Entertainment & Arts
Point Blank (TMC Friday at 5:30 p.m.)
Feb. 10, 1991
Food
The musicians play, they chat, they pig out. Host Lenny Bent combines haute cuisine and hot tunes on public access.
May 30, 1996
Television
It was the “Roots” of gay-positive TV programming, a groundbreaking miniseries that scored big ratings for PBS, and yet there will likely be no sequel.
May 1, 1994
Business
In these days of TV commercials masquerading as full-length programs, it probably will surprise few viewers to see that “Art Underfoot,” a series debuting today about fine art carpets, is being backed by a local rug dealer.
April 7, 1990
Don’t come looking for “Wild Kingdom’s” Marlin Perkins.
May 14, 1995
George Lucas’ current box-office hit, “Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace” will appear on free television long before it ever airs on cable--a growing trend in which the rules governing what happens to a big Hollywood movie after it leaves the theaters are increasingly being bent.
May 25, 1999
Claudio Arrau, who played a demanding all-Beethoven program Tuesday at Ambassador Auditorium, continues to be a pianist of serious, old-style virtuosity.
Feb. 20, 1986
Television: Eye on the People will debut in March and focus on biographies.
Aug. 21, 1996
Archives
TV review: Despite going astray at times, the ABC program neatly explains what few others do--the idea of self-interest that makes the world go ‘round.
Feb. 3, 1998
Movies
Unabashedly provocative, Frantisek Daniel has emerged as what one USC student describes as “our own David Puttnam.”
March 16, 1988