Entertainment & Arts
Director Sidney Lumet, whose long list of films includes “Twelve Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Network” and “Family Business,” has been named an honorary life member of the Directors Guild of America.
March 3, 1989
Movies
On a stultifyingly hot day in 1972, a Vietnam vet named John Wojtowicz made headlines when he and another man tried to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for sex-reassignment surgery for Wojtowicz’s high-strung lover, Ernest Aron, who had been institutionalized after several suicide attempts.
Sept. 25, 2015
Oct. 9, 2015
The gay bandit whose bungled robbery of a Brooklyn bank inspired the movie “Dog Day Afternoon” was back in jail today for violating his parole by visiting his imprisoned “male husband.”
Aug. 15, 1986
The person whose desire for a sex-change operation prompted a homosexual lover to attempt a bank robbery--the basis for the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”--died Tuesday in Rochester, a hospital official said today.
Sept. 30, 1987
If “Dog Day Afternoon” was Hollywood’s fiery snapshot of Brooklyn bank robber John Wojtowicz’s legendary 1972 standoff with authorities and the media, then Allison Berg’s and Frank Keraudren’s engrossing new documentary, “The Dog,” is the outsized Wojtowicz in full.
Aug. 7, 2014
Obituaries
Her work on 1967’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ ushered in a new aesthetic that’s now the standard in American film. She earned Oscar nominations for ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ ‘Reds’ and ‘Wonder Boys.’
April 18, 2010
Sidney Lumet, a four-time Oscar nominee, was known for guiding strong performances in films such as ’12 Angry Men,’ ‘Network’ and ‘Dog Day Afternoon.’ He directed more than 40 films in his long career, many of them in his hometown of New York.
April 10, 2011
In the July 23 article, “Just How Far Can (or Should) Movies Go?
Aug. 20, 1989
Sports
It was panic time in the San Fernando Valley last Friday morning when Martina Navratilova went to round up her herd of traveling dogs and found one of them missing.
Aug. 19, 1986