Movies
Director Sara Sugarman bounds onto the scene, flinging jokes as she goes.
Feb. 19, 2004
Sara Sugarman’s “Very Annie-Mary” is an ingratiating Welsh comedy starring Rachel Griffiths in the title role as a jaunty but repressed and frumpy 33-year-old spinster who lives with her father (Jonathan Pryce) behind their bakery in a row of stone houses in the quaint village of Ogw.
March 29, 2002
“Dealers” (at the Cineplex Odeon Century City) looks like the sort of movie that might have resulted if some would-be high-rollers caught a screening of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” and decided that its setting--the sleek world of high finance--had potential but its concept had to be turned around.
Nov. 3, 1989
“Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” is so much like a colorful, fanciful pop-up Valentine’s card that it should have opened last weekend, yet a movie as funny and sharply exuberant as this Disney production is welcome any time.
Feb. 20, 2004
Sports
BASEBALL All-Freeway League First team: P--Rene Arias, Fullerton; David Stevens, La Habra; Ryan Frace, Sunny Hills; Tom Wilson, Troy; C--Darby Carmichael, Troy; IF--Chris Rubal, Fullerton; Tim Moore, La Habra; Jeff Kight and Benny Rodriguez, Sunny Hills.
June 11, 1989
From camp to serious features and documentaries, Outfest will showcase gay and lesbian films and panels at nine area venues.
June 4, 2004
High School Sports
Mustangs are making their sixth consecutive appearance in the Division I men’s tournament and their first in the women’s tournament.
March 17, 1999
Food
It’s hot and crisp and gooey at the same time. Decadently fatty, yet somehow austere-looking.
Feb. 19, 1997
World & Nation
He’d always been a fan of war photography, always wondered, deep down, if his artistic eye would perform under the duress of combat.
Oct. 1, 1992
“Those Glory, Glory Days” (Beverly Center Cineplex) is a film you wish you’d liked more, both because it’s a loving depiction of one of life’s grander passions--sports fanhood--and because it has such a fetching twist.
Feb. 28, 1986