Posts by Suzanne Bohan
Oscar winners may gain years in life, along with prized gold statuette
Academy Award winners this Sunday may not realize it, but they have another reason to clutch their newly-won Oscars so tightly: That 13-inch gold statuette can actually add years to their lives. Movie stars who have won an Oscar live on average four years longer than stars nominated but not selected. Katharine Hepburn won a…
Read MoreStreet vendors furtively do business in Los Angeles
We first saw this street vendor standing next to his cart in South Los Angeles one hot afternoon last summer. Someone was purchasing one of the frozen desserts he sold from his bike/street cart, keeping it cold with dry ice. He was leery, though, when Rudy Espinoza and I approached him, but still lifted a…
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