Movies
“The Laws of the Universe — Part 0” is the seventh film based on the work of Ryuho Okawa, the controversial founder of the Happy Science religious group and the Happiness Realization political party in Japan.
Oct. 8, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
A Missouri man has been accused in an indictment of making video recordings of movies in theaters, the first time someone has been charged under a new federal law outlawing the practice.
Aug. 5, 2005
California
The editor of Blythe’s twice-weekly newspaper said the state attorney general has told him that refusal by the town’s only movie theater to admit the paper’s part-time movie critic may violate California’s civil rights law.
Feb. 1, 1989
Music
Adrian Cronauer, whose life is the basis for Robin Williams’ demon disc jockey role in “Good Morning, Vietnam,” has seen the movie three times and says he would have had a part in it had it not been for law school.
Jan. 21, 1988
The website was known to enable illegal copying. The U.S. movie industry praises the action.
June 1, 2006
In a controversial test case, a Van Nuys jury found an Encino producer of hard-core sex films guilty of pandering Wednesday, making him the first film maker convicted in California under a law that mandates a three-year prison sentence for hiring people to perform sex acts.
May 23, 1985
Between his arrest in 1983 for producing the sex movie “Caught From Behind, Part II” and his final victory before the U.S.
Feb. 27, 1989
Taking on the role of violent criminal Dom Hemingway is a gamble and a deliberate career move for Jude Law, who likes the character’s destructiveness and mouthiness.
April 2, 2014
* As a woman, I was offended by Thousand Oaks Councilman Mike Markey’s comment that “violent movies make more people violent, but no movies make people rape.”
Nov. 3, 1995
Jude Law’s acting evolution from heartthrob to hothead