Entertainment & Arts
Lili Zanuck of Santa Monica, co-producer of the film “Cocoon,” and Peter Mullin of Brentwood, president of Management Compensation Group, have been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles Music Center.
Oct. 19, 1986
Movies
Set among the radiant waters of the Florida Gulf Coast, “Cocoon” (citywide) is a sly and salty bit of wish fulfillment that, by its tremendous close, has its entire audience wishing along with it.
June 21, 1985
Archives
They used to dance at private clubs, dine out five or six nights a week and take in every movie remotely worth seeing.
Aug. 7, 1987
California
You know a party is a roaring success if the cops show up . . . but what if it’s the police who threw the bash in the first place?
July 25, 1999
Music
The English trio Morcheeba spun a musical cocoon around its audience on Friday at the El Rey Theatre, crafting an alluring blend of traditional rock influences and trip-hop spaciness that slowly hypnotized the capacity crowd.
April 20, 1998
Cocoons in a take-out box are but one of the wonders that await visitors to this year’s Imagination Celebration in O.C.
April 27, 2000
James Horner, the celebrated film composer feared dead in a single-engine plane crash Monday, long considered himself a sonic chameleon.
June 23, 2015
Travel & Experiences
Wildlife: The Butterfly Place in Branson, Mo., offers an alternative to country music. Guests can commune with 1,500 of the colorful creatures in a 9,000-square-foot habitat.
July 2, 2000
Ron Howard is nervous.
June 12, 1985
“I could be one of two kinds of grandmothers,” says Martha Davis, the former singer of the Motels, and a grandmother twice over--though a young one at just 43. * “I could be a baking grandmother--or a rocking one.”
Nov. 19, 1994