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100 unusual facts about Los Ángeles


1997 New York Liberty season

The Liberty's and WNBA's first game was played on June 21, 1997 in Los Angeles.

Air Pollution Control Act

California was the first state to act against air pollution when the metropolis of Los Angeles began to notice deteriorating air quality.

Al Muratsuchi

He is a Democrat representing the 66th district, encompassing parts of the South Bay, Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County.

Ali Banisadr

Ali Banisadr's work is in the public collections of The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Olbricht Collection in Germany, Francois Pinault Foundation in Italy, London's The Saatchi Gallery, Vienna's Sammlung Essl, and The Wurth Collection in Germany.

Amerikana

When philosophy student Peter (Goorjian) is abandoned by his Danish girlfriend in Los Angeles, his friend Chris (Duval) invites him to South Dakota to claim a Harley Davidson he has inherited from an uncle.

Ángeles González-Sinde

González-Sinde studied Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid and did a Masters in Cinema Scriptwriting at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Arafat Chekrouni

Chekrouni represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he was defeated in the second round by Italy's Paolo Canè.

Ark Yuey Wong

He then opened a Chinese Herb Shop and a Kung Fu school by the name of Wah Que returning to China in 1931 to teach the Wong family, and coming back to Los Angeles again in 1934, receiving the title of Grandmaster at 31.

Betty Eisner

After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bigmouth buffalo

Within California they have also been introduced to the aqueduct system of Los Angeles.

Black Cat Squadron

After his retirement, he and his family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became an ardent activist for ROCAF POWs' rights, particularly the right of POWs to return to Taiwan to reunite with their families after imprisonment in mainland China.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.

Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) was a British-American nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the seminal Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.

Bruce Winstein

Bruce Winstein (25 September 1943, Los Angeles – 28 February 2011) was an experimental physicist and cosmologist noted for his early work in elementary particle physics, particularly work toward demonstrating a serious asymmetry between particles and their anti-particles (CP violation).

Canadian soccer league system

When Major League Soccer (MLS) won the USSF's competition for USA Division 1 status in 1993, the APSL lost teams in 1996 in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York when MLS started three years later.

Carl Bean

Before founding the first church of the denomination, the Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles, in 1975, Bean was a Motown and disco singer, noted particularly for his version of the early gay liberation song "I Was Born This Way".

Carton

The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.

Christian Edward Elder

He is currently producing an untitled concert documentary about Los Angeles poets.

Claire McNab

Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her father's business and his business partner.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.

Classixx

Tyler Blake and Michael David, childhood friends, started a DJ duo in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

In their early twenties, Classixx began to define a new sound for the Los Angeles electronic music scene.

Cliff Lyons

Lyons also played in the 1987 game IV - that year's exhibition match in Los Angeles.

Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

Court Jesters

In 1994 The Court Jesters sent a team of improvisors to the World Theatresports Championships in Los Angeles.

Dale Jennings

This organization became the dominant organization in Los Angeles and with the financial assistance of Jennings' sister Elaine and her husband James Porter its magazine became, for a period of time, the voice of the gay and lesbian movement.

Delta, Utah

One of the main sources of income for Delta is a power plant operated by the Intermountain Power Agency, known as the Intermountain Power Project or I.P.P. It is also referred to as Intermountain Power Service Corporation or I.P.S.C. This coal-powered power plant supplies power for much of Los Angeles county in California.

East Downtown Houston

The district has long been known for a relatively large homeless population (comparable to Skid Row, Los Angeles but on a far smaller scale).

Elscint

The VDP1 product was displayed in trade show in Los Angeles and drew the attention of General Electric, the world leader in medical imaging; and in 1971, Elscint and General Electric signed an exclusive distribution agreement in North America.

Emily Hancock Siedeberg

She married James Alexander McKinnon (died 1949) in Los Angeles on 8 October 1928 and would be known as E.H. Siedeberg McKinnon and Emily H. Siedeberg-McKinnon.

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Flagging dance

Flagger groups formed in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 1990s, and were often part of the backdrop of circuit party events.

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

George W. Kelham

supervising architect for the Westwood campus: University of California, Los Angeles, 1927, including the design for Powell Library, Haines Hall, Kerckoff Hall, Moore Hall and the Men's Gym;

Gerald R. Allen

Gerald R. Allen (born 1942 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American born Australian ichthyologist.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Green National Convention

However, a group of Greens interested in a run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader met in Los Angeles in 1996 to nominate Nader for President and Winona LaDuke for Vice-President.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands in California since 1986.

Hemoglobin D-Punjab

Hemoglobin D-Punjab was first discovered in the early 1950s in a mixed British and American family of Indian origin from the Los Angeles area; hence it is also sometimes called “D Los Angeles”.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

Hollywood Wolves

Hollywood Wolves were a Los Angeles minor hockey team that played in the Southern California Hockey League (1941-1944) and the Pacific Coast Hockey League (1944-1950).

Improv Asylum

In addition to the theater in the North End, the Improv Asylum has also held shows in New York City and Los Angeles.

International Association of Scientologists

For U.S. citizens to qualify for tax-deduction of donations to the IAS, the funds must be paid to another corporation known as the US IAS Members' Trust, which has its office in Los Angeles, California.

Jacques Kemp

Kemp was involved in setting up the Los Angeles office in 1982, and from 1984 to 1990 he was the General Manager in Brazil.

Jean Peyrelevade

In 2006 the bank and Peyrelevade were charged in the federal court of Los Angeles with two felonies concerning false statements to the Federal Reserve.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

Jerry Vlasak

Vlasak was convicted in Los Angeles in 2006 of "targeted protesting" for demonstrating against euthanasia at animal shelters outside the home of a Department of Animal Services employee.

Jiangshan High School

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport.

John M. Fitzgerald

He received scholarships to the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he won several awards and was editor of the Law Review.

Joop Ave

Joop Ave Foreign Service Academy (1957), was brought up by his mother who lives in Los Angeles, USA.

Keith Richman

With his father, Dr. Monroe Richman, who had also previously held elective office (as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees), he practiced internal medicine in Sun Valley.

Kiryat Malakhi

The name was chosen to honor the Jewish community of Los Angeles, which contributed much of the funding for its establishment.

Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen (b. 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

Additionally, LAPPA is actively involved in supporting and promoting the surrounding communities of San Pedro and Wilmington.

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Mari Kodama

In 2002, she gave her final performance of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle, which she presented over three consecutive seasons in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.

Martin O'Doherty

Cork captured back-to-back National league titles in 1980 and 1981, however, O'Doherty's move to Los Angeles resulted in him missing these campaigns.

Martin Ralph

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.

Mel Deschenes

In 2007 it was revealed that the week prior to the bombing, Deschenes was in Los Angeles with an International Commission on Terrorism, when he reportedly told Justice Department agent Graham Pinos that he felt Sikh extremists were "likely" to have a Canadian plane "blown out of the air".

Mercy Ministries

To date, Mercy Ministries has disclosed anticipated homes to be opened in Washington DC, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Florida, Vietnam, Peru and South Africa.

Metro Autobuses del Norte

Some bus lines cross the Mexico-USA border and reach U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, San Antonio and New York City.

Michael Laing

He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in the field of x-ray crystallography, specializing in the determination of molecular structure.

Michele Fioroni

Fioroni represented his native country in the singles competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Mike Beuttler

Beuttler retired from racing the following year and eventually moved to the United States, where he died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1988, in Los Angeles, aged 48.

Mundialization

To date, more than 1000 cities and towns have declared themselves World Cities including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.

Natalie Robinson Cole

For much of her career, Cole taught inner city children in the Los Angeles area.

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Two large fundraising events are held each year to raise funds for NBCC: the Les Girls cabaret held every October in Los Angeles and the Annual New York Gala held in November in New York City.

Nexus: The Infinite City

The primary core of Nexus play is Angel City, a Los Angeles separated from Earth in 1993 and wholly subsumed into Nexus.

Norma Zarky

Zarky was the first woman to serve as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film.

Patrick Arena

The Cougars transferred to the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 1952 and left Victoria for Los Angeles in 1961.

Paul Bindrim

Paul Bindrim (born 14 August 1920, New York - died 17 December 1997, Los Angeles) was an American psychotherapist who is known as the founder of nude psychotherapy which he believed allowed people to access and express repressed feelings more easily.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Pinelands High School

In 2004, the school provided filming locations for the motion picture Ask the Dust, with the sets built to simulate Los Angeles in the 1930s.

Port Lincoln

Weightlifter Dean Lukin, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Super heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was a tuna fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s.

Queer Eye for the Straight Girl

As opposed to the original show, which is mostly set in New York City, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl is set in Los Angeles.

Rainbow Sandals

Rainbow Sandals are available online and at department and specialty stores nationwide, the original factory store in San Clemente, and two company-owned retail stores in New York City and Los Angeles.

Reseda

Reseda, Los Angeles, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California

Russell Knipp

He was inducted in the USAW Hall of Fame and the Helms Amateur Athletes Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.

Sean Carnage

Sean Carnage, born Sean Carney, is a director and producer living in Los Angeles.

Secret Passion

Secret Passion was a contemporary new wave dance production baring more than a fleeting resemblance to Madonna's True Blue album, mainly recorded in Los Angeles with American composers, musicians and arrangers, making it her first album to be recorded outside of Europe.

Sigizmund Levanevsky

In early 1936 he flew back from Los Angeles, USA to Moscow, USSR covering 19,000 kilometers (over 11,800 miles) on his way.

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

Southern California Linux Expo

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, open source and free software conference held in Los Angeles, California, since 2002.

Stone City, Iowa

One of the most recent uses of this limestone can be seen in the new Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Stun belt

It is also used during judicial hearings (e.g. in 1998, against Ronald Hawkins in Los Angeles, California for frequently interrupting Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani at a sentencing hearing).

The Dharma at Big Sur

The piece was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles and was conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The Star Chamber

Judge Hardin (Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy.

The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith

The cover art mimics that of Smith's 2000 album Figure 8, combined with photographs of the Elliott Smith memorial wall in Los Angeles, California.

The Way I Want to Touch You

In September 1973, Toni and Daryl were performing at The Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California and two men from a small F.M. station were in the audience one night.

Torg

They later established a small realm in Los Angeles, and subsequently took partial control of Berlin, splitting their reality with the New Nile Empire.

Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

It is dedicated to the Flaming Colossus nightclub in Los Angeles.

Union des Français de l'Etranger

The Union des Français de l'Etranger (French Foreign Union), or UFE, is a French organization with branches in more than 100 countries around the world in major world cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. where there is a significant French or Francophone population.

Vasily Shumov

After a decade of artistic activity in the Soviet Union he moved 1990 to Los Angeles (California, USA), where he remains an active musician, making records (both, with Center and solo), playing live shows in USA and Russia, shooting short films and creating multimedia art.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Viewbank, Victoria

In the 1980s Australian Aerial Freestyle Olympic Gold Medallist Alisa Camplin, Catherine Fitzsimmons (Pearsell model and founder of Dash Models, Los Angeles), Australian Olympic Runner Tamsyn Manou all attended Viewbank Primary School.

We'll Bring the House Down

It tells the tale of a near death flying experience suffered by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea when travelling to Los Angeles.

Western gray squirrel

Local rehabilitation experts recount the Eastern Fox Squirrels were released in urban regions of Los Angeles throughout the 20th Century.

Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre

Critics, such as David Rogers of the Los Angeles-based Jerde Partnership, have faulted Bern for neglecting to integrate such a shopping centre into the city’s urban fabric.

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

This chapter starts with a rumor that University of California, Los Angeles is holding Hitler's brain in their basement and keeping it alive.

Wikipad

The Wikipad 7 is an enterprise and video gaming tablet, running Android (4.2.2 ) produced by the independent Los Angeles-based company, Wikipad, Inc. Handheld prototypes were first shown at CES 2012 in January with the final product hitting shops in the UK accompanied by a well received TV in campaign December 2013 initiating its global roll out.


1970–71 Phoenix Suns season

Goodrich, a native of Los Angeles and who played college ball at UCLA, was traded before the season back to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he had played before being acquired in the expansion draft of 1968.

2009 Emerald Bowl

USC had won both games in the series, a 23–17 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34–7 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.

Ahmad Sohrab

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he helped write a scenario for a movie dealing with Mary Magdalene, for the actress Valeska Surratt.

Al Ferrara

After leaving baseball, he spent four years as a greeter at the Martoni Marquis on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles before going into sales for various home-improvement companies, eventually starting his own company, Major League Construction.

American Choreography Awards

These include places such as the Orpheum Theatre, El Capitan Theatre, Alex Theatre, Wilshire Ebell Theatre, The Hollywood Palace, The Museum of Flying, The Century Club, and Club Tatou.

Anthony Brancato

Arriving in Los Angeles during the early stages of the feud between Los Angeles crime family boss Jack Dragna and Mickey Cohen, Brancato was immediately able to find freelance work.

Antonio F. Coronel

Antonio Francisco Coronel (October 21, 1817 Mexico City – April 17, 1894) served as the fourth mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854.

Chaim Pinto

Rabbi Pinto's followers and descendants have a number of synagogues worldwide, including the Pinto Center synagogue on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, which was founded by Rabbi Yaacov Pinto.

Charles Navarro

The district was "in the south-central section of the city," bounded by Wilshire and Jefferson boulevards and La Brea Avenue and Main Street.

Chutes Park

The site also included, at various times, such exotic diversions as a seal pond, ostriches and the interestingly named House of Trouble and Cave of the Winds.

David Secter

He released the low-budget sex comedy Getting Together (also titled Feelin' Up in some releases) in 1976, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

George Molchan

Molchan was hired and was based in Chicago; the other additional Wienermobiles were based in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Madison, Wisconsin, the company's home.

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Institute For Figuring

Since its founding in 2003 by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim the IFF has staged public lectures in Los Angeles and New York on subjects such as tiling patterns, hyperbolic space, early computational devices, and tensegrity structures.

Jack McEvoy

He moved to Los Angeles in the late-1990s and covered the crime beat for the Times.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

John C. Goss

John C. Goss (born October 21, 1958, in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American artist and author and has lived most of his life in the Asia/Pacific region (Hawaii, Los Angeles, Bangkok).

Kathleen Sloan

Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in Los Angeles, CA and a member of the Sonus Quartet.

Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne

After nine years of marriage, she and her husband divorced, and Kyra moved to Los Angeles, where she became a contestant on Groucho Marx’s show You Bet Your Life.

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

Lord Emp

Spartan did as asked, and inherited Marlowe's fortune, his company, and even his alias, later moving Halo's headquarter's from New York to Los Angeles.

Lubomyr Kuzmak

He also contributed to the symposia organized by MAL Fobi in Los Angeles and Nicola Scopinaro in Genoa, as well as to many other American and international congresses.

M. Margaret McKeown

She ruled that it was an impermissible governmental endorsement of religion: the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution bars the government from favoring any one religion, as it specifically applied to a white metal Latin cross in the Mojave National Preserve in southern California between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Mando Fresko

Currently, he can be heard on the nation’s biggest hip-hop station, Power 106 FM (105.9) Los Angeles.

Michael Allsup

He played in numerous local bands before relocating to Los Angeles in 1968, where he met a trio of vocalists (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells), who had a recording contract with Dunhill Records and were looking for backing musicians.

My First Mister

In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), a 17-year-old "goth-punk" girl, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk.

Neil Galanter

Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.

Oscar J. Friend

Oscar Friend moved to Los Angeles at the request of Walt Disney Productions, and worked for some time as a scriptwriter for films at Universal Studios before returning to New York.

PADRES

After being pressured, however, the NCCB agreed to set up an "informal liaison committee" of five bishops: Furey, Manning of Los Angeles, Green of Tucson, Medeiros of Brownsville, and Buswell of Pueblo.

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made is the first studio album by the Los Angeles band Fol Chen.

Peter Bradley Adams

Adams was drawn to Los Angeles in the mid ‘90s to study film scoring at USC Thornton School of Music’s famed Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (SMPTV) program which is the world’s most acclaimed programs of its kind.

Rainbow Arabia

Rainbow Arabia is an electronic duo based in Los Angeles, California consisting of Future Pigeon and Whisky Biscuit keyboardist Danny Preston and wife Tiffany Preston.

Savannah Robinson

Following that, she appeared on local television on the Los Angeles KTTV show Good Day L.A..

Schroeder's Cat

They released a self-titled four-track EP in 1998 on LA label Emperor Norton Records owned by California oil heir Peter Getty, the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, where their label mates included Ladytron and the soundtracks to the Sofia Coppola films The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.

Sidique Ali Merican

He acted as deputy chef de mission for the Malaysian team at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, and chef de mission at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

St. Martin, Minnesota

St. Martin was the setting for The Chicken Doesn't Skate, a children's novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman, in which a sixth-grade nerd is transplanted there from Los Angeles.

The D-Word

Block continues to be a co-host of The D-Word, together with documentary makers Ben Kempas in Munich (from 2001), John Burgan in the United Kingdom (from 2005) and Marjan Safinia in Los Angeles (from 2009).

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

The Silver Chair

Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham along with Vincent Sieber, the Los Angeles based director of The C.S. Lewis Company, will serve as producers and work with The Mark Gordon Company on developing the script.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.

White Springs Television

White Springs Television was seen on outlets including WANN-LD 32.4 in Atlanta (formerly on WYGA-LD 16.2); WWCG-LP in Columbus, Georgia; KFLA-LD Los Angeles; KDEO-LD Denver; KHPK-LP Denton, Texas; and KITL-LP Boise.

You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again

It told the stories of prostitute Michelle (who appears on the cover), prostitute Lisa, graphic artist Sophie, Jessia Sobel (b. Los Angeles, California 8 February 1968), the former stepdaughter of ex-British MP Martin Bell, OBE, the dancer Tatiana Thumbtzen (b. Clearwater, Florida 22 April 1960) and the singer Jennifer Young (b. Los Angeles, California 21 April 1964), the daughter of actor Gig Young and realtor Elaine Young.