The A.K. Smiley Public Library’s Southern California in Film series continues at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, with a screening ...

Get this, suckers: Bugsy Siegel didn’t invent Las Vegas; Ruth Lusch did. Lusch was the first press agent for Las Vegas, hired in 1941 to help turn the town that sprang up 25 miles from the new Hoover ...

Warren Beatty’s rendering of Bugsy Siegel in the film Bugsy doesn’t measure up in the eyes of a woman who met the mobster. Marie Glaeser was a 31-year-old movie chorus girl who went by the name Ginger ...

`This isn`t really a gangster film at all,” Barry Levinson, the director of ”Bugsy” is explaining. ”I certainly didn`t set out to make a gangster film, and in fact I have no interest in making a ...

Annette Bening and Warren Beatty met on the set of the 1991 movie; the pair share four children, including Ella, 24 Michael Buckner/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty, Arturo ...

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the ...

Call him Benjamin Siegel, or just plain Ben. Call him Bugsy to his face, and you may end up swimming off Catalina Island with the fishes. Implementing the words of the popular Johnny Mercer-Harold ...

Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” notwithstanding, “Bugsy” declares itself as the ultimate paean to old Los Angeles, before the freeways, before the “red eye,” before the studios were taken over by agents, ...

Think of Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby, a romantic egotist to the end. Think of his wonderful shirts. Think of his clothes, his charm, his charisma, his American yearning to be better, to climb in society, ...