hotel, where Howard Hughes kept a bungalow for many years....
...John Reed is the FT’s Bangkok regional correspondent Helen Barrett: my mother, Glenys My mother, Glenys Hughes, was clever, beautiful and exceptionally funny....
...One start-up that provided earlier hope of an LA tech renaissance was Beverly Hills-based MySpace, the social network that once rivalled Facebook....
...Group controlled by billionaire Wang Jianlin, whose investments in recent years have included the AMC cinema chain, the Sunseeker yacht business and a sought-after plot of land on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly...
...Once owned by Howard Hughes and used for the manufacture or aeroplane parts, the building was most recently a movie-prop warehouse. Ruscha moved in four years ago....
...When the Beverly Hills Hotel opened in 1912, there was no Beverly Hills....
...“The tradition of the Beverly Hills Hotel always mattered to me.”...
...DeMille, RKO’s Joseph Kennedy and Howard Hughes....
...Siegel met his end in a spray of machine gun fire in a still unsolved murder at the Beverly Hills home of his girlfriend Virginia Hill in 1947....
...Mortgage foreclosure rates are close to 2 per cent of all homes – about twice the national average – while the market downturn has also extended to wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills....
...Satellite technology was born in Los Angeles, and great aviators such as Howard Hughes built companies there....
...Lombard: The hidden cost of rights issues Deeply discounted rights issues are the fashion among UK banks, says Chris Hughes....
...Beverly Hughes, youth justice minister, said it was “not a day for statistics”, but that violent crime and gun crime “were actually going down”. However, she conceded that “the job is not done”....
...Yet sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel this week, not far from his southern California home, Landis looks calmer despite the potential ruin of his career and reputation....
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