Topic: Los Angeles

Author's "Gray Zone" sheds light on dark subject

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it -- novel, being the key word.Ziman, a Los Angeles-based philanthropist and activist for kids placed in foster care, has ...

Marilyn Monroe Lives On

Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was bornNorma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital.Prior to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headednorth to San Francisco, abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Afterward, ...