Buster Keaton

'Cinderella': There's always a party at Chez Rossini

2013-03-16 06:40:00

Inevitably, our tastes change as we grow older. Most of the pop songs that once served as anthems are now exercises in nostalgia, calling up happy ghosts rather than anything new and urgent. The dense romantic adventure novel that we swore by in our teens...

Studios relying more on outside funding to make award contenders

2013-01-14 09:13:00

For this awards season, Hollywood came through with a bumper crop of movies that were critical and fan favorites. But in many cases, the big studios themselves can't take much of the credit. Among the films basking in Oscar nominations — and...

PASSINGS: Jack Hanlon dies at 96; former child star

2012-12-18 00:00:00

Jack Hanlon, 96, a former child actor who had roles in the 1926 silent film "The General" and in two 1927 "Our Gang" comedies, died Thursday at an assisted living center in Las Vegas, family members said. "He was in good physical shape until two...

Center Theatre Group, Celebration Theatre top 2012 Ovation Awards

2012-11-12 22:00:00

Southern California's biggest theater company was the biggest winner at the 2012 Ovation Awards, which were handed out Monday evening at a ceremony at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown. Center Theatre Group scooped 13 trophies for its productions of...

'Stoneface' a birthday gift for French Stewart

2012-06-17 00:00:00

If your boyfriend's birthday is coming up and you're low on cash, you can always write him a starring role in a play. That's what Vanessa Claire Smith did for French Stewart in 2010, surprising him with a script about his idol, Buster Keaton. Two...

'The Dictator' offers iron-fisted, ham-handed laughs, critics say

2012-05-16 16:37:39

Buster Keaton's classic films return: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick

2012-02-01 17:48:14

Strike up the Badgers band and let's get this show on the road

2012-01-02 22:05:00

Art review: Ricky Swallow at Marc Foxx

2011-12-08 16:32:56

TCM unveils list of 10 most influential silent films

2012-01-18 16:37:46

Oscar shorts: ‘Morris Lessmore’ has hybrid animation, iPad app

2012-01-23 21:38:05

Around Town: Anime and the real Mae

2012-01-26 16:38:20

Buster Keaton in "The General."

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Actor and comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at the Joseph Henry Steiners Birthday Party, date unknown. Arbuckle climbed to fame as an actor, most notable in the "Keystone Kops," a series of one-reel comedies, but then behind the camera as a director.

2013-01-25 15:55:42

Buster Keaton, comic film actor from the silent era, dressed as Santa Claus, and Bobbi Shaw as Santa's helper are on the set of "Beach Blanket Bingo" in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 1964.

2012-11-21 18:44:00