Ministry of Gossip
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Dec. 15, 2010
Television
The war in Iraq drags on; Osama bin Laden keeps sending us video hate mail; President Bush says we need billions to fight terrorism around the world; the nation now lives in a perpetually yellow state of “elevated” potential danger; and every day, it seems, we find another hole in our own defense system.
Sept. 18, 2003
Movies
There’s a welcome air of honesty drifting around Kerem Sanga’s “The Young Kieslowski,” a contemporary comedy-drama about a one-night-stand with unexpected ramifications.
July 23, 2015
The phrase appended to the title, “Los Locos: Posse Rides Again,” is a bit of a cheat: “Los Locos” isn’t actually a sequel to the 1993 “Posse,” in which director-star Mario Van Peebles rode tall as the leader of a mostly black outlaw gang in the Old West, defending a frontier settlement of freed slaves from the Klan and an evil would-be railroad tycoon.
April 24, 1998
‘Magnolia,’ from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, proves even more ambitious than his acclaimed ‘Boogie Nights.’
Dec. 17, 1999
Real Estate
March 10, 2014
Kutcher draws fans, but ‘The Butterfly Effect’ and his work in it won’t lift his career to Keanu heights any time soon.
Jan. 23, 2004
Actors Melora Hardin and Gildart Jackson have sold their Glendale home of more than a decade for $855,000.
Nov. 29, 2016
“Doubting Thomas” delivers a Lifetime-like take on how the birth of a black child to white parents tears a family apart.
Oct. 10, 2019
The Spanish Revival-style house in Glendale features a rotunda entry, delicate woodwork and a grand living room with a barrel rolled ceiling.