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Charlie Chaplin is a central player in this big, engaging novel, which takes on early Hollywood and Los Angeles, movie storytelling and the arrival of modernity.

Actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, whose big screen classics included “The Cannonball Run,” “Spaceballs” and “History of the World Part I,” died on Monday night at a Los Angeles hospital, Access Hollywood has confirmed. He was 75.

TV talk show host Jay Leno fell ill and checked himself into a Los Angeles, California, hospital Thursday, his representative said.

Long Beach, UCLA and LAX records are also broken by unseasonably warm weather that meteorologists attribute to Santa Ana winds blowing in from the desert. Monday may be even hotter.

Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich are headed for a May 19 runoff for city attorney. Wendy Greuel appears to have won her bid for controller. Measure B, the solar energy proposal, is defeated.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa secured a second four-year term in Tuesday's election.

Before the unspeakable horror that struck the tan stucco house on McFarland Avenue, the blue-collar folks who labor and live in the community called Wilmington had suffered their fair share — not unlike other Americans.