Entertainment & Arts
In a move to “raise the industry’s consciousness of his gifts to film,” according to actor and longtime friend Bud Cort, there will be a memorial tribute to the late director Hal Ashby at noon today at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood.
Dec. 30, 1988
Columbia TriStar’s just-released “Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector’s Edition” ($14) is being described as the “definitive” version of Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi blockbuster starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr and Cary Guffey.
May 14, 1998
Movies
Steven Spielberg’s magical, mystical 1977 adventure involving a UFO stars Richard Dreyfuss as a power company worker who sets out to discover what has blacked out half his state.
July 17, 1994
Business
The grocery company’s price cutting boosts sales but also hurts its gross profit margin in the third quarter.
Dec. 8, 2004
The grocer uses deep discounts to lure back shoppers, hurting profit margins. It writes down the value of Ralphs and Food 4 Less.
March 9, 2005
Friday’s TV highlights
Feb. 3, 2012
Films going into production: A BOY’S LIFE (Joseph Feury). Shooting in S. Carolina.
Oct. 11, 1987
Holidays in the Movies A young boy (Peter Billingsley) has a big ask for Santa in the nostalgic 1983 holiday comedy “A Christmas Story,” based on the writings of humorist Jean Shepherd.
Dec. 14, 2018
Harry and the Hendersons (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.), a misfired 1987 comic-fantasy about a Seattle family taking home an injured Bigfoot, emulates the Steven Spielberg look and feel, but director William Dear hasn’t captured his writer-producer’s fairy-tale acumen.
Oct. 10, 1993
Television
May 7, 2010