Entertainment & Arts
In Morning Report of Nov. 29, you reported about a spoof in the Onion, a Madison, Wis. publication, about plans to re-release “The Big Chill” in a “newly contextualized, digitally re-zeitgeisted format.”
Dec. 6, 1997
The palimony trial of actor William Hurt came to an end Tuesday with testimony from his former wife who said he once told her he was “finished with marriage.”
June 29, 1989
Television
In “Baby Girl Scott,” John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt (top photo) are parents who face an emotionally complicated debate: whether or not to prolong the life of their premature and severely underdeveloped infant daughter.
May 24, 1987
Movies
In “Parents” (citywide)--Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt make a perfect pair of all-American ‘50s gargoyles: the suburban mom and dad from hell.
Jan. 27, 1989
There’s an intelligent thriller lurking inside “Defenseless,” but the intelligence is constantly obscured by the B-movie plot devices and crude direction and a jangly score that telegraphs everything but the kitchen sink.
Aug. 23, 1991
People who have ever been romantically pursued or dropped (for no perceivable good reason) will find a lot to relate to in “Chilly Scenes of Winter.”
Nov. 11, 1993
Mark Rappaport’s venturesome “From the Journals of Jean Seberg” imagines that the ill-fated actress, an apparent suicide in 1979 at age 40, has risen from the grave to tell us the story of her roller coaster life.
May 31, 1996
People who have been romantically pursued or dropped (for no perceivable good reason) will find a lot to relate to in “Chilly Scenes of Winter.”
Head Over Heels (KABC Monday at midnight), Joan Micklin Silver’s intimate 1979 film of Ann Beattie’s novel “Chiullyu Scenes of Winter,” suggests that even in an era of fleeting encounters a man (John Heard) can be so enraptured by a woman (Mary Beth Hurt) that he will wait for her a decade or so.
May 9, 1993
SERIES Randy Quaid, now in theaters in “Quick Change” and “Days of Thunder,” has been signed to play the title role in “The Principal,” an ABC sitcom scheduled to air during the 1990-91 season.
Aug. 12, 1990