Obituaries
George Kennedy, the veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke,” died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, of natural causes, said his grandson Cory Schenkel.
Feb. 29, 2016
World & Nation
It was a scene straight from the movies.
March 29, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Lalo Schifrin lit fuse of many composers
Feb. 23, 2011
All the Rage
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Oct. 1, 2008
Movies
The Cat That Changed America There is probably more than one lonely heart living a solitary life in the Hollywood Hills, and maybe more than a few sporting authority-ordered GPS homing devices, but none so famous as the magnificent Griffith Park mountain lion, P-22, featured in this in new 2017 documentary.
July 8, 2017
The Soviet government’s love affair with Hollywood is deepening.
Feb. 10, 1988
Refusing to romanticize his nonconformist characters, the star put his sex appeal to complicated and fascinating use.
Sept. 28, 2008
Today his studio is designed to look like an emergency operating room of a hospital.
June 12, 1988
Stuart Rosenberg, a prolific director of episodic television who is best known for directing the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” has died.
March 18, 2007
Paul Newman, that pure and concentrated essence of classic movie stardom, reinvented himself a couple of times in the span of his long career, until he ended up playing the kind of guy he might have become had he never left his native Shaker Heights, Ohio: an ultra-conservative, cold-fish Midwestern lawyer, married for decades to the same woman (see his performance in the Merchant-Ivory jewel box “Mr.