Movies
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen.
June 21, 2019
Truffaut’s tender care for his ‘Wild Child’
Jan. 7, 2009
Music
Donna Mills--a nurse, not the actress--saw the Doors in concert twice in the late ‘60s.
March 11, 1991
Another edition of your regular field guide to the world of movies in Los Angeles and beyond.
Feb. 21, 2020
To gain airtime for a difficult movie, it helps to have a friend who made “Taxi Driver.”
Nov. 24, 2015
Something HAS gone very wrong with “Where the Wild Things Are,” the much-anticipated Spike Jonze adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book.
July 12, 2008
With her feral crouch, her wild screams, her eerie crooning in a language all her own, she seems at first more an animal than a human being.
Dec. 19, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
Olivia Wilde is showing the world what it looks like when a beautiful movie star breast-feeds.
Aug. 5, 2014
Junior Healy, of “Problem Child” (which opened citywide Friday), is the Kid from Hell, an evil-minded 8-year-old who wreaks havoc everywhere: setting fire to his bedroom, torturing cats, shooing wild bears onto his camp mates and unleashing an escaped serial killer on his whole adoptive family.
July 30, 1990
A year after the mysterious disappearance of their child, grade-school teacher Sarah (Olivia Wilde) and cop Phil (Luke Wilson) find their approaches to grieving are threatening to become a permanent fracture in the woozy drama “Meadowland.”
Oct. 15, 2015