Movies
Daniel Massey, an award-winning stage and film actor and member of a distinguished theatrical family, has died at the age of 64.
March 27, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Playing Abraham Lincoln
April 4, 2011
This 1946 postwar classic finds Michael Powell in an Empyrean mood, with one of his richest fantasies: A Royal Air Force pilot (David Niven, pictured) pleads for his life before a heavenly court that proves disarmingly receptive.
March 17, 1996
Elia Kazan’s vibrant ode to adolescent torment and the war between generations is taken from the last third of John Steinback’s Salinas Valley epic.
March 19, 1995
Here’s a partial guide to the heights--and depths--of the submarine film genre, graded for their intensity, with a sauna-like 10 the sweatiest: Action in the North Atlantic (1943)--Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Julie Bishop and Ruth Gordon star in a sterling (and stirring) example of Hollywood-produced American propaganda about an American tanker sunk by a German submarine.
May 7, 1995
Here is the lineup for KCOP’s “The Very Independent Independence Day Movie Marathon”: Midnight: “Battle Cry” (1954).
June 30, 1991
Archives
Beatrice Fox was always good at working with her hands.
Feb. 4, 1999
Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ has juicy extras; Capra’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ is a crisp transfer.
Sept. 1, 2000
California
Akullian, Arthur Jack, 43, of Sherman Oaks, attorney.
Sept. 30, 1992
Television
Those who cherish the untidyness of life--unsolved murder cases, for example--will relish the ambiguity in tonight’s BBC “Mystery!”
May 9, 1991