Entertainment & Arts
Sometimes, a particular story, however popular or enduring, can simply be done to death.
March 15, 2000
Historians have suggested that schoolteacher Anna Leonowens exaggerated the importance of her role to the king of Siam in her books, which became a novel and then became the musical “The King and I.”
May 25, 1998
Books
Margaret Landon, author of the book “Anna and the King of Siam,” which inspired the hit Broadway musical and movie “The King and I,” has died.
Dec. 6, 1993
Historians have suggested that schoolteacher Anna Leonowens exaggerated the importance of her role to the king of Siam in her books, which became a novel, and which then became the musical “The King and I.”
May 21, 1998
MOVIES Patrick Goldstein is a Times staff writer.
Dec. 12, 1999
Movies
As a Thai woman who has grown up in America, I was surprised that your usually perceptive film critic, Kenneth Turan, missed the boat when reviewing “Anna and the King” (“AMore Real, Regal Siam,” Dec. 17).
Dec. 27, 1999
Fox Studio Classics Fox ($15) Every month, Fox releases digital editions of the studio’s classic and popular films from the golden age of Hollywood.
May 22, 2005
Billy Aniceto, who plays the Siamese ruler in the Yorba Linda Civic Light Opera’s “The King and I,” is pretty good at the old huff-and-puff.
May 11, 1994
‘Anna’ looks good and has gifted actors, but something about it doesn’t sing.
Dec. 17, 1999
Stefanie Powers is finding something wonderful in ‘The King and I.’
April 3, 2005