The Beverly Hills Hotel is iconic to La-La Land lore ... Katharine Hepburn is said to have jumped into the pool fully clothed after a tennis game, and Elizabeth Taylor enjoyed six honeymoons ...

As awards season approaches, one can hardly imagine that it will provide an image as iconic as one morning-after shot taken by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1977. A woman in a gold ...

For visitors, even those from Northern California like me, L.A. exists in the imagination, as a flickering vision projected in the mind’s eye of David Hockney pools, beautiful movie stars ...