Movies
A potentially precious and maudlin conceit gets an absorbing and intriguing treatment in “Retake,” an impressive road drama about a middle-aged gay man who hires a young hustler to join him on a life-changing ride to the Grand Canyon.
Jan. 5, 2017
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Nov. 5, 2007
Entertainment & Arts
It must have sounded like a good idea for a farce: a spoof of Hollywood in which a bellhop and a man-hungry divorcee eventually deliver the script that a successful TV writer and his well-established British partner can’t.
April 22, 1992
They’re young, not too far out of their college years when the university drama department didn’t always quite know what to make of them, and now, deep in the belly of the Hollywood beast.
Aug. 8, 1993
Television
I was delighted to read a positive article on “Six Feet Under,” yet I feel Mimi Avins did the show some disservice (“It’s More Than Death,” Aug. 18).
Aug. 25, 2001
Here’s an idea you haven’t heard more than four dozen times: Take a group of demographically diverse college friends, ones who never seemed to like one another that much to begin with, and toss them like a salad with croutons of unresolved sexual attraction, floriated radishes of career anxiety, the occasional legume of substance abuse, serve it all up at a wedding--it could be a funeral, but let’s keep things light--and watch the comedic indigestion begin!
April 15, 1998
We’ve heard of the second coming, but this is ridiculous.
Aug. 20, 1993
Awards
Plans advance to revive “One Life to Live” and “All My Children”
Jan. 22, 2013
Just a day after celebrating his Emmy win last Sunday, Jeremy Piven kept the party going at the premiere of “The Kingdom” at the Mann’s Village Theatre in Westwood.
Sept. 23, 2007
While waiting in line for a show a few weeks ago, a theatergoer argued that, with the volume of plays in Los Angeles (more than 150 playing at last count), surely there was room for “difficult” plays along with the “easy” ones.
March 3, 1993