Going Live with The Fabulous
Featuring Tops Salon Creative Director Doug Yeagley and TV News Anchor Carol LeBeau
Health Beauty Life magazine had the pleasure of spending the day at Tops Salon in Mission Hills, California with the lovely Carol LeBeau, a number one TV news anchor in Southern California for nearly 30 years. In her esteemed career, she has accumulated an impressive collection of awards, including a Golden Mic, San Diego Press Club awards and the C. Everett Koop award for health reporting. From reporting breaking news to her experience as a competitive swimmer, it is clear that Carol is never lacking for interesting conversation topics. Let's listen in as salon owner, Doug Yeagley, works on her hair.
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Rants and Raves: Cinema Under the Stars
Outdoor Venue Opens New Season
BY BETH ACCOMANDO
June 16, 2011
Nestled in Mission Hills, Cinema Under the Stars affords film lovers the chance to enjoy classic movies in a cozy outdoor venue. I spoke with film programmer Ralph DeLauro about this alternate film venue.
As you enter the garden-like theater space of Cinema Under the Stars, gracefully curving twinkle lights catch your eye, and you're greeted by life-size cutouts of Alfred Hitchcock and Audrey Hepburn.
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Things to do: weekend edition
BY NINA GARIN
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011 AT NOON
Your weekend plans may be found below:
It isn't summer until Channel 933 says it's summer. But have you seen the lineup for UCSD's Sun God Festival?? Local music lovers will be at the Belly Up where Pinback performs with a full band. Who said the East County doesn't have any culture? The Dance Conservatory stages "Mardi Gras Princess A Cinderella Story" Friday and Saturday in El Cajon. In the mood for some super soft tunes? Look no further than Humphrey's where Yanni performs his New Age masterpieces. Look at that, Alien Ant Farm's still around. Ferrell versus Wiig.
Or see "The African Queen" at Cinema Under the Stars Friday and Saturday. Read
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A date a day in San Diego: May 7 – May 13
By Loxie Gant, SDNN
Thursday, May 6, 2010
For this week’s Date A Day, my selections are specifically focused
on romance on a budget. It is easy to find date ideas that won’t kill
your wallet – you just have to look a little harder and add a little
creativity. Happy dating!
Friday, May 7 — Casablanca at Cinema Under The Stars
Drive-in movies
used to be all the rage. While they may have lost their novelty, San
Diego has a very unique option: Cinema Under The Stars is an outdoor
movie theater, with all the refreshments and comfortable seating of
an AMC, but shows classic movies outdoors. This weekend they are showing
Casablanca- a romantic tale of love and war. Read
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FILM
REEL
Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tovin Lapan
4040 Goldfinch St., Mission Hills; (619) 295-4221. Films are screened
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays, through November. Doors open
at 6 p.m., movie starts at 8:30 p.m. $13.50; $12.50 with the purchase
of a $75 annual membership; topspresents.com
It’s back: Along with the warm weather and sunny skies that sneaked
back into San Diego the last week of March came the new season for
Cinema Under the Stars, the open air movie theater in the back of Doug
Yeagley’s Tops hair salon in Mission Hills.
First, the hits; then, the classics: New for this year is an early
spring session featuring recent hits, something Yeagley has never offered
before. Screening this Friday and Saturday is “An Education,” the 2009
critically acclaimed film written by Nick Hornby (“High Fidelity”)
about a young girl whose plans of studying at Oxford are derailed when
she meets a charming, older man. The selections stay current through
April, with “(500) Days of Summer” and “Avatar” next on the docket,
before turning to some of Yeagley’s classic favorites such as “Casablanca,”
“To Catch a Thief” and “Rear Window.”
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San Diego Movies
Outdoor Movies: Now Showing
Mission Hills' Cinema Under The Stars opens early this year
By Ron Donoho
Mon, Mar 29th, 2010
Each year brings a new crop of audience members who “discover” Cinema
Under The Stars. This off-the-beaten-path, outdoor Mission Hills movie
theater has existed since 1991— in a larger incarnation at times, and
sometimes in dispute with neighbors and zoning laws. But always with
an entrepreneurial joie de vivre.
“Sure we have a group of regulars,” says convivial owner Doug Yeagley,
who lives about 50 feet away from the theater and his adjacent Tops
Hair Salon. “But we see new faces every year.”
Traditionally, Cinema Under The Stars (CUTS) opens its season in May,
and shows an assemblage of the classics: Rear Window, Rebel Without
A Cause, Some Like It Hot. This year, the showings are already underway,
and the marquee holds the names of new movies like The Blind Side and
Sherlock Holmes (the remake with Robert Downey Jr.).
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San
Diego Untion Tribune - May 1,
2008
AT THE MOVIES - VIVA, VIVA CINEMA UNDER THE STARS
Outdoor theater's annual film program
adds a
king to the mix— Elvis
By Nina Garin, Staff Writer
Outdoor theater's annual film
program adds a king to the mix – Elvis
There's lots of ways to watch “Casablanca” – as a
midnight rerun on TV or as a Netflix rental.
But one of the better ways
to catch the classic is at Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars, an intimate
outdoor theater in Mission Hills. The movie patio, located in the back
of Doug Yeagley's hair salon, opens its 2008 season tonight and once
again features a trademark lineup of classic and art-house films.
Audience favorites “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” “Casablanca” and “The
Princess Bride” are standard fare. This year, however, Yeagley's
introducing a new silver screen star to the mix: Elvis.
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www.signonsandiego.com
San
Diego Untion Tribune - July
1, 2007
INTO VIEW
In His Theater, Expect A 'Total Experience'
When Douglas Yeagley bangs the gong, it's just the beginning
of a 'unique time'
By
David Elliott, Movie Critic
He prefers Doug to Douglas, digs movies and really
digs hitting the big Asian gong at his movie shows, as twinkle lights
welcome night: “When
I hit the gong, the vibe goes through people and they become an audience.”
Doug Yeagley, 52, is a hairstylist by day and cinemaholic by night. He
speaks in sardonic tones that mildly echo Jack Nicholson, and loves mostly
old films (plus some moderns he won't show patrons, like the violent “Kill Bill” duo).
Classics look newborn at his Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars, projected
digitally onto a canopied, 20-foot screen in the lushly intimate patio theater
that back-ends his Tops hair salon, 4040 Goldfinch in Mission Hills.
Yeagley
arrived in San Diego in 1983, divorced, raised a son (Spencer, who just
finished his third tour of army duty in Iraq). His other kids are the
salon, where 15 booths are leased to stylists, and the movie venue that
began with a spit curl of dream in 1991, showing 16mm. prints “we'd
work on for hours to get into shape, they'd been so cannibalized. It
was like, hey, you'll love the first and third reels of 'Breakfast at
Tiffany's' but forget the second.”
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www.signonsandiego.com
San Diego Magazine
Calendar- July
2007
By Julia Beeson
Movies by Moonlight
Don’t care to deal with summer crowds at the local movie megaplex? We
don’t blame you. Ditch the corporate-chain theater for a night out at
Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills. It’s just what
the name implies: Classics and newer releases are screened alfresco every Thur.-Sun.,
through July 29.
Admission is $12.50, or you can buy an annual pass for $70.
Perks you won’t find at the metroplex: a film introduction and discussion,
a variety of seating options——choose between an ergonomic lounge
chair, café table seating, balcony barstool or chair and ottoman——a
light show, special effects and a trivia contest.
The lineup: The Third Man
(June 28 & 29), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (June 30 & July
1), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (July 5-8), Double Indemnity (July 12 & 13),
Hitch (July 14 & 15), Entrapment (July 19 & 20), Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(July 21 & 22), The Lady Vanishes (July 26 & 27) and Romancing the
Stone (July 28 & 29).
Doors open at 6:30; shows start at 8. 4040 Goldfinch
Street, 619-295-4221; topspresents.com.
www.sandiegomagazine.com
La
Jolla Village News - June 21, 2007
Summer Movies Under The Stars
by James Colt Harrison
Cinema Under the Stars has begun its new 2007 summer season with unique screenings
under the open skies. Don’t worry about the weather — shows are
experienced on a radiant-heated patio in reclining seats. Screenings run every
Thursday through Sunday, with a different classic each week. Showtime is 8:30
pm.
Keanu Reeves, allegedly a graduate of the Cigar Store
Wooden Indian School of Acting, plays romantic in Alfonso Arau’s “A
Walk In the Clouds.” As
a traveling salesman, he befriends a pregnant girl and pretends to be her husband
to save her humiliation. Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22. click
here to read the complete article.
www.lajollavillagenews.com
KUSI San Diego Local News
Good Morning San Diego with Renee Kohn
May 25, 2007
Movies Under The Stars: Watch
movies unlike anywhere else in San Diego. Renee is
in Mission Hills at Cinema Under The Stars. This weekend's
movie is "There's Something About Mary."
www.kusi.com
San
Diego Union Tribune
NIGHT & DAY - May 31, 2007
SEE THIS - Grade "A"
"Casablanca"
Ok, so maybe the first time a person
sees "Casablanca", they're left to wonder what all the fuss
is about because everyone says this as one of the best romance movies
of all time. But no one really mentions how it's actually a war movie
filled with espionage and betrayal and Nazis. So unless a person gets
all the World War II references, the movie doesn't make any sense.
After a few years of maturity and some time with a history book, however,
this movie goes from blah to awesome. The
dialogue is wtty, the characters are salty, and yes, it's actually
pretty damn romantic.
San
Diego Union Tribune
NIGHT & DAY -
May 10, 2007
Tops' New Season Has A Good Vibe Going
By David Elliott, Movie Critic
Spangled with 36 movies, tonight through October, Tops Presents Cinema
Under the Stars will screen over a dozen films that the weekend, outdoor
venue in Mission Hills has not shown before.
Doug Yeagley, founding honcho
of the nested, 60-seat operation at 4040 Goldfinch, says the main improvement
is “our new HD player, so
we had to come up with some new, high-definition films.” Along
with the large screen, twinkle lights, bubbles, heaters, vending bar
and reworked seating, the showman is proud of “our new 40-inch
Chinese gong to open shows. Everybody gets a little vibration going.”|
Yeagley's vibe is old movies, aided by programmer Ralph DeLauro and presiding
muses Alfred Hitchcock and Audrey Hepburn. But 21st-century films include
tonight's “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” (through
Saturday). Tickets are now $12.50, the door opens an hour before 8:30
p.m. shows preceded by music and extras. Some “zero gravity” lounge
seats can be reserved, (619) 295-4221, and the info Web site is topspresents.com.
With a pungently neighboring barbecue
outfit having moved elsewhere, cinema continues fresh as May with the
modern musical whopper “Chicago” (May
17-19) and Cameron Diaz being cutely raffish in “There's Something
About Mary” (May 24-26).
Next month has foolproof “Casablanca” (May 31-June 2), then
the 1989 “Batman” smash (June 7-8), Hitchcock's voyeur gem “Rear
Window” (June 9-10), Hepburn sparkling with Cary Grant in “Charade” (June
14-15), Sean Connery's Bond in “Goldfinger” (June 15-17),
Tony Quinn and Keanu Reeves in “A Walk in the Clouds” (June
21-22), Hitchcock's gorgeous “To Catch a Thief” (June 23-24),
Orson Welles in “The Third Man” (June 28-29) and the Jim
Carrey head-twister “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (June
30, July 1).
July's parade, in order: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “Double
Indemnity,” “Hitch,” “Entrapment,” “Breakfast
at Tiffany's,” “The Lady Vanishes,” “Romancing
the Stone.” And in August: “Dazed and Confused,” “Sunset
Boulevard,” “Funny Face,” “Out of Sight,“ “Garden
State,” “North by Northwest,” “Rebecca” and “Don
Juan De Marco.”
Fall brings September's “The Princess Bride,” “Bridget
Jones's Diary,” “The Graduate,” “The Notebook,” “Intolerable
Cruelty.” October wraps with “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “The
Usual Suspects,” “Wedding Crashers” and “Sleepy
Hollow.”
San
Diego Insider - SHOW
#195 / 6-07-06
"San Diego Lifestyle"
Cinema Under
the Stars
Right behind the Tops Hair Salon
in Hillcrest you’ll find something
that you never expected. It’s called Cinema Under the Stars, and
this informal outdoor theatre shows classics on a big screen in an enclosed
patio area. We’ll show you what to expect.
www.4sd.com
KPBS
ONAIR Magazine- July 2006
A Rare Film Experience
Watching a movie under the stars used to mean piling in the station wagon to
head off to the drive-in and clipping a speaker to the car window while the kids
threw popcorn around in he back seat. Today, drive-ins may be all but extinct,
but the special pleasure of spending a summer's evening outdoors watching a movie
is still alive and well in San Diego.
Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars is kind of a New Age version of the
drive-in experience. It's founder, Doug Yeagley, says he wanted to create
a "magical
and enchanting film event." And he's succeeded with the intimate outdoor
cinema he created in Mission Hills.
www.kpbs.org
San
Diego Magazine
BEST OF SAN DIEGO- June
2006
OUTDOOR MOVIE VENUE
Cinema Under the Stars
Recline in an ergonomically savvy zero-gravity chair and take in a cinematic
classic alfresco at Cinema Under the Stars (4040 Goldfinch Street,
Mission Hills, 619-295-4221). The 35-film season (which also features
theater-grade THX sound system) runs from May until October, Thursday
through Sunday at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $12, or pay the $60 membership
fee for season-long reservation privileges.
www.sandiegomagazine.com
San Diego Union Tribune
NIGHT & DAY -
May 11, 2006
In the still of the night ... go catch a movie
at Tops Presents Cinema Under the Stars
By David Elliott, Movie
Critic
An opening, a funeral, a quartet of weddings – it's
a lot of showbiz as films return to the snugly located Tops Presents
Cinema Under the Stars, in Mission Hills.
Tonight, the unique outdoor film series opens
its second revived season (it was dark for a few years after a long
run as the Garden Cabaret Cinema). The lamp-heated patio venue is next
to the Tops salon, 4040 Goldfinch St. “Four
Weddings and a Funeral,” the 1994 Brit hit that helped launch Hugh
Grant, screens tonight through Saturday.
“Our screen is now a bit bigger,” remarks founding director
Doug Yeagley, “and we have a new THX sound system. We're going
for mainly light summer fare with more films of recent vintage, and our
proven classics. And we're adding a new mural.”
Movies are up from 24 to 37, “just to have more fun.” And
customers can now buy tickets at the start of a weekend run, not just
the night they attend. The Cinema offers drinks, snacks and advanced
DVD projection on a canopied screen facing 60 seats, 35 being recliners
that can be reserved with a season membership ($60). Standard entry is
$12; the door opens at 7:30; information at (619) 295-4221 or www.topspresents.com.
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CITY
BEAT
May 10, 2006 Issue
Cinema Alfresco
Summer is right around the corner, and for those who
don’t
like being cooped up in a movie theater this time of year, yet still
enjoy catching the occasional flick, there aren’t many options.
The drive-in is retro-cool, but you can only cram so many people into
one car before views get blocked. Outdoor movie screenings are fun, but
even in San Diego, things can get a little chilly. At Cinema Under the
Stars, you don’t have to worry about all that. You can kick back
in your own personal “zero-gravity”—meaning super-duper
comfy—lawn chair, either right under or close to one of several
heating lamps and truly enjoy a film outside the theater walls. This
year’s season begins with everyone’s favorite Hugh Grant
romantic comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, showing at 8:30 p.m. Thursday
through Saturday, May 11 through 13. Cinema Under the Stars is located
at 4040 Goldfinch St. in Mission Hills. $12. (www.topspresents.com)
www.sdcitybeat.com
