Movies
Actor Gabe Dell--one of the movies’ original Dead End Kids who successfully graduated into adult roles in film and on the stage during a career that spanned half a century--has died of leukemia, it was learned Tuesday.
July 6, 1988
World & Nation
Newly released court documents in the case of two children who were found dead in Idaho reveal allegations that their mother believed they were zombies.
June 23, 2020
Bernard Punsly, the last surviving member of the “Dead End Kids,” the on-screen hooligans featured in numerous films in the 1930s and ‘40s, has died.
Jan. 25, 2004
Music
One of the great things about rap music is that a high-school kid can still come out of nowhere with a mature, self-produced, fully realized album that radically shifts the nature of the medium and sells a million copies--something that hasn’t been possible in rock ‘n’ roll since the ‘60s.
May 12, 1991
In “Dr.
Oct. 29, 1992
Huntz Hall, rubber-faced, smashed-nose, pop-eyed comedian who made 120 films including 87 with the durable, tough-talking Dead End Kids, later called the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys, has died.
Feb. 1, 1999
Entertainment & Arts
Sky-high sets, a cast of 42, 11,000 gallons of water. Michael Ritchie opens his tenure in L.A. with some New York-sized ambitions.
Sept. 4, 2005
Huntz Hall is not amused when asked what he’s been up to lately.
Oct. 14, 1990
Before there was Mr. Blackwell, there was Johnny. Well, not really. “I lied,” Blackwell says.
Sept. 13, 2005
One day late last May, at the end of the school year, selectstudents from 12 local junior and senior high school gathered at the Lowell Davies Festival stage in Balboa Park to perform short one-act plays for one another in a program sponsored by the Old Globe Theatre.
Oct. 22, 1991