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So what are you going to do with your Memorial Day Monday? If you're out in Southern California and looking for a really spectacular patriotic event to attend ... I'm afraid that you're about a week late at this point. You see, the City of Torrance 's 52 nd Armed Forces Day Celebration...

When Sam Claflin 's agent told him that he had an audition for " Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ," this just-two-years-out-of-the- London-Academy-of-Music-and-Dramatic-Arts performer was not what you'd call optimistic. "I told him 'Oh, what's the point? This...

You know, I kind of feel sorry for all of you Disneyana fans who live out in the Los Angeles area. Why For? Because starting tomorrow ... There are so many Mouse-related events going on in & around Southern California that it will literally be impossible to attend them all. Want proof? Okay then...

You're going to see a lot of people taking cheap shots at " Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 " today. People making jokes to the effect that this new home premiere is a dog and/or a real bitch to sit through. Copyright Disney Enterprises, inc. All rights reserved Which isn't entirely fair...

For Tony Award winner Gary Beach , his association with " Beauty and the Beast " pretty much began the way the rest of ours did. In a movie theater. "I was living in LA when Disney premiered the film at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. It was a really big deal. They had a...

I know, I know. It’s just the first week of May. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, Summer blockbuster season starts tomorrow with the release of “ Iron Man 2 .” But before the Web goes wild with predictions of how much this “ Iron Man ” sequel will earn over its opening weekend, I thought it might...

Pink’s is a LA institution. For 70 years now, Los Angelenos have been making the trip to the corner of Melrose and La Brea. Sometimes standing in hour-&-a-half-long lines, just so they can then sample some of the 21 types of hot dogs that are loving prepared at this acclaimed eatery. Some tourists...

For the past few months, JHM has been talking up “ Waking Sleeping Beauty ,” that terrific new documentary about the Second Golden Age of Disney Feature Animation. Well, this film goes into limited release this Friday in New York, LA, Chicago and San Francisco. The 1975 graduating class of Cal Arts included...

Given the strong positive reaction that Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman ’s Window on Main Street ceremony received this past Thursday morning, Disneyland Resort President George Kalogridis remarked “ … we should open the Park like this every day.” But – then again -- how could you not love an event...

This past Friday night, Anthony Lyn -- the director of the North American touring company of Disney & Cameron Mackintosh ’s “ Mary Poppins ” – strode onstage at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre and said that he had a few brief announcements to make before that performance could get underway. First of all, Lyn...

If you're a pop culture fan, you were fixated on “ Doctor Who ” this past weekend as David Tennant regenerated and then exited this long-running BBC science fiction program . Copyright 2010 BBC. All Rights Reserved While I myself have enjoyed Tennant’s take on the good Doctor, David’s four-series-stint...

It all started with a shoebox. To be specific, a shoebox full of old travel photos from the 1940s. “I was talking with Diane Disney Miller ,” Ted Thomas remembered. “And she told me that J.B. Kaufman – while he was doing research for this book that J.B. was writing about those Good Neighbor films that...

Is it just me? Or does it seem like – every other week – someone new is inventing yet another reason to go after “ The Princess and the Frog ”? Almost from the moment that this Walt Disney Animation Studios’ production was officially announced back in March of 2007, there have been individuals &...

Given that 125,000 people are expected to attend Comic-Con International this week, chances are that at least a few of these folks have never been to a pop culture event quite like this. So they may not know quite what expect once they get to San Diego . Not to worry, though. I’ve prepared a few visual...

In response to last week's review of Jeff Kurtti 's newest book , " Walt Disney's Imagineering Legends and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park ," I got the following e-mail: Not everyone who reads JimHillMedia is interested in the Disney theme parks. Some of us come to your site because we want to learn...

The headlines seem never to end: " Producers make final offer ," " Industry Braces for Possible Walkout ," " Strike Threatens to Bring Hollywood to a standstill ." etc. etc. etc. And for the past year or two right up to this week, the situation looks pretty grim in the "dream factory" here in LA-LA-Land...

Anyone who's ever been stuck in traffic on the 5 or the 10 will tell you that Southern California already has 'way too many cars. That said, I imagine that even the crabbiest of commuters will still crack a smile once they see the four-wheeled characters who'll be going on display at the Petersen Automotive...

Remember how I mentioned in yesterday's story that there are senior officials at the Walt Disney Company who believe that " ... the HSM phenomenon will soon blow itself out." Well, this belief does not extend to Disney Theatrical . If anything, the folks who brought us " The Lion King ," " Mary Poppins...

Natalie Dressed writes in to say: Thanks for plugging ASIFA-Hollywood 's upcoming screening of " Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure ." That was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. And if I actually lived out in LA, I would definitely have made the trip over to the American Film Institute...

What with last month's wildfires , this week's writers' strike , and Britney Spears still out there somewhere behind the wheel ... Haven't the residents of Los Angeles County suffered enough? Don't the 10-million-plus people who live in California's most populous county deserve some sort of break from...