CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 14, 2001 | BOB POOL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The other kids at Vine Street Elementary School's fifth-grade graduation ceremony eagerly scanned the crowd for parents and grandparents. From her spot on the stage, though, 11-year-old Shari nervously searched the school auditorium for Jean Wagner. Shari is a resident of Hollygrove Children's Home in Hollywood, where Wagner is a staff educational liaison. And at Shari's graduation from elementary school six months ago, Wagner was her surrogate parent.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 6, 2002
"An Evening With Golda Meir" features Renee Taylor in the West Coast premiere of her new solo work about Israel's former prime minister. The show, directed by Taylor's actor husband, Joseph Bologna, will benefit Hollygrove Children and Family Services. Friday and Saturday at Lee Strasberg Creative Center in Hollywood.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 20, 2003 | Booth Moore and Gina Piccalo, Times Staff Writers
Gift-GIVING in Hollywood is a year-round competitive sport. So it's no surprise that come holiday season, the rich and well preserved (and those who get stuck shopping for them) are challenged to find that certain something for the person who has, if not everything, more than enough. Necessity, naturally, is irrelevant. Often it's about luxury and the kind of rarefied detachment found only here, where people hand over $75 leather dog booties, $54,900 Von Dutch motorcycles, $28,000 Jacob & Co.