Entertainment & Arts
Australian producer Jane Scott still has the “hit list” of 39 movie companies, agents, distributors and other potential investors that turned her down in the pursuit of financing for a modestly budgeted movie nobody wanted to make.
March 4, 1997
Movie review: ‘American: The Bill Hicks Story’
April 15, 2011
Media: The $850-million deal is the latest in a string of chain consolidations.
Nov. 13, 1997
Acquisitions: But firm says it is still committed to a joint buy with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts of the Regal Cinemas chain.
Feb. 21, 1998
Movies: The $1.5-billion cash deal would create the world’s largest theater chain. Combined entity would have 5,347 screens.
Jan. 21, 1998
Review: ‘Hick’ plays like a creepy-perv fantasy
May 11, 2012
Movies
Fate brought director/drummer Alan Hicks and jazz trumpeter Clark Terry together. It also had a hand in Hicks meeting another of Terry’s students, Justin Kauflin. The result: ‘Keep On Keepin’ On.’
Sept. 19, 2014
Business
After pushing its eviction case to a jury trial, the Onyx Cafe, a Bohemian-style coffeehouse in Silver Lake, has been ordered to get out in 60 days.
March 31, 1988
California
The Vista Theater, which closed as a revival movie house last week, is scheduled to reopen Friday as a second-run neighborhood theater with a $2.50 admission at all times, its new management says.
June 19, 1985
Hicks Muse Tate & Furst may take 12 more months to raise its current $4-billion fund, a sign some big investors are wary of putting money with the world’s largest corporate buyout firm.
Dec. 19, 2000