Entertainment & Arts
The three-day California State University Media Arts Festival, which kicks off Monday, will include a retrospective of films by Martha Coolidge.
June 27, 1996
New Callings: Four new trustees have been elected to the board of the American Film Institute: producer-writer Martha Coolidge; Robert Johnson, president of Black Entertainment Television; musician Michael Nesmith and producer-director-writer Irwin Winkler.
July 16, 1992
Open Forum: Actress Christine Lahti, actor Gregory Harrison and director Martha Coolidge (“Rambling Rose”) will be part of a panel examining “Sexual Harassment in the Entertainment Industry: What It Is and What to Do About It” Monday from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Directors Guild Theater.
May 28, 1992
Movies
A comic but tender bedroom scene between Laura Dern and 14-year-old Lukas Haas in the movie “Rambling Rose” has been drawing astonished laughter from screening audiences and others who’ve seen the film in recent weeks.
Sept. 15, 1991
Travel & Experiences
Martha Coolidge’s horses aren’t “Pacifinos” but Paso Finos (Whatever, July 6).
July 20, 1997
High atop a mountain overlooking the small town that was the site of the 18th annual Telluride Film Festival this week, director Martha Coolidge had every reason to feel on top professionally as well as altitudinally.
Sept. 5, 1991
The ninth International Women’s Film Festival, sponsored by Women in Film, will open Feb. 28 at the Avco Cinema in Westwood with a benefit screening of Martha Coolidge’s “Angie,” starring Geena Davis, Aida Turturro and Stephen Rea.
Feb. 18, 1994
Gilbert Cates, dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, has announced that Martha Coolidge, Anjelica Huston, Martha Luttrell, Penny Marshall, Dawn Steel, Paula Wagner and Denzel Washington have been named to the Dean’s Advisory Board, recently established to provide assistance on a wide range of priorities for the school, including preparing students for the professional challenges of the entertainment industry.
Feb. 20, 1993
From the youth culture of “Valley Girl” (Nicolas Cage’s first starring role) to the, um, non-youth culture of “Out to Sea” (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau), director Martha Coolidge has covered a lot of ground.
July 6, 1997
Archives
Michael Cieply’s article on the body count of women directors implied that Martha Coolidge’s separation from “Some Kind of Wonderful” might be a part of some overall industry bias against women directors (“A Fired Film Director--New Questions, Issue Continues,” March 11).
March 19, 1988