Entertainment & Arts
“A Hatful of Rain”: A review of “A Hatful of Rain” in Friday’s Calendar section mistakenly identified playwright Michael V.
Aug. 22, 2009
Michael Vincente Gazzo, who as a writer shocked a relatively naive world in the 1950s with his piercing examination of a family torn apart by drug addiction in “Hatful of Rain,” and then earned accolades as an actor, is dead.
Feb. 25, 1995
Life can seem so full of promise when, all of a sudden, troubles begin to sprout up like weeds, choking out hope and happiness.
March 21, 2002
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Aug. 20, 2009
Monkey Business: Marla Gibbs, Kim Fields, Lewis Dix and Marvin Wright-Bey will star in Barry Hankerson’s “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show” at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Sept. 10-22.
Aug. 22, 1991
A father-and-son team, exorcising personal ghosts, brings passion to a drama of survival in “Thanksgiving Cries” at the Flight Theatre in the Complex in Hollywood.
Oct. 4, 1991
“Junkie” was a scary label in the ‘50s, when “A Hatful of Rain” premiered in New York City.
Sept. 7, 1994
Movies
The funniest observation that “Cookie” (citywide) makes about its New York Mafioso subjects is the mobsters’ routine greeting at home each night.
Aug. 23, 1989
The funniest observation that “Cookie,” opening today in San Diego County, makes about its New York Mafioso subjects is the mobsters’ routine greeting at home each night.
Sept. 15, 1989
“A Hatful of Rain” is commonly thought of as a drama about drug abuse.
Aug. 14, 1992