Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney's waterfront house in a gated Westlake Village community has sold for $1.05 million. Built in 1976, the Traditional-style two-story includes a private boat dock. There are four bedrooms, three bathrooms and 2,413 square feet of living space. Grandest pool around? Malibu has it Rooney, 92, got his start as a child actor in silent films. His credits include “Babes in Arms” (1939), “National Velvet” (1944), “The Black Stallion” (1979) and “Night at the Museum” (2006)

Mickey Rooney's waterfront house in a gated Westlake Village community has sold for $1.05 million. Built in 1976, the Traditional-style two-story includes a private boat dock. There are four bedrooms, three bathrooms and 2,413 square feet of living space. Grandest pool around? Malibu has it Rooney, 92, got his start as a child actor in silent films. His credits include “Babes in Arms” (1939), “National Velvet” (1944), “The Black Stallion” (1979) and “Night at the Museum” (2006)

Still going at age 80, film and Broadway star Mickey Rooney will headline May 12 at Orange Coast College's Robert B. Moore Theatre. Joining Rooney are his wife, Jan Chamberlin, comedian Pete Barbutti, the classic R&B group the Drifters and the Henry Cuesta Big Band. Tickets are on sale at the campus ticket office in Costa Mesa (adjacent to the library). (714) 432-5880.

Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett's younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" was her most enduring, has died. She was 94. Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney's teenage girlfriend in the Andy Hardy movies, died Monday evening at her home in Beverly Hills, said her close friend and fellow actress Anne Jeffreys. Rutherford had been in declining health with heart problems. As she became one of the last surviving cast members of "Gone With the Wind," Rutherford made a second career out of attending festivals featuring the beloved Civil War epic.

Mickey Rooney is preparing to celebrate his 70th birthday by putting 35 candles on the cake. "On Sept. 23 I'll be 70," the veteran entertainer says, "but I feel like I'm 35. "What's the difference? Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others." There are two words the diminutive Rooney avoids: "age" and "work." Not that he has an aversion to either, far from it. It's just that "experience" and "fun" are more appropriate as far as he is concerned.

A funny thing happened to Mickey Rooney on his way through childhood: He became a star. At the age of 2, he was appearing in his parent's nightclub act. At 5 came his motion picture debut, playing a midget. At 15, he was signed by MGM. At 18, he received a special Academy Award for "Boys Town" and the Hardy Family movie series. That same year, he and Bette Davis were dubbed king and queen of the box office.

Entertainer Mickey Rooney offered Tuesday to pay for the repainting of a black couple's Agoura Hills home that was vandalized last month by intruders who painted red swastikas and racial epithets on the walls. Retired landscape designer Szebelski L. Freeman, 68, declined to accept money to clean up his house, but said he would put it into a reward fund he has established for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandals.

Even after more than six decades in the glare of Hollywood's limelight, the diminutive actor who was the All-American kid Andy Hardy before World War II is still a whirlwind of energy. Mickey Rooney, who wraps up a limited national tour of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" with Donald O'Connor and Lewis J. Stadlen this week, hardly takes time to catch his breath before launching into another major acting project. "After I finish with Donald (in Stamford, Conn.

For starters, there are reasons I should disqualify myself from reviewing "The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney" by Arthur Marx. Good and important reasons like an old acquaintanceship with the star as well as knowing many characters in the supporting cast. Then, too, I helped the author get his first novel published in 1951 and we may even be related, although it's not certain. Probably the most potent reason to back off is that I'm mentioned in the text quite complimentarily.

"I know what you're going to ask me," Mickey Rooney says, plopping his 5-foot-2 frame into an overstuffed armchair in the living room of his suburban Los Angeles home. "You want to know how I like doing something Judy Garland was in." That's been a recurring theme for more than a year, since the 78-year-old actor assumed the title role in the Radio City Entertainment production of "The Wizard of Oz," which opens at the Pantages Theatre on Thursday.

MGM had great success with several movie franchises in the 1930s and '40s, including "The Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy, the Andy Hardy family comedies with Mickey Rooney and the Dr. Kildare medical dramas with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. The studio hit pay dirt again in 1939, when blond, brassy and endearing Ann Sothern was cast as a good-hearted honky tonk singer named Maisie Ravier. The first in the series, "Maisie" found her in the Wild West and falling in love with Robert Young.

What was the name of Mickey Rooney's character in 1963's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"? Ding Bell

Bridesmaids Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98 One of the biggest comedy hits of the summer, "Bridesmaids" stars Kristen Wiig (who also co-wrote the film with Annie Mumolo) as a lifelong loser whose inability to do anything right threatens to ruin her best friend's wedding. Much of the talk surrounding "Bridesmaids" has been about the movie's raunchiness, and how it shows that women comedians can be as crude as their male counterparts. But what really makes the film so enjoyable is Wiig's fearlessly goofy performance, and the way Wiig, Mumolo and director Paul Feig convey the nuances of female friendships rather than reducing the characters to chick-flick stereotypes.

Mickey Rooney's stepson was ordered Thursday to turn over all of the 90-year-old actor's identification cards ? including his passport, state ID card, various insurance cards and his Screen Actor's Guild membership ? and to continue to abide by a temporary restraining order that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued 10 days ago. Rooney has alleged in court papers that his stepson, Christopher Aber, 52, of Westlake Village and Aber's wife, Christina Aber, 42, have been physically and emotionally abusing him for several years by depriving him of food and medications, prohibiting him from leaving his house and taking control over his finances.

Actor Mickey Rooney will recite the Gettysburg Address at the Los Angeles National Cemetery on Thursday in ceremonies commemorating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The noon event at 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd. also will include speeches and musical performances honoring the legacy of the 16th president. Guests will include government students from Lincoln, Hollywood and Birmingham high schools and actress Gigi Perreau as mistress of ceremonies, organizer Duke Russell said.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were a couple of swells -- energetic, even frenetic, they had marvelous comedy timing, and of course danced and sang their hearts out. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the two made a series of "barnyard musicals" produced by Arthur Freed at MGM. This Tuesday, Warner Home Video is releasing four films in the tune-filled "Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland Collection." And what captivated audiences 60 years ago is as fresh and endearing today.

The Feinstein's signs were gone at the Cinegrill on Wednesday -- an immediate indication of the transition that the venerable Hollywood supper club has made from its recent association with singer Michael Feinstein back to its original identity. Appropriately, the featured act for the new (old) Cinegrill was an artist even more venerable than the room itself -- Mickey Rooney, performing through Saturday with his wife, singer Jan Chamberlin Rooney.

When he pops on screen or bounces on stage, and it's hard to imagine him anywhere else, you can almost hear an announcer's voice: "And here he is, the one, the only, MICKEY ROONEY!" He first appeared in vaudeville at age 17 months, and now, in his early 70s, he says, "When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform." The highs of his life are a part of our culture: the Andy Hardy movies, "Boys Town" and the back-yard musicals with Judy Garland.

From the Washington Post: The TV Column in the Feb. 8 Style section incorrectly described one of the Super Bowl commercials that were scrapped. The ad featured the bare bottom of Mickey Rooney, not Andy Rooney.

The Feinstein's signs were gone at the Cinegrill on Wednesday -- an immediate indication of the transition that the venerable Hollywood supper club has made from its recent association with singer Michael Feinstein back to its original identity. Appropriately, the featured act for the new (old) Cinegrill was an artist even more venerable than the room itself -- Mickey Rooney, performing through Saturday with his wife, singer Jan Chamberlin Rooney.