Movies
Evelyn Venable, Shakespearean actress and later a professor of classics who played ingenue film roles in the 1930s and was believed to be the model for Columbia Pictures’ statuesque movie logo, has died.
Nov. 26, 1993
Entertainment & Arts
Early in his play “Kvetch,” Steven Berkoff defines its title as “anything that tends to change the control one ordinarily has over one’s body and emotions.”
March 18, 1986
More gets you less in “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” a listless sci-fi comedy in which Eddie Murphy deploys two guises and elaborate, futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect.
Aug. 19, 2002
When Bette wasn’t on the list for ‘Of Human Bondage,’ the short life of the write-in began.
Nov. 18, 2009
How could a 28-foot-tall sculpture at the entrance to an office building disappear without a trace?
July 14, 2016
Olympics
Richard Rose, a member of the Gardena-based L.A.
April 14, 1991
A few years back, at the Widescreen Film Festival at Cal State Long Beach, founder and artistic director Gary Prebula screened the 1978 Oscar-winning Vietnam War epic “The Deer Hunter.”
Sept. 18, 2005
In “The Machine That Killed Bad People,” which screens today at 8 p.m. at the Mark Goodson Theater at the American Film Institute, video maker Steve Fagin makes a bold and largely successful attempt to appraise in a fresh, provocative way what has happened--and is happening--in the Philippines.
Feb. 16, 1990
Ballrooms, Bagpipes, Blessings, Masquerades, Mystery, Mirth, Dueling Pianos and ‘Orange Lang Syne’
Dec. 28, 2000
Pass The Salt Guests at the very first Academy Awards ceremony, May 16, 1929, dined on jumbo squab perigeaux, lobster Eugenie, Los Angeles salad, terrapin and fruit supreme at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Blossom Room.
March 29, 1992