Obituaries
Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel’s breakthrough role in the erotic 1974 movie ‘Emmanuelle’ led to several sequels and appearances in more than 50 other films.
Oct. 19, 2012
Movies
Obituary: ‘Emmanuelle’ star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60
Oct. 18, 2012
‘Emmanuelle’ star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60
Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred as a sexually liberated housewife in the 1970s erotic movie “Emmanuelle,” has died of cancer at age 60.
Television
Production has begun in Madrid on “Casanova,”a three-hour movie for ABC in which Richard Chamberlain portrays the famous 17th-Century lover.
Oct. 17, 1986
World & Nation
So much for “Vive la difference”: France’s National Commission for Communication condemned the country’s independent Channel 5 on Tuesday for broadcasting soft-porn films during prime-time viewing hours and thereby “seriously damaging the morals of our children.”
Oct. 20, 1988
There is no hint that The Concorde: Airport ’79 (ABC Sunday at 8 p.m.) was meant to be a spoof, but this silly movie certainly is funny.
July 12, 1987
The latest Casanova (ABC Sunday at 8 p.m.) is a new TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain as the legendary 18th-Century lover.
March 1, 1987
Travel & Experiences
Use of the supersonic transport by stars and executives has fallen in favor of private planes. Meanwhile, other fliers crave bargain rates.
April 14, 2003
Hugo Claus, 78, an artist, poet, playwright and novelist whose books painted a scathing picture of repression and hypocrisy in bourgeois Flanders, died Wednesday by euthanasia at a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, his wife said.
March 25, 2008