Movies
Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak, best known for her role as the daughter of Mel Gibson’s character in the 2000 hit movie “The Patriot,” died Saturday in Texas, the Houston coroner confirmed.
July 20, 2014
Obituaries
Skye McCole Bartusiak, 21, an actress who portrayed Mel Gibson’s young daughter in the 2000 film “The Patriot,” died in a garage apartment at her parents’ Houston home, her mother said Sunday.
“Don’t Say a Word” is a sleek, engrossing suspense thriller starring Michael Douglas as a top Manhattan psychiatrist who has everything: a beautiful wife (Famke Janssen), an adorable daughter (Skye McCole Bartusiak) and a spacious apartment in the fabulous Ansonia, a Beaux Arts landmark on the Upper West Side.
Sept. 28, 2001
Other than inspiring unintended thoughts of K.C. and the Sunshine Band (“I’m your boogie man, I’m your boogie man/Turn me on/I’m your boogie man, I’m your boogie man/Do what you want”), the new horror movie “Boogeyman” has little to offer in the way of entertainment or originality.
Feb. 7, 2005
Travel & Experiences
Let me entertain you. --Baby June in “Gypsy” * Let them entertain you.
May 11, 2001
“Barney Thomson” proves a middling feature-directing debut for Scottish-born actor Robert Carlyle (“The Full Monty”), who never quite musters the requisite laughs, spirit and momentum to sell this quirky, pitch-dark comedy.
March 10, 2016
Books
This month’s issue of an insistently hip downtown New York publication includes a story on Scots novelist Irvine Welsh, suggesting that after the success of “Trainspotting” he had a decision to make: Embrace popular culture, or make his work more hard-core.
Aug. 13, 1999
“Orphans” begins with a ritual, as three adult brothers and their sister bid formal farewell to their dead mother in her Glasgow, Scotland, row house bedroom as they prepare her for her funeral the next day.
March 10, 2000
Sports
Jim Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Tigers, was in satisfactory condition Saturday at Henry Ford Hospital after surgery for a detached retina, hospital officials said.
May 29, 1988
Remembering legends, celebrities and other newsmakers who passed away this year.
Dec. 30, 2014