Entertainment & Arts
MELANIE CHARTOFF, who plays the domineering high school principal Grace Musso on Fox’s Sunday night sitcom “Parker Lewis,” has patents pending here and abroad on a water-saving device that she invented after seeing a need for it in a Los Angeles house that she bought last year during the severe Southern California drought.
Sept. 27, 1992
Movies
As non-insightful and inaccurate as I found Robin Rauzi’s review of “Rugrats in Paris” (did she really not sit back and enjoy all the satire and spoofs?)
Nov. 25, 2000
Television
Everything from outlandish cartoons to familiar teen-age brats to a beloved TV news icon step into the iridescent limelight this weekend. “60 Minutes,” Sunday at 7 p.m. (2)(8), pays tribute to Harry Reasoner, the esteemed newsman who died at the age of 68 last Tuesday.
Aug. 10, 1991
What? You didn’t watch Monday’s premiere of the syndicated daytime series “Inday” on KTLA? Fool!
Oct. 9, 1985
Inside a dubbing stage on the Columbia Pictures lot, silhouetted against a monolithic video screen the size of a freeway billboard, Clyde Phillips stares up at the 10-foot-high, fish-eye image of a sexy high school principal in a fire-engine red business suit.
March 17, 1991
Choice performances add the spice in premiere of John Glore’s comedy at South Coast Rep.
May 31, 1999
Although “A Stranger Among Us” posted a lukewarm opening last weekend, the movie, dubbed “Vitness” by the trades, represents a triumph of sorts.
July 26, 1992
Having once seen “Sunday in the Park With George” on Broadway, and then seen it again in Long Beach (where the Broadway production was lovingly and meticulously reproduced by the Long Beach Civic Light Opera on the original Broadway sets and in the Broadway costumes), one begins to wonder: Is there no other way to do this show?
Nov. 5, 1986
Wait, there’s more.
Sept. 1, 1991