Movies
Steve Railsback is one actor for whom interesting things have long been forecast.
June 1, 1985
Entertainment & Arts
Jeremy Davies embodies Charles Manson in the new ‘Helter Skelter.’ Let’s let Steve Railsback talk about trying to escape that image.
May 16, 2004
Television
USA Network tonight debuts its World Premiere Movies with “The Forgotten”(9-11 p.m.), a story of six American MIAs who are released from the hell of Vietnam into the hell of U.S. military and political corruption.
April 26, 1989
Valerie Bertinelli may have gotten top billing in the TV miniseries “In a Child’s Name” (CBS, Nov. 17, 19), but Michael Ontkean stole the show as the deadly dentist Ken Taylor.
Dec. 22, 1991
The tortured life of a Wisconsin murderer is told in an awkward, under-inspired fashion.
May 4, 2001
Ran (SelecTV Sunday at 12:30 p.m.): Akira Kurosawa’s glorious retelling of “King Lear” as a tale of medieval Japan. (2:45) The Gunfighter (Z Monday at 1:30 p.m.): Often referred to as “the last of the handlebar Westerns,” starring Gregory Peck. (1:25) The Stunt Man (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.): Richard Rush’s engagingly bizarre comedy in which fugitive Steve Railsback crosses paths with Peter O’Toole’s larger-than-life director, who’s filming at Hotel del Coronado. (2:00) The Magnificent Matador (Channel 7 Wednesday at 1 a.m.): One of Budd Boetticher’s legendary bullfighting films, starring Anthony Quinn and Maureen O’Hara. (2:00) Shadow of a Doubt (Channel 13 Thursday at 2 a.m.): Hitchcock’s favorite among his films, in which a smilingly sinister Joseph Cotten visits his unsuspecting relatives in Santa Rosa. (2:00)
July 10, 1988
Hold everything! Where’s the blue monkey in Spectrafilm’s “Blue Monkey?”
Sept. 27, 1987
If you’re unlucky, or foolhardy, enough to find yourself in the Monica Theatre for a screening of “Scissors,” you might while away the time noting how it botches just about every thriller cliche ever invented.
March 22, 1991
Films going into production: GREEN MONKEY (Spectrafilm/Howard International Film Group).
Feb. 8, 1987
Movies like David Nutter’s “Disturbing Behavior,” written by Scott Rosenberg, the author of last summer’s worst movie, “Con Air,” are the reason valet parking attendants in Beverly Hills leave scripts on the seats.
July 24, 1998