Movies
‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ made for much less than a major film, is also less entertaining.
May 16, 2003
Up to now, short but swift Frank Whaley has hidden his gift for snappy repartee behind a super-serious filmography: “Field of Dreams,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and “The Doors.”
April 6, 1991
High school yearbooks are filled with guys like Joe Henry, the teenager at the troubled heart of “Joe the King.”
Oct. 15, 1999
Writer-director Frank Whaley, primarily a busy film and TV actor (“Field of Dreams,” “Ray Donovan”), has crafted a tender, evocative tale of an unlikely friendship in his fourth outing behind the camera, “Like Sunday, Like Rain.”
March 19, 2015
World & Nation
About 200 inmates at a minimum security prison ended a nearly 11-hour riot early Saturday by surrendering, and all 475 inmates at the facility were evacuated to other prisons.
April 25, 1993
California
Sexual comments made to a female clerk sparked a South L.A. store owner’s shooting of the two men, LAPD officers say.
Sept. 28, 2005
Archives
Three low-rent operators named Frankie, Paulie and Joey (Richard Edson, Saverio Guerra and Frank Whaley) are sittin’ around a decrepit desert bus station, contemplating the most recent phenomenon in nearby Las Vegas: a roulette-playing idiot savant who only bets on Sundays and hasn’t lost in weeks.
July 25, 1997
In John Hughes’ “Home Alone,” Macaulay Culkin’s greatest fantasy was to have the house to himself.
April 1, 1991
Stalk-and-slash thriller toys with the audience’s perception and keeps blood to a minimum.
April 20, 2007
Mark Medoff’s play “The Homage That Follows” makes an awkward transposition to the screen as “Homage,” but it does hold attention because Medoff has created three major roles and two key supporting parts that have been cast with highly accomplished actors.
Sept. 20, 1996