Television
“Masterpiece Theatre” launches its 25th season on PBS Sunday with an ambitious, deliciously addictive 5 1/2-hour adaptation of Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished novel, “The Buccaneers,” a lavish saga about the fortunes and misfortunes of four upstart nouveau riche American women who marry into the rigid confines of England’s 19th-Century aristocracy.
Oct. 7, 1995
Food
Here’s the recipe for an extra-rich banana dessert from Café 14 in Agoura Hills.
May 13, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
The real stars of “Saturday Night Fever,” which polyestered its way into the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday night, don’t hit the stage until perilously near the curtain call.
May 31, 2001
California
It appears that North has become famous and will become rich because of his rather serious indiscretions.
July 19, 1987
Culinary SOS: Caramel banana bread pudding
Books
‘Death Doesn’t Forget,’ the fourth novel in Ed Lin’s Taipei Night Market series, casts a Chandler-esque eye on the social fabric of urban Taiwan.
July 28, 2022
Nan Martin dies at 82; prolific actress
March 5, 2010
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination; Peter Ackroyd; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 528 pp., $40
Feb. 1, 2004
Edith Wharton’s last (unfinished) novel of American girls in England is occasionally visible in this souped-up adaptation premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+.
Nov. 7, 2023
Obituaries
Martin appeared in numerous plays and films and, over a 50-year span, TV shows. She earned honors including a Tony nomination, an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and Washington’s Helen Hayes Award.