Movies
Friendship is often funny. Mortality can be. Cancer typically isn’t.
Feb. 21, 2019
Director Michael Lehmann, who felt the muscle of Bruce Willis and producer Joel Silver during the production of “Hudson Hawk,” hasn’t fared much better on what was to be his next movie: 20th Century Fox’s “The Good Son.”
Oct. 27, 1991
Warning: This is not “The Breakfast Club.”
March 23, 1989
California
An intense door-to-door search for a 3-year-old who vanished from his Southeast San Diego apartment was called off Friday, but authorities are still searching for the boy and his father, a police spokesman said.
Oct. 29, 1988
Josh Hartnett plays a single guy who delves into the deeper meaning of celibacy in this frothy comedy with subtext.
March 1, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
When opera composer Thomas Pasatieri moved to California in late 1983 to work in films and television, his New York friends warned him, he says, “that my creative juices would dry up--since there was no culture out here.”
May 29, 1988
We’re all familiar with movies like “The Fly” where people mutate into icky insectoid things.
Feb. 1, 1991
Sports
Carey Hall of Australia won the men’s pro sprint at the World Cycling Championships in Stuttgart, West Germany.
Aug. 15, 1991
How to choose the top director from this mix of Oscar nominees?
Feb. 19, 2013
Ambush: Officials agree that the two Riverside officers went by the book when they answered domestic violence call.
Jan. 7, 1997