Julie Harris

UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV

2013-03-15 05:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...

Charles Durning dies at 89; Tony winner also got Oscar, Emmy nods

2012-12-25 08:22:00

Charles Durning, a Tony Award-winning actor whose prolific work in films and television included supporting roles in the classic comedy "Tootsie" and the TV sitcom "Evening Shade," died Monday. He was 89. Durning, a decorated veteran of World War II,...

Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault

2012-10-26 10:00:00

Twelve years after his death on tax day 2000, Edward Gorey — writer, illustrator, Victorian aesthete born half a century too late — has earned an adjective all his own: "Goreyesque." The word is used, increasingly, to refer to anything that...

Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent

2011-10-16 19:28:00

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. For two decades, Mengers was one of...

The new talkies: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close-up

2011-09-29 21:33:02

Jason Alexander to receive Actors Fund award

2012-04-04 16:33:37

Sue Mengers, powerhouse Hollywood agent, dies at 79

2011-10-16 21:33:52

Flashback: When 'The Defenders' swept the Emmys

2010-09-23 16:34:04

Sean Penn to present lifetime achievement award to Hal Holbrook

2011-05-19 16:33:06

Noel Taylor dies at 97; longtime costume designer for stage and screen

2010-11-09 00:00:00

Noel Taylor, an award-winning costume designer whose career spanned seven decades and started almost by accident after artist Marc Chagall sought his help, has died. He was 97. Taylor, a longtime resident of West Hollywood, died of natural causes...

Yale Crash Victim's Play Opens As Family Marks First Anniversary Of Her Death

2013-05-24 17:18:13

On the night before the first anniversary of the death of Marina Keegan, the 22-year-old writer who was killed in a car crash on Cape Cod days after graduating magna cum laude from Yale, her play "Utility Monster" will have its world premiere at the...

Our Laguna: Playhouse fundraiser a California dream

2012-11-23 09:43:52

More than $100,000 was raised at the Laguna Playhouse California Dreamin' fundraiser held Nov. 16 at Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa in Dana Point. Founded in 1920, the Playhouse may be one of the oldest continuously operating theaters on the West...

And now for a digression on theory. In the new millennium everyone seems to be an auteurist, lionizing directors who have recognizable trademarks, down-playing the importance of a script or cast to a finished film.

2010-10-14 05:42:28