Real Estate
Call it the Wallace Neff factor.
March 12, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
Most young journalists would find it hard to believe that the colorful newspaper types populating “His Girl Friday” (Thursday at UCLA’s Melnitz Theater at 7:30 p.m.), Howard Hawks’ justly celebrated 1940 reworking of “The Front Page,” once actually existed.
April 12, 1993
Movies
William Wyler’s deserved reputation for turning literary stage works into top-notch movies (such as “The Little Foxes” and “The Heiress”) was borne out early with the 1936 “Dodsworth,” an adaptation from Sidney Howard’s Broadway play based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.
April 25, 1991
“What Women Want” is the latest twist on a venerable movie genre: sexual politics in the office between men and women.
Dec. 10, 2000
Before the Production Code went into effect, Hollywood in the 1930s produced zesty, racy, socially conscious films that gave actors something to say and do, and audiences something to take home that wasn’t just brightly colored, romanticized pap.
Nov. 12, 1993
Think of it as a tawdry and tarnished golden age, a five-year period, unprecedented in Hollywood history, when a single studio turned out dozens of raffish, exuberant films made with a frankness not seen before or since.
July 31, 1994
California
Three groups of volunteer tutors who were trained to teach the reading, writing and speaking of English as a second language have been certified by the Central Orange County Literacy Council.
Nov. 2, 1991
Who’s That Knocking at My Door?
Sept. 12, 1993
The Stationmaster’s Wife (Bravo Monday at 12:15 a.m.): In the late R.W.
April 23, 1989
Like all history, Hollywood history is a matter of interpretation as much as facts.
April 8, 2016