David Brown

'Argo' producer scours for the next stranger-than-fiction story

2013-01-28 07:00:00

Hunched over a desk in his spartan Westwood apartment, David Klawans squints at his computer monitor and knits his brow in concentration. "I'm perusing," he says. His eyes dart between headlines almost indecipherable on a Web page displaying about 800...

Helen Gurley Brown, longtime Cosmopolitan editor, dies at 90

2012-08-14 00:00:00

In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl." When...

Hollywood legend Dick Zanuck: a princeling who earned his stripes

2012-07-13 17:34:00

When Dick Zanuck and I had lunch last month, it would’ve been impossible to imagine that the veteran producer would be gone six weeks later. Zanuck, who was 77 when he died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, looked at least a decade younger and...

Richard Zanuck dies at 77; Oscar-winning producer

2012-07-14 00:00:00

One day in 1962, the Hollywood legend Darryl F. Zanuck turned to his 27-year-old son, Richard, seeking advice. Whom, the elder Zanuck asked, should he appoint head of production of 20th Century Fox, which had fallen on hard times and was losing...

Theater review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

2012-01-24 16:33:20

Theater review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center

2011-03-31 16:33:06

Geoff Miller dies at 74; a founder of Los Angeles magazine

2011-04-18 00:00:00

At UCLA in the late 1950s, the concept for a magazine celebrating an "unruly young city" started to take off after grad student Geoff Miller happened upon David Brown, an ad executive with an "ambitious scheme," Miller later wrote. Miller put aside plans...

Decoding Columbia: A detective story

2003-12-21 00:00:00

James Hallock discovered just how little it takes to bring down a space shuttle. He did it by playing with pencils. As a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, the pear-shaped, bewhiskered expert on flight safety had a New Englander's...

Swallowing the fire: Columbia's final voyage

2003-12-26 00:00:00

It was at best a make-work mission. The 80 experiments on the agenda for Columbia's 28th flight had no urgency. Many were high school student projects. In truth, it was a mission meant to maintain momentum. After 13 delays in two years, shuttle planners...

Thunder sweep first round playoff series against Arizona

2013-04-04 14:22:00

Courtesy of Wichita Thunder - Prescott Valley, AZ (April 3rd) -� In a see-saw affair on Wednesday night, Les Reaney scored four minutes into the first overtime session to give the Thunder a 4-3 win over Arizona at Tim's Toyota Center. Wichita earns...

Montverde's new Outside the Box Theatre stages 'Crimes of the Heart'

2013-02-08 00:00:00

MONTVERDE — When three McGrath sisters reunite after a family crisis, they must own up to their "Crimes of the Heart." The 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy drama by Beth Henley opens at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, by the new Outside the Box Theatre...

BASD Honor Roll

2012-11-19 16:28:17

Johnny Calvin Brewer stands in front of the Texas Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, in Dallas. Dallas Police Chief David Brown honored him who led them to Lee Harvey Oswald's hiding place in the movie theater 48 years ago. Brewer was given a Citizen's Certificate of Merit.

2011-11-23 06:52:26