World & Nation
As investigators’ doubts continue to mount in the alleged gunpoint kidnapping of an Encino Bible study teacher, detectives are exploring whether the woman may have fabricated her account based on a movie starring Alicia Silverstone.
Nov. 25, 1998
California
Anna May Wong, who faced discrimination and stereotyping throughout her acting career, will be the fifth woman featured on the U.S. quarter this year.
Oct. 19, 2022
Entertainment & Arts
A fifth sex-film performer has tested positive for HIV, an industry health group said Wednesday, becoming the latest known to be infected in an outbreak that has roiled the multibillion-dollar industry and halted production on dozens of movies.
May 6, 2004
Feb. 28, 2018
Movies
Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, who died Monday at age 84, may not have been as well known as some of his contemporaries — Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese — but over the course of his career, the five-time Oscar nominee left his mark on cinema as a writer and director of intelligent, quirky, often hilarious movies about the complexities of male-female relationships.
July 1, 2014
Flying High: Genie granted “Aladdin’s” wish at the box office this weekend.
Jan. 25, 1993
“Big,” “Sister Act” and “X-Men: First Class” are the other potential finalists this week.
May 26, 2020
A mistrial was declared Thursday in the trial of a $42.5-million lawsuit filed by a stunt woman left paralyzed after a 1980 crash on a movie set in Nevada.
May 9, 1986
In “The Shadow of the Wolf,” a young Inuit is cast out from his Eskimo village after killing a white man.
March 18, 1993
Books
The novelist is in full control of the courtroom drama as Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure who’s accused of murdering a banker.
April 5, 2011