Spiegel Stuff: Malibu’s Lost Boys; Hollywood’s Children of Yore; How Joan Didion Transformed LA

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Surfing, folk music, and psychedelic stardom—California was the spot for cultural revival in the 1960s and '70s. Revisit tales of Hollywood decadence from the VF Archive.

The Rebel Angels

They came of age—and to music stardom—in the '60s and '70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risk-taker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. A look back at the passions and heartbreak that inspired their greatest hits.

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Malibu's Lost Boys

Surfing was still a strange and exotic art in 1961, when Mike Nader, Duane King, and Larry Shaw escaped their troubled homes for the beach at Malibu. But the culture of big waves and wild times ended in a blaze of Hollywood decadence, drugs, and death.

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Our Lady of LA

Joan Didion arrived in Hollywood in 1964 a promising young writer. By the early '70s, though, with the publication of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It as It Lays, she was a star: among the most important writers of her generation, a cultural icon who changed LA's perception of itself.

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Children of Paradise

Between World War II and the '60s, before bodyguards and gossip sites, Hollywood kids could grow up in a golden normalcy, combining the perks of movie royalty with small-town protections. Sure, Daddy's Oscar mattered, but not as much as being cool in school.

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California Dreamgirl

When Denny Doherty died, Michelle Phillips became the last of the Mamas and the Papas, the '60s foursome that made hippie sexy and topped the charts for almost two psychedelic years before breaking up. She gives the real story of the tangled emotions that bound four musicians for life.

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Once Upon a Time in LA

When Dennis Hopper started taking pictures, he was living happily with his new family in the hills above the Sunset Strip. Four decades on, Brooke Hayward recalls her seven-year marriage to Hopper, during which Pop artists and Old Guard Hollywood came together in a more innocent LA.

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Saturday, May 13, 2023

Malibu’s Lost Boys; Hollywood’s Children of Yore; How Joan Didion Transformed LA

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