Movies
Read Kevin Thomas’ 1973 review of ‘The Sting’
Dec. 23, 1973
L.A. Unleashed
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Jan. 19, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
A 19-year-old movie theater cashier faces eight years in prison after pleading guilty to bootlegging movies and posting them to the Web, prosecutors said.
Sept. 28, 2005
An antitrust suit by actor Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill, claiming they got stung on home-video revenue from their hit movie “The Sting,” was rejected Monday by a federal appeals court.
April 7, 1987
Company Town Blog
May 11, 2011
A phony movie company set up in Santa Monica as an FBI sting operation has led to the indictments of three organized crime figures and a Teamsters Union officer on charges of attempting to bribe union officials in Boston and Las Vegas, federal agents said Tuesday.
July 15, 1992
One of three New England mob figures caught in the FBI’s elaborate Los Angeles-based movie sting--designed to ferret out organized crime influence over film unions--pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges.
June 15, 1994
The former transportation captain of New England’s largest Teamsters local was convicted Thursday on federal conspiracy charges, but a former union vice president was acquitted in the trial that culminated the FBI’s Dramex sting, which had an agent pose as a film producer to smoke out organized crime influence over labor unions in the movie industry.
Dec. 23, 1994
Actor Chris Pratt said in an Instagram post that he got stung by a bee after a viral beekeeper gave him a ‘false sense of security.’ She fired back.
Dec. 23, 2022
If “Stormy Monday” (selected theaters) can’t in all honesty be called a success, it can certainly be called a great-looking diversion.
April 29, 1988