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Oct. 13, 2011
Movies
The 50th Year When: April 3, 1978 Where: The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Host: Bob Hope Winners: Best picture: “Annie Hall”; best actress: Diane Keaton for “Annie Hall”; best actor: Richard Dreyfuss for “The Goodbye Girl”; best supporting actor: Jason Robards for “Julia”; best supporting actress: Vanessa Redgrave for “Julia”; best director: Woody Allen for “Annie Hall” Milestones: Several former Oscar winners and stars from the golden age of Hollywood were assembled as presenters for the 50th anniversary telecast, including William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck, who first starred together in 1939’s “Golden Boy,” Joan Fontaine, Kirk Douglas, Greer Garson, Eva Marie Saint, Natalie Wood, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire, Stanley Kramer and Paddy Chayefsky.
March 23, 2003
Video Store Magazine, published in Irvine, has these suggestions for Valentine’s Day video rentals: “An American in Paris,” 1951.
Feb. 14, 1991
Following is the tentative order of awards and presenters for the Academy Awards.
March 29, 1987
Robert Luketic’s thriller with Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth has many Hemsworth beauty shots but few surprises.
Aug. 15, 2013
Television
The new two-part Common Ground (CBS Sunday and Tuesday at 9 p.m.) focuses on three families caught up in the turbulent events surrounding the desegregation of Boston’s public schools.
March 25, 1990
The first of the week’s many yuletide movies is a repeat of the 1986 TV film The Christmas Star (ABC Sunday at 7 p.m.), a better-than-average family entertainment starring Ed Asner as a convict who escapes from prison in a Santa Claus suit, which has the effect of melting his gruff exterior.
Dec. 13, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
John Dreyfuss, a former architecture and design critic for the Los Angeles Times who also wrote features and covered higher education and the environment in a 27-year career with the paper, has died.
Aug. 24, 2004
Awards
Fraudulent investment adviser Bernie Madoff had a laundry list of complaints about his depiction in the recent, two-part ABC TV movie “Madoff.”
June 10, 2016
Actor Richard Dreyfuss seems to have come out on top in his suit against Tri-Star Pictures Inc., if only in principle.
Jan. 23, 1989