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Virtuoso Bad Boy

It somehow seems ironic that Viggo Mortensen, virtuoso bad boy, wants to meet at the Snow White Coffee Shop, and now sits beneath a looming portrait of Prince Charming. You may remember him from his turn as the wired, paraplegic ex-con in Carlito's Way - he tries to rat on Al Pacino. In Sean Penn's The Indian Runner, he abandons Patricia Arquette in the throes of labour only to bash in Dennis Hopper's head in a bar, and in Daylight, his wannabe hero disastrously attempts to one-up Sylvester Stal
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Caring for the Ones Left Behind - Issuu

Eden Rule lost her best friend and husband of 18 years, Deputy Constable Caleb Rule, on May 29, 2020, when he was killed in the line of duty at age 37. In 2021, First Responders Children’s Foundation awarded college scholarships to 209 students. This is one family’s story.

My name is Eden Rule, and I live in Richmond, Texas. I’d known Caleb since I was 12. We both played trumpet in band. Caleb was way better than me. Any instrument you handed him, he could figure out how to play. We were marrie
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Ruth Asawa


• Born in Norwalk, Calif.; lived in San Francisco from 1949 until her death in 2013.

Internationally recognized for her distinctive wire sculptures, pioneering artist Ruth Asawa left her mark on the landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area through her public commissions and on countless students through her activism on behalf of arts education.

Asawa’s artistic talent was evident from an early age, but she had little spare time for the art-making she enjoyed while working on her family’s farm
GLOBAL HEROES MAGAZINE •

News: Caring for Hidden Heroes: Putting First Responder Families First

Finally, core to the Foundation’s mission, they awarded 126 college scholarships to children whose first responder parent was killed or injured in the line of duty. These children represent hope and resilience in the face of unimaginable tragedy, and many dedicate their lives to helping others to honor the sacrifice their first responder parent made.

One of those students is Samantha Switzer, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from NYU. Samantha’s father, William Switzer
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Joan Didion

One of America’s leading authors since the 1960s, Didion has achieved that rare combination of critical acclaim and wide popularity. Her spare and carefully crafted prose, which explores contradictions and seeks truths beyond the accepted mythology of the state, has defined California to readers around the world. Her later essays have explored universal themes of life, love and loss.

Didion was born and raised in Sacramento. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Didion won Vogue Magazine’s prestig
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Charles & Ray Eames

Ray Eames was born and raised in Sacramento, CA; both Charles and Ray lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA from 1941

Among the most important American designers of the 20th century, Charles and Ray Eames made groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, toys and the photographic arts.

Artist Bernice “Ray” Kaiser and architect Charles Eames merged their lives and careers in 1941. Using new materials in innovative ways, they produced influen
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Alice Waters

Founder of the Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, Alice Waters is considered by many to be the originator of “California Cuisine.” Her philosophy of using only fresh, locally grown organic ingredients and her advocacy of sustainable agriculture has made her one of America’s most influential chefs.

In the 1960s, at a simple dinner in Brittany, Waters experienced a culinary epiphany. “I’ve remembered this dinner a thousand times,” she says. “The trout had just come from the stream a
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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange’s photographs have etched the faces of the poor and forgotten into the American memory. Her compassionate images of disadvantaged Native Americans, displaced families of the Great Depression, and interned Japanese Americans during World War II helped develop documentary photography as we know it today.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, she contracted polio at age seven and was left with a lifelong limp. After studying photography as a young woman in New York City, in 1918 she
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Amy Tan

Born in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrants, Amy Tan rejected her mother’s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She chose to write fiction instead. Her novels are “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Kitchen God’s Wife,” “The Hundred Secret Senses,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” and “Saving Fish from Drowning,” all New York Times bestsellers and recipients of various awards. She is also the author of a memoir, two children’s books, and numerous magazine articles. Her work has bee
Los Angeles Times •

A sister's in the picture

Hollywood has been fertile ground for brothers. It has accommodated the Warner brothers, the Marx brothers, the Coen brothers, the Farrelly brothers, the Hughes brothers, the Wayans brothers.

So where are all the sisters?

“There’s so many brothers!” exclaims Jennifer Todd, who partnered with her older sister Suzanne for 13 years to produce blockbuster movies as Team Todd. She is probably thinking of the Weitz brothers, the Wachowski brothers, the Wilson brothers.

“It’s endless!” agrees “Tao o
Los Angeles Times •

Emily Blunt's crowning achievement

The diamond ring on Emily Blunt’s finger is so blinding, it appears she might have ransacked the Crown Jewels during her recent stint playing the teenage queen of England in her new movie “The Young Victoria.”

Wearing a skin-tight, black Roland Mouret mini-dress, long hair loose around her shoulders, Blunt, 26, described by her colleagues as “warm, friendly, funny and down-to-earth” enters the lounge of the Four Seasons Hotel looking cool and glamorous, more ‘60s Mod than 19th century empress.
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Sarah Ferguson produces, and protects, 'The Young Victoria'

Sarah Ferguson, Britain’s famous flame-haired divorcée, is haunted by old loves.

“I didn’t fight for my own heart in my marriage” she says, looking slender and chic in a black dress and Christian Louboutin high heels during a recent visit to Los Angeles.

She is referring to, of course, her tumultuous, high-profile relationship with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II. Her candid confession may explain why she was attracted to the royal romance at the center of “The Yo
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EXTRA EXTRAS

Nathan Johnson has landed in one of the longest unemployment lines in Los Angeles. Just another face in the crowd, Johnson is here because he’s hoping to get a job as, yes, just another face in the crowd. But the crowd keeps getting bigger every day.

The lobby at Central Casting is so packed it seems impossible that one more person could squeeze through the door. Johnson, 30, handsome and elegant in a crisp, white shirt, has been waiting to sign up for an hour. “It feels like two hours,” he say
Los Angeles Times •

Maggie Q in 'Deception'

MAGGIE Q wasn’t supposed to play the brief but memorable role of Tina in Swiss director Marcel Langenegger’s debut feature, “Deception.”

The Hawaiian native auditioned for the starring role -- the femme fatale who leads lonely, innocent Ewan McGregor down a decadent, double-crossing path, littered with deceit and strewed with murder. It’s a steamy part, worthy of a Hitchcock heroine.

But that role went to Michelle Williams.

“It came down to the Oscar-nominated actress, or me,” Maggie says, “w
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Ibuprofen, snacks, nasty encounters

You know things have changed in Venice when a guy in a Porsche blows past your picket line and gives you the finger.

A woman in a Mercedes followed him a few minutes later by rolling down her window and screaming, “My husband is out of work because of you . . . !”

It was raining. The traffic at a crawl on Abbot Kinney. We didn’t have umbrellas. We were marching in front of the new Smart Car dealership in a slow, monotonous circle, trying to get passing cars to honk. My first location picket.