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May 10, 2008
World & Nation
“I had a home, but I left it because of the trouble,” Ricardo said.
Jan. 20, 1991
Books
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: by Ricardo Cortez Cruz (Fiction Collective Two and the University of Colorado: $18.95; 121 pp.).
Nov. 22, 1992
Movies
This 1923 silent version, which was remade by Cecil B.
April 6, 1997
Cinematographer Stanley Cortez, whose powerful images in such American classics as “The Magnificent Ambersons” and “Night of the Hunter” won him top honors, has died.
Dec. 28, 1997
California
When sheriff’s deputies ordered four men standing around a disabled pickup truck in a Commerce all-night service station to raise their hands, they got more than they expected.
Jan. 30, 1985
Kay Linaker, 94, a 1930s and ‘40s Hollywood actress who later co-wrote the 1958 science-fiction horror film “The Blob” under the name Kate Phillips, died after a brief illness Friday in Keene, N.H.
April 24, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Anybody unfamiliar with the work of Argentine singers Alberto Cortez and Facundo Cabral might have been utterly baffled by their highly idiosyncratic show Saturday at the Wiltern Theatre.
June 1, 1998
The life of cinematographer Stanley Cortez is filled with images as powerful as those he created in such classic films as “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Night of the Hunter” and “Since You Went Away.”
Feb. 24, 1990
L.A. Unleashed
Aug. 8, 2008