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It’s a Hollywood tradition that a soda fountain is where dreams of movie stardom come true, especially if you’re young and beautiful.

The most repeated story of this type was that of actress Lana Turner who was “discovered” in at a soda fountain after skipping class at Hollywood High.

But it wasn’t the first incident of that sort, at least according to one of those involved. Merna Kennedy years later told of the shock she and another year-old got while sitting at a Los Angeles soda fountain in waiting for a ride home from dance classes.

The red-haired Kennedy, just a few years after attending a San Bernardino elementary school, and her friend were surprised to see silent movie star Charlie Chaplin walk into the place, she told the Los Angeles Evening Express of Nov. 1,

Not surprisingly, Chaplin, notorious for his attention to under-age girls, noticed them, too, and bought them a soft drink, according to Kennedy. Both girls would later play roles

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It was hot and humid inside the car train carrying the body of Robert F. Kennedy from New York City to Washington, D.C.

The air conditioning had failed and the mile journey that should have taken three hours lasted a sweltering five, with the trip slowed by mourners lining the tracks to pay their respects to the presidential candidate assassinated in Los Angeles.

Darwin Horn remembers the trip like it was yesterday.

“There were millions of people alongside,” recalled the Rolling Hills resident, a retired Secret Service agent who supervised protection for Ethel Kennedy and her family after her husband died on June 6, – 40 years ago this week.

“They were throwing flowers and genuflecting.”

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Horn, who watched over presidents and world dignitaries from Presidents Truman to Reagan, traveled with the Kennedy family from Los Angeles to New York and on to the nation’s capital.

He looked after the year-old Kennedy as he lay dying in a hospi

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Chilean director Pablo Larrain has made quite a worldwide reputation for himself with a run of stylistically and narratively unique films — “Tony Manero,” “Post Mortem,” “No,” “The Club” — that often take unexpected looks at his country’s tortured history.

Now the year-old filmmaker is unleashing the one-two punch of “Jackie” (opening Dec. 2) and “Neruda” (Dec. 16), both films about famous political figures at times of crisis in their lives.

His first English-language production, in which Natalie Portman portrays Jacqueline Kennedy at various moments before and after her husband John’s assassination, takes on memory and mythmaking in a compellingly intimate manner. “Neruda” presents a close-up portrait of Chile’s famed Communist poet and his image-building as well, but filtered through a sometimes surreal presentation of psychological speculation, mixed-up movie genre