Television
For viewers who find “The Knick” too gory and “Masters of Sex” too graphic, the answer can be found, as answers so often are, on PBS’ “Masterpiece.”
Aug. 30, 2014
Oscar-winner Adrien Brody is the obvious draw for History’s four-hour, two-part bio-pic “Houdini,” which attempts to show the man behind the great-escape legend.
Aug. 28, 2014
World & Nation
Ewen “Ding” Dingwall, 83, manager of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and its landmark structure, the Space Needle.
Oct. 30, 1996
Sports
Dear Dingwall took the lead in the stretch and held on to win the $23,000 feature race for 3-year-olds and up Thursday on the turf course at Del Mar.
Aug. 14, 1987
French police detective Jules Maigret (“commissioner” is his title, but not in the American “Commissioner Gordon” sense) is back on television in the surprising but ultimately persuasive person of Rowan Atkinson, better known to the world as Mr.
March 2, 2018
FBI agents, at the request of New Zealand police, are searching here for a suspected French agent who infiltrated the environmental group Greenpeace shortly before a bomb sank the group’s ship in New Zealand last July, a Greenpeace official said Wednesday.
Sept. 5, 1985
Movies
Farce, far from being sturdy, is the most delicate of critters.
March 18, 1988
Archives
Eric Dingwall, Craig Gross, Scott Goodman and Rod Cramblit each scored one goal Monday to lead UC San Diego to a 4-0 victory over Southern California College in a nonconference soccer match at Costa Mesa.
Sept. 15, 1987
The mother ship of Japan’s last whaling fleet departed today for the South Pole to catch 300 minke whales for what Japan called scientific research to assess the mammals’ population.
Dec. 23, 1987
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival opens today for two weeks at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas.
April 14, 1989