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CONTENTS Welcome to SoCal Magazine!

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PROVIDENCE The number one restaurant in Los Angeles

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hy Providence? Providence is down with pop-ups, and with food trucks and with chefs who shock the world with their inside-out hard-boiled eggs. They like great bar snacks. They realize the difficulties inherent in operating a Los Angeles restaurant as if it were in Seoul or Wuxi, and they marvel at how persuasive the results can sometimes be. But there is also something to be said for the old-fashioned model, the great regimented kitchens that function as a single, marvelous machine; a symphony orchestra as opposed to a recital for trumpet, horn and bassoon.

And while Michael Cimarusti is a supremely creative chef, his restaurant has many of the classic virtues: crisp, white tablecloths; a lovely but understated dining room; and a staff intimately acquainted with his cuisine. Cimarusti operates within the context of modernist seafood, which means his raw materials come from all over the world, but his sense of seasonality, his easy multicultural flavor palette and his unfussy use of California produce plants his cooking solidly in L.A. He doesn’t make a big deal out of it, but he serves only sustainable seafood. And his cooking is frankly delicious, especially as expressed in the relaxed arcform of a tasting menu.

Whatever the night, the mood is festive at Providence: a family birthday here, a couple on a date there, tourists treating themselves to a good dinner, friends splurging.

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POMEGRANATE JUICE The hottest fad in the world of prostate cancer prevention and treatment

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ne of the “hottest” fads in the world of prostate cancer prevention and treatment is the potential of extract of pomegranate and pomegranate juice to affect risk for prostate cancer and maybe even treat early stage disease.

Fads like this are not new. We have seen the coming and going (more than once) of tomatoes and lycopene. We have seen the selenium craze rise (in the 1990s) and crash to the ground in 2008. We have seen the vitamin E hypothesis rise and fall as well … along with hypotheses about vitamin C and vitamin D. Tofu is still a food of choice for some — based on its supposed cancer preventive properties.

And having made all the usual cynical noises, we feel compelled to state that the potential of pomegranate extract is stronger than that of many other “natural” or “dietary” regimens that we have ever seen hyped in prostate cancer.

Pomegranate juice can have a great impact on health, particularly on the health of the heart, by keeping the arteries flexible and decreasing the inflammation in the lining of the blood vessels.

It is known to reduce atherosclerosis, which is one of the leading causes of heart disease. It lowers the risk of blockage in the arteries which can cause a restriction in the flow of blood to the heart and brain. In other words it has an antiatherogenic effect on the heart. It lowers the amount of LDL or bad cholesterol that is retained in the body and increases the amount of good cholesterol or HDL. Pomegranates are also known to reduce high blood pressure. The juice of this fruit reduces lesions and the inflammation of blood vessels in heart patients. It is a natural aspirin, which keeps the blood from coagulating and forming blood clots. It even acts as a blood thinner allowing for an unrestricted flow of blood through the body.

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“The Antioxidant Superpower.”

Pomegranate juice eliminates free radicals from the body and inhibits the growth and development of cancer and other diseases.

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WINDOWS INTO THE SURREAL FIDMS 5th Floor Windows Celebrate the Surreal Work of Elsa Schiaparelli

By Hamish Bowles

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adder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934. Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” ( To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”)

Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends— stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the fingers of chameleongreen suede gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets.

Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere.

Love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses.

“Dare to be different,” is the advice she offered to women.

Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond.

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Wild and Wonderful

By Peter Lindbergh

vilness aside, the witchy voluptuousness of some of Bonham Carter’s on-screen characters is not dissimilar from her infamously whimsical off-screen style. Her fondness for dressing in eccentric, multilayered ensembles has for years landed her on both best- and worst-dressed lists. As a nominee for best actress at the 2011 Golden Globes for her work in The King’s Speech, Bonham Carter walked the red carpet wearing a lowcut Vivienne Westwood number in tulle-covered floral accessorized with different shoes: one red and the other green. Predictably, this kind of irreverent move had its share of detractors, but it was precisely its devil-may-care zaniness that inspired Marc Jacobs to ask her to be the face of his Fall 2011 ad campaign.

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Wild and Wonderful, Helena Bonham Car ter In A Room with a View (1985), 19-year-old Helena Bonham Carter gave an indelible performance as Lucy Honeychurch, E.M. Forster’s pensive heroine who chooses between love and propriety in Edwardian England. So perfectly did the striking young actress-with her wide eyes, dark tresses, and milky skinbring to life such literary characters as Lucy (not to mention tragic teenagers Lady Jane Grey and Ophelia) that she quickly became the archetypal period-drama protagonist. But by the late ‘90s, Bonham Carter began to play against type, taking on roles considerably quirkier and edgier than the rose-lipped maidens of her more conventionally corseted phase. The more damaged the character, the more challenging the conditions, the better-at least that’s what Bonham Carter seemed to have been saying by going on to take on the role of a paraplegic in 1998’s The Theory of Flight, opposite then-boyfriend Kenneth Branagh.

The following year, she played the spiky-haired, chainsmoking love interest to Brad Pitt/Edward Norton’s Tyler Durden in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999). For that role, the London-born actress demonstrated her willingness to get dark and a little maniacal. That she is also not afraid to make herself look grotesque or even ridiculous is part of her charm. Think of the set of gnarly false teeth she sported as the evil Bellatrix Lestrange in three Harry Potter movies.

Or her willingness to transform herself into a primate, as she did for Planet of the Apes (2001), a film which, though perhaps not itself a critical high-water mark in her career, signaled the beginning of her ongoing personal and professional relationship with its director, Tim Burton. In Bonham Carter, Burton found the perfect muse for slyly macabre fantasy fiction.

Over the past decade they have made seven films togetherand more than a few of the Bonham Carter’s characters in those movies have been touched by madness. In fact, some of them have been downright scary, such as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’s meat pie-baking accomplice Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (2007), and the tyrannical Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Miss Havisham – hiding away in the dark, plotting revenge on men from the cobwebby shadows of her stately pile – is the kind of role she was born to play. Did she bring her own ideas about the costume? Naturally. ‘I went overboard! I had this idea that her veil would grow over the years, like her grief. It’s a bit pathological. Everything’s a bit overgrown.’

After leaving here, Bonham Carter is off to pick her daughter up from school. She met her partner Tim Burton on the set of ‘Planet of the Apes’ in 2001. In their first conversation ever (‘small talk, which he frankly isn’t very good at’), he told her that Hampstead was the only place he’d ever felt he belonged.

Eighteen months later, when they got together he bought the house next door – ‘He wouldn’t have fitted into mine.’ Ever since the pair have famously lived side by side, each in their own house (sounds perfect). But at the moment they’ve got the builders in and are all under one roof. How’s it going?

‘Surprisingly okay.’

Like a holiday? ‘Yes! There’s a lot to be said for being in shouting distance.

And it’s cosy. The kids love it.’

Burton is boss on set. At home it’s vice-versa. ‘I’ve always done the cooking, which I love,’ she says. ‘He can warm up. He does his two-minute rice. And gets the drinks ready. He makes smoothies on a weekend. Our daughter once said to him: ‘Dadda, why don’t you make smoothies instead of movies?’

And with that she collapses into her biggest fit of giggles yet.

‘Great Expectations’ closes the London Film Festival on Oct 21 and is out in cinemas on Nov 30.

Her childhood looks privileged from a distance, but the reality was somewhat different. Her mother had a breakdown when Helena was five and didn’t recover for three years (she went on to work as a psychotherapist). Then, when she was 13, her father, a s­ uccessful banker, suffered a stroke that left him severely disabled. As a little girl, Bonham Carter was old beyond her years. Just after her father’s stroke, she found herself an agent. “I just went and got an agent b ­ ecause I thought I can create my own world – you can’t right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.” It’s strange she chose acting, she says, “because I was intensely shy”.

She must have been confident in some way to phone an agent? “I had a determination to make things right. I was quite stubborn, and I believed that I had to become self-sufficient, to look after myself now.” Was there enough money? “Well, there was, but only just. I was a mixture of b ­ eing incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. Looking back, I’d been staying ­b ecause of my dad – to try to make it better in some way. I thought, crazily, somehow, if I remain a child, I will make up for what happened to Dad.”

“I was weird right from the start.

It’s just that you cant ever expect people to get you”

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Wild and Wonderful, Helena Bonham Car ter Helena Bonham Carter is funny and open to a fault.

‘I’ve got Tourette’s, practically,’ she says. I’ll tell anyone anything.’ Here she is, talking about her saucy turn as the Queen Mum in ‘The King’s Speech’. Did she deliberately make HRH a total fox? ‘Oh yes, my Queen Mum was sexy.’

She eyes the tape recorder. ‘I don’t want to upset the royal family again.’ She carries on regardless. ‘To this day the Queen says she never watched the film. She’s not allowed to, apparently. But she has and did enjoy it. I think she was moved.’

Bonham Carter can’t have offended too many grandees – she was awarded a CBE earlier this year. The actress is most definitely having her moment. She was Oscar-nominated for ‘The King’s Speech’. And of course, there’s Harry Potter.

Did she notice a Bellatrix effect? Kids avoiding her children’s birthday parties? She grins. One day a woman in Hampstead ‘literally screamed’ when she clapped eyes on her. Bonham Carter recreates the scene with her best horror-damsel shriek…

On the set of Harry Potter she shared Daniel Radcliffe’s make-up team (keeping watch while he smoked cheeky fags out of the window). Radcliffe interviewed her recently for an American magazine –

although it ended with up with Bonham Carter giving him a gentle talking-to about his typecast fears.

‘I’ve had lots of conversations with Emma Watson, too,’ she says. ‘She is very very bright.’ It’s starting to sound as if she had a queue of Harry Potter kids lining up outside her trailer for career advice. ‘A bit.’ Her top tip? ‘Don’t read the bloody papers.’

Acting young is something she can relate to.

Barely out of her teens when she starred in ‘A Room with a View’ in the mid-’80s, she was pigeonholed as an English rose. In her twenties she found fame ‘overwhelming’. ‘I’m a late developer,’ she says. ‘I only moved out of home when I was 30.’ What took her so long? ‘I think it was Dad’s illness.’

“We didn’t want to copy Taylor’s look at 50 - which is how old she was when she did Private Lives,” she said. “Helena was never going to look exactly like her, but that wasn’t the point - we wanted to convey her star quality. She had such a presence; apparently you always knew she was in the room.”

During the first fitting with Bonham Carter, Buxton identified the key silhouettes and colours that would create a convincing Taylor - drawing on the actress’ style signatures, including the colour purple and her love of kaftans.

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Wild and Wonderful, Helena Bonham Car ter Helena Bonham Carter has made a habit out of playing fantastical, eccentric characters. The British actress has cut off heads as the zany Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland,” cursed helpless muggles as Bellatrix Lestrange in “Harry Potter,” and even served up fresh, hot meat (not the good kind) pies as Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd.” In “The Lone Ranger,” which opens this week, she plays a woman who runs a brothel house.

But what about the woman behind these uniquely outrageous characters? Below, we run down 13 little-known facts about Bonham-Carter, including the roles she almost played and her side business that helps jazz up your jeans. ​1. She is the first cousin of Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter. She is also the great-granddaughter of H.H. Asquith who was British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.

2. She was denied admission to King’s College, Cambridge University, but not because she was a bad student; the school didn’t accept her because they were worried she’d drop out to pursue acting. You can thank the university for all the Carter roles you love, since the rejection led her to fully commit to her craft. (Can you really imagine her in a classroom anyway?)

3. She tried out for the role of Nancy Spungen in 1986’s “Sid and Nancy,” but the role ended up going to Chloe Webb.

4. She based her performance of Marla Singer in “Fight Club” (1999) on Judy Garland in the later stages of her life. To help her get into the mindset, director David Fincher would often call her Judy on set.

5. She was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.

6. She turned down the role of Bess in Lars von Trier’s drama “Breaking the Waves” (1996) due to the sexual content. The role went to Emily Watson who got nominated for an Oscar for her performance.

7. She launched her own fashion line “The Pantaloonies” in 2006 with friend and swimwear designer Samantha Sage. In order to buy the clothing, customers have to return a questionnaire which asks about their favorite films along with a pair of jeans they wish to be customized. Eventually, they receive a unique customization of their jeans based on their answers.

8. She trained three weeks for a fight scene with co-star Gary Oldman in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” but the scene ended up being cut from the film.

9. Bonham-Carter speaks fluent French.

10. Her mother is a psychotherapist and Helena pays her to

read her scripts and give opinions on her characters’ psychological motivations.

11. Bonham-Carter’s father became half-paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after his surgery to remove a tumor went wrong.

Before his passing in 2004, the actress would study his mannerisms and movements for a role as a woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease in the 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.”

12. She lived at home with her parents until her early 30s to help her mother once her father became disabled.

13. Bonham-Carter met director Tim Burton while filming “Planet of the Apes” (2001), and the two became romantically involved after the movie wrapped. However, instead of moving in with her in her Hampstead home in London, Burton bought two houses next-door to each other for them to live in. They now have two children, son Billy Ray and daughter Nell, and have made seven films together.

While they’ve been together for 12 years, they are not married.

14. Johnny Depp is the godfather of her child, Billy Ray. 15. She is a distant cousin of Kate Middleton.

16. Helena McCrory, who played Narcissa Malfoy in “Harry Potter,” was originally cast as Bellatrix Lestrange. However, after McCrory became pregnant, she was unable to shoot all of Lestrange’s scenes, so Bonham-Carter got the part.

We are in the cafe just down the road from her north London home.

She says she’s got something to show me, and produces a freaky cardboard ­cutout of a little woman with a huge, hydro­ encephalised head.

“I’ve brought myself.

It’s me… in Alice.”

Alice In Wonderland is the l­atest movie she has made with her partner, ­director Tim ­Burton. This is their sixth ­collaboration, and ­possibly the grandest ­(it’s certainly the most ­expensive, at an estimated $250m). It’s classic Burton territory – a fairytale world where adulthood is never quite attained, and innocence trails a ghoulish stench. Bonham Carter is playing nasty – a cross between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. She holds up her cardboard self and ­addresses it. “She’s got Tourette’s. She just says, ‘Off with their heads!’ all the time.”

Bonham Carter has not yet seen the film. N ­ o one has. It’s a closely guarded secret. But then, you won’t get far asking her about any film she’s been in. In recent years, she has boycotted them. She can’t stand watching herself. Nor can Johnny Depp, Burton’s prettier alter ego, who plays the Mad Hatter in Alice. “Johnny doesn’t watch ­anything he’s in. That’s slightly comforting. You think if Johnny Depp can’t watch himself…”

“Im drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock”

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RICHARD

AVEDON

A Portrait of an Artist.

Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work.

By Kely Smith

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hat do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau,

Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common?

They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers.

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Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store.

Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of other magazines.

During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.

As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability 24 SOCALMAG.COM DECEMBER2013

to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true,

environment of the studio with that of the hospital he

intimate, and lasting photographs.

was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits

Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a

with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the

unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism,

insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later

Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white

he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a

backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain

series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and

the dark outline of the film in which the image was

working class Americans.

framed. Within the minimalism of his empty studio,

Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work

Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement

for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with

which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images.

James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having

Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images

“All photographs are accurate.

None of them is the truth.”

met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for

seem intimate in their imperfection. While many

more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s

photographers are interested in either catching a

Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where

moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon

he would take some of the most famous portraits of the

has found a way to do both.

decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer

Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon

for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney

has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In

Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the

1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that

retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted

documented some of the most famous and important

one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by

people of the century. Observations included images

Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received

of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J.

an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in

Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West.

London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer,

Around this same time he began a series of images of

more intimate view of the great and the famous. Avedon

patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled

died on October 1st, 2004.

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THIS MONTH'S NUMBER ONE VOTED HOTSPOT ...

DISNEYLAND! Delightful Holiday Decorations and Yuletide Treasures Gorgeous sights, sensational sounds and seasonal experiences abound throughout both Disneyland Resort theme parks.

Cruise over to Cars Land, where the residents of Radiator Springs display their homespun holiday décor—including a “snowcar” that’s guaranteed to bring a smile to your “grill.”

While you’re in Disney California Adventure Park, join the little critters in “a bug’s land” to see how they celebrate the season and then explore Buena Vista Street.

The bustling boulevard of Buena Vista Street—named for the real-life Burbank thoroughfare where the Walt Disney Studios reside—has been transformed for the holidays. Stroll the street and be a part of the pageantry of a past era and rejoice in the timelessness of family togetherness.

Every yuletide holiday, Main Street, U.S.A.—Walt’s idyllic

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vision of the main thoroughfare of his childhood hometown—is transformed into an avenue aglow with seasonal splendor, and this year is no exception.

Festive garlands, cheerful wreaths and thousands of white and colored lights illuminate the night sky. A towering 60-foot Christmas tree, festooned with more than 70,000 lights and 2,000 custom-made ornaments, reaches for the sky while the smells of freshly made peanut brittle and fudge fill the air.

And what would the holidays at Disneyland Park be without music? Don’t miss the Main Street Carolers as they delight Guests with their tuneful renditions of classic Christmas carols accompanied by pealing handbells.

Then turn your attention toward Sleeping Beauty’s Winter Castle for the spellbinding Believe... In Holiday Magic fireworks spectacular, a fitting conclusion to a most magical evening.

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