Orange County
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera.
May 6, 2019
Entertainment & Arts
March 29, 2016
Movies
They should have kept a lid on “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie” (citywide).
Aug. 25, 1987
Tiffanie DeBartolo’s “Dream for an Insomniac” proves to be a snooze that seems more play than movie but would probably be only marginally better on stage than screen.
June 19, 1998
“The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human,” a mockumentary that charts and analyzes the courtship behavior of two healthy, young Homo sapiens, begins with the disembodied voice of an intellectually advanced extraterrestrial (David Hyde Pierce) informing us that “of all the beings in the universe, none possess the mating ritual as complex as the earthbound human.”
Oct. 8, 1999
“Welcome to the Men’s Group” has perhaps the most full-frontal male nudity ever in a mainstream movie.
May 14, 2018
Like the earnest young man it’s named after, “Iron Will” (citywide) would blush and protest if any kind of fuss were made over it.
Jan. 14, 1994
Ernest Hemingway discovers the rocky side of romance in Richard Attenborough’s latest film.
Dec. 18, 1996
I always thought I would see Anna again.
Whit Stillman’s stylish comedy is the latest addition to what he calls his ‘Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series.’
May 29, 1998