In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised, " Mr. Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook ".

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

In 2005, author Anne Rice became involved in a flamewar of sorts on the review boards of online retailer Amazon. com after several reviewers posted scathing comments about her latest novel.

Does not bear inspection .” As this review states, the virginal maiden character is above inspection because her personality is flawless.

The roots of her realist philosophy can be found in her review of John Ruskin's Modern Painters in Westminster Review in 1856.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

" In the Esquire review, Tom Carson called her performance " terrific.

In May 1625 she was in good spirits and insisted on accompanying her husband on the royal yacht to review the fleet.

Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.

Kevin Lally of the Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that " in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha in her previous roles.

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon. com noted in her review for the film that Cruz " doesn't coast on her beauty in Broken Embraces, and she has the kind of role that can be difficult to flesh out.

Although Gauss thought well of Germain, his replies to her letters were often delayed, and he generally did not review her work.

" This put the Academy in an awkward position, as they felt the paper to be “ inadequate and trivial ,” but they did not want to “ treat her as a professional colleague, as they would any man, by simply rejecting the work .” So Augustin-Louis Cauchy, who had been appointed to review her work, recommended she publish it, and she followed his advice.

Janet Maslin praised Bridges ' performance in her review for The New York Times: " Mr. Bridges finds a role so right for him that he seems never to have been anywhere else.

Under Mary, he had been spared, and often visited Elizabeth, ostensibly to review her accounts and expenditure.

Rita Kempley's review in The Washington Post praised Meg Ryan as the " summer's Melanie Griffith – a honey-haired blonde who finally finds a showcase for her sheer exuberance.

In her New York Times review Janet Maslin wrote, Natalie Portman got film's " archest dialogue ", and called her " a budding knockout, and scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role.

In her review she said, " Its whimsical, free-ranging nature is often enchanting ; the first hour, in particular, is brimming with amiable, sardonic laughs.

" In her review for The New York Times, Caryn James claimed that the film had " at least four endings ," and " by the time the last ending of this two-and-a-quarter-hour film comes along, the effect is like getting off a demon roller coaster that has kept racing several laps after you were ready to get off.

" In her review for The Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote that the film " asks us to believe that the drowned return to life, that the comatose come to the rescue, that driven women become doting wives, that Neptune cares about landlubbers.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.

`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.

He released her reluctantly for her enthusiastic reunion with Old Hap.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Now the Czarship had not affected my own sense of social values, but Mother had attained a reflected glory through it, which had opened the doors of Los Angeles-Pasadena Society to her.

Now her modern tapestries have been exhibited on two continents and, at 26, she feels she is on the threshold of a whole new life in Los Angeles.

Olson was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 on her way to a taping of Politically Incorrect in Los Angeles, when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

She was born in Fresno on July 17, 1916, and later moved with her divorced mother and her brother and sister to Los Angeles.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

After her separation from her second husband, George Weidler, in 1948, Day reportedly intended to leave Los Angeles and return to her mother's home in Cincinnati.

In 1976, she signed with the Los Angeles public-relations firm Katz-Gallin-Morey, working closely with Sandy Gallin, who served as her personal manager for the next twenty-five years.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

Eve Arden died from colorectal cancer and heart disease at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82 and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

They became friends and, within a year, he asked her to join him in Los Angeles for another attempt to record his first solo album.

A meeting was arranged and the two instantly rekindled their relationship, with Fisher dividing her weeks between Los Angeles and San Francisco at Parsons ' expense.

Following his father's death, Tracy lived with a nearby aunt briefly, and was sent to live with his other aunt and her husband in View Park-Windsor Hills, a middle-class black neighborhood by South Los Angeles.

* 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.

Yukiko Matsuyama leads her KotoYuki band in Los Angeles.

Jamison began her study of clinical psychology at University of California, Los Angeles in the late 1960s, receiving both B. A.

Olson was released from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on parole March 17, 2008, and was blocked from boarding her flight to Minnesota at Los Angeles International Airport on March 21.

In 1991, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Los Angeles, California, where she attended Laurel Hall Day School.

In 1967, Nancy Reagan was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year ; in its profile, the Times labeled her " A Model First Lady ".

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.