Entertainment & Arts
The pallid attempt to revive “Harvey” at La Mirada Theatre is no more solid than the play’s own giant white rabbit.
April 10, 1993
Books
Actor John Astin portrays the brooding author in a one-man show that highlights the writer’s theories about the universe. Nevermore will he be known as just the creator of spooky tales and dark poetry.
July 22, 1999
Movies
Sean Astin jokes that he started acting “straight out of the womb.” Well, not exactly.
Oct. 20, 1990
Television
ABC canceled “The Addams Family,” the sitcom based on popular Charles Addams’ cartoons, in 1966.
March 8, 1992
What better way to gear up for Halloween than spending a couple of hours in the company of that morbid literary genius Edgar Allan Poe?
Oct. 17, 2002
Orange County
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera.
May 6, 2019
Obituaries
Helen (Lena) Astin, a feminist scholar and longtime professor of higher education at UCLA, where she helped direct studies on women’s career development and the spirituality of college students, died Oct. 27 at her Brentwood home after a long illness.
Nov. 8, 2015
John Astin, Carolyn Jones and Jackie Coogan headline the 1977 retrospective Halloween With the Addams Family (Sunday at 7:35 a.m. on TBS).
Oct. 31, 1993
Lend Me a Lead: Actor John Astin, whom television viewers remember as husband Gomez on TV’s “The Addams Family,” will take over the role of the opera impresario when “Lend Me a Tenor” moves to the Henry Fonda Theatre.
Feb. 26, 1992
From ‘Goonies’ to ‘Rudy’ to his current hit, Sean Astin has managed to remain grounded.
Jan. 20, 2003