In the 1920s, actor Rudolph Valentino sparked an international tango craze when he performed an Argentinian style tango in the silent film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Read more...
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UCLA’s Social Dance Club, with the Ballroom Dance Club and International Folk Dance Club, will bring the Argentinian tango experience to UCLA by hosting a milonga, or Argentinian-style tango party.
To most modern movie stars, putting out 75 films in only 37 years would be quite a remarkable task. For Spencer Tracy, whose acting career lasted from 1930 to 1967, it wasn't. Read more...
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UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE
Spencer Tracy (right) in “The Power and the Glory” (1933). The film has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which is presenting a film series on Tracy titled “Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing.”
It is definitely a good sign when a new Westwood restaurant "“ barely visible from the street "“ has a line out the door for hours at a time, and patrons know that it is worth the wait. Read more...
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A pizza from 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria.
Life is a gift, love, open it up / You're a child of destiny / You're the child of my destiny / You're my child with the child from Destiny's Child." Read more...
In a scene from the 1924 silent film "Kino-Eye," a slice of beef from the marketplace flies back into the cow. The audience sees the cow's skin come back on the bone and a knife cut across the cow's throat in reverse, bringing the cow back to life, back to the stockyard and then finally to the countryside from where it came. Read more...
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
NBC made a wise decision to premiere the sophomore season of its breakout reality hit show "The Voice" after Sunday's Super Bowl, as more than 37 million people stuck around to watch judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine audition hopeful singers. Read more...
Liza Johnson's "Return" is a brilliant take on a familiar story. A soldier's return to civilian life has been the subject of countless films, though too often rehashed narratives undermine the complexity of what U.S. servicemen and servicewomen experience upon returning home. Read more...
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