Music
HOT FLASH DEPT.: Producer Peter Landecker has cast actor/musician Bob Miles, 35, to play Bob Dylan in his upcoming theater production, “Dylan: Words and Music.”
Jan. 18, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Frederick S. Wight looked like a career diplomat.
Aug. 3, 1986
We get a little nervous when modern artists depart too far from our stereotype of them as working-class heroes or Bohemian aristocrats.
Feb. 8, 1991
A lightweight building suspended from the ceiling of UCLA’s Wight Art Gallery, “floatinghouse, DEADMAN,” by Los Angeles artist Peter Shelton, will be on display in the gallery through March 8.
Feb. 15, 1987
Obituaries
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan defiantly going electric at the Newport Folk Festival and filmed Jimi Hendrix’s final concert performance, has died.
Sept. 6, 2017
Benedict Cumberbatch is officially off the market: The star of “Sherlock” and “The Imitation Game” has married Sophie Hunter.
Feb. 16, 2015
“Certainly a house cannot float?”
March 2, 1987
The Getty Villa aims to put the Old Masters of drama back on stage, starting with Euripides’ ‘Hippolytos.’
Aug. 27, 2006
Some sprinkle it on, some throw it, and some just let it drip.
Dec. 20, 1987
Many Americans feel their country’s recent military victory in the Persian Gulf was really quite lovely as wars go.
March 27, 1991