Movies
Note: A version of this review previously appeared in the Calendar section on March 2, 1998.
Dec. 14, 2017
Obituaries
Author Elaine Kendall was a longtime book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She died in Montecito at age 91.
Aug. 12, 2019
A two-week retrospective at the Music Hall brings back some of the filmmaking pair’s lesser-known achievements.
March 12, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
The Bard’s the thing on the London stage these days, with a stream of productions competing with the Royal Shakespeare Company along with a renewed confidence in Shakespeare’s selling power.
Feb. 21, 1989
“It’s no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
June 10, 2003
Maggie Gyllenhaal will play the role originated by Glenn Close on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” which is set to open Oct. 30 in a production by the Roundabout Theatre in New York.
Feb. 11, 2014
Dustin Hoffman opens as Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” in London on Thursday night.
May 27, 1989
Dec. 15The Ballad of Lefty Brown A cowboy in Montana sets out to bring the killers of his friend, a U.S. senator, to justice.
Dec. 10, 2017
California
Two wealthy parents have been convicted of buying their kids’ way into school as athletic recruits in the first case to go to trial in the college admissions cheating scandal.
Oct. 8, 2021
Music
Four singer-songwriters outside the bounds of rock are the mainstays of a women’s tour--this one is free--that picks up where the fair left off.
July 12, 2000