John Landis

When movie costumes become fashion trends

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has worked as a costume designer on more than 20 films over the last 40 years. Along the way, she has created several looks that have crossed into popular culture and become fashion trends. Here are a few anecdotes, in her own...

Deborah Landis, ever the advocate for costume designers

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Designing costumes so ingrained in popular culture that they still inspire Halloween disguises 30 years after they were created — Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket, Indiana Jones' signature outback slouch look and the unforgettable "College"...

Weddings from a simpler time

2012-10-28 00:00:00

It was 150 years after his patent went into effect, but John Landis Mason's glass jars with seal-tight lids experienced a renaissance in 2008 — although it wasn't for the use he'd originally intended. Instead of pickling vegetables or preserving...

Before ‘Twilight,’ ‘Lost Boys’ made vampires fun

2012-08-17 17:53:01

Shopping malls' greatest movie moments

2011-11-20 00:00:00

Shopping centers have always been about more than shopping. Before the rise of Internet-based social interaction, malls were a workplace, gathering place and pop culture petri dish for the better part of two generations. That made them the perfect...

Chris Paul buys Avril Lavigne's Bel-Air mansion for $8.495 million

2012-01-29 00:00:00

L.A. Clipper Chris Paul may be quick down the court, but he moves pretty fast when it comes to buying multimillion-dollar real estate too. The All-Star bought and closed on the Bel-Air home of singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne for $8.495 million just a...

Producer Leslie Belzberg lists Bel-Air home

2012-01-12 13:06:00

Producer Leslie Belzberg has listed her Bel-Air home for sale at $2.395 million. The remodeled post-and-beam house, built in 1963, retains its midcentury vibe with walls of glass, oversized flagstone fireplaces and cork floors. The five-bedroom, four-...

'Animal House' musical to bring toga party to Broadway

2012-03-06 16:34:01

Bond girls, movie monsters, Cole Porter in TCM Classic Film Fest

2012-03-28 16:38:25

Simon Pegg riffs on 'Dawn of the Dead,' zombie consumers and popular culture

2011-06-16 16:35:17

Theater review: 'Fifth of July' at the Lex Theatre

2011-06-02 21:33:28

A performer who kept transcending boundaries

2009-06-26 00:00:00

Michael Jackson was not of this world. He always seemed to defy gravity, as a dancer whose signature move was so incomprehensibly graceful that it earned the extraterrestrial title "the Moonwalk," a singer whose tenor was high but strong, a rhythmic...

Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors where killed on July 23, 1982, when a helicopter crashed during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie." The script had called for Morrow to heroically carry the children across the Santa Clara River, away from the pursuing helicopter.

2012-01-06 11:17:59

Michael Jackson's sixth studio album was released on Nov. 30, 1982. The album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards and became the best-selling album of all time. Videos for the songs "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" were popular on MTV , which had launched just a year earlier. John Landis directed

2012-01-06 10:05:35

Forty members of the Berlin Brothersvalley High School Class of 1966 attended their 45th year class reunion held Sept. 17 at the Lodge at Hilltop near Macdonaldton. The classmates and their 28 guests represented Pennsylvania and eight additional states.

2011-10-10 12:17:21