An intersection in Silver Lake recently designated as historic for its connection with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s classic 1932 film, The Music Box, will soon get its own sign. The City Council on ...

Laurel & Hardy were one of the few great silent movie acts to have even greater success in sound. This set contradicts itself by proving what any Laurel & Hardy fan knows: Their strong suit was ...

The music that we call jazz has always been welcoming to artists with senses of humor to match their senses of rhythm; small wonder that Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller were among the music’s first ...

John Field buys and sells old movies and film memorabilia, but a half-dozen nights each year, the 58-year-old Encinitas resident pops on his fez and becomes the Grand Sheik of the Saps at Sea. The ...

“Stan & Ollie,” a generous, warmhearted film about the legendary comic duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, begins on a graceful, amusingly self-referential note. The film opens in 1937, in a dressing ...