Movies
It’s unfortunate that director Neal Slavin’s earnest adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Focus,” a 1945 novel that is the playwright’s first published work, is more awkward than convincing, because its theme--discrimination that begins with nothing more than appearance--is especially timely in light of attacks on Arab Americans and Sikhs after Sept. 11.
Nov. 2, 2001
She roamed across deserts, loading camels with evening gowns and cutlery, slipping through ancient ruins like a spy and finding herself the lone woman at the center of a struggle that defined the borders and politics of a Middle East that has refused to be tamed by Western powers.
June 8, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Richard Aldrich, a producer credited with the development and perpetuation of summer theater and a biographer of his late wife, actress Gertrude Lawrence, has died while visiting relatives in Virginia, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
April 19, 1986
After some 20 years away from Broadway (“Camelot” in the early ‘60s), Julie Andrews is mulling an offer to star in the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin/Moss Hart musical from the ‘40s, “Lady in the Dark.”
Dec. 21, 1986
Books
Gertrude Bell was born in 1868, in those Victorian times when women stayed home. She did not.
Nov. 3, 1996
Constance Carpenter, 87, Broadway actress who starred opposite the late Yul Brynner in “The King and I.”
Jan. 3, 1993
In the review of “The King and I” (“Royal Treatment for ‘King’,” May 18) Robert Koehler commits a major error not once but twice comparing the performance of Mrs.
June 5, 1999
Calling the benefit “a bit of paradise . . . a private moment with music,” JoAnn MacInnis, president of the Opera League of Laguna Beach, bid a reluctant farewell to guests who attended the group’s “Teahouse of the August Moon” party.
Sept. 3, 1987
Eleanor Audley, 86, a veteran actress whose Broadway career dated to the 1930s and such shows as “Pigeons and People,” which starred George M.
Nov. 27, 1991
Making his South Coast Repertory debut in Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” which opens tonight in Costa Mesa, puts Alastair Duncan in mind of the playwright’s relationship with Gertrude Lawrence.
Jan. 9, 1998