Entertainment & Arts
A pivotal scene in the 1933 classic “King Kong” has Fay Wray about to be sacrificed to the mysterious, still-unseen creature, as hundreds of natives watch.
March 8, 1998
Jon Burlingame reviewed a new recording of Max Steiner’s score for “King Kong” and basically stated that the music is what made that a great film (Film Clips, March 8).
March 15, 1998
World & Nation
A 23-year-old male nurse suffering from AIDS killed himself by driving deliberately into an oncoming train, police said Sunday.
May 30, 1988
Louise Klos Steiner Elian, 96, a harpist whose music was heard on the original scores of such classic movies as “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca,” died July 7 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
July 16, 2002
Books
Lessons of the Masters George Steiner Harvard University Press: 198 pp., $19.95
Feb. 15, 2004
Business
When newspaper ads start featuring “back-to-school” sales, many parents in the process of buying a new home start to panic.
Aug. 18, 1996
The piano used in the film “Casablanca” -- the one on which Dooley Wilson played “As Time Goes By” -- will be onstage tonight and Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl for the “Mediterranean Blue: From Fireworks to Fado” concerts with conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
July 14, 2006
8 p.m.
Aug. 10, 2000
Music
CHARLIE HADEN “Haunted Heart” Verve * * * Haden’s notes tell us that this CD was conceived “as if it were a film telling a story.”
Aug. 30, 1992
Movies
GOONIE TUNES--The music you might be humming when you leave “The Goonies” may well be the grand theme from “Adventures of Don Juan” (1948), composed by the legendary Max Steiner.
June 16, 1985