Bottle Shock (movie)

Mike Grgich still going strong at 90

2013-04-17 10:00:00

Mike Grgich's 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay helped turn the wine world on its head by winning the famed Judgment of Paris, in which a panel of predominantly French wine judges did the unthinkable by scoring California wines over their own. It was an...

James L. Barrett dies at 86; pioneering Napa vintner

2013-03-19 00:00:00

James L. Barrett, a pioneering Napa Valley vintner who stepped onto the world stage in a big way in 1976 when his Chateau Montelena Chardonnay won a prestigious Paris tasting, has died. He was 86. Barrett died Thursday in San Francisco, according to...

Scene & Heard: Los Angeles Philharmonic 'Celebración' gala

2010-10-17 00:00:00

The Oct. 7 "Celebraci�n," the Los Angeles Philharmonic opening night gala, attracted 800 guests to what looked like a high-tech supper club on Grand Avenue. Judging from the crowd packing the dance floor, guests could have danced all night — when...

Will Richard Linklater's 'Me and Orson Welles' have a wonderful new life?

2009-09-17 08:54:41

Chris Pine to star in 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' at the Mark Taper Forum

2010-05-19 16:32:51

Chris Pine: This is your captain speaking

2009-06-21 00:00:00

Chris Pine is splayed across a red restaurant banquette as if it were the throne Hollywood is offering him as one of its newly anointed male hotties. To say Pine's actual seating is not a throne would be an understatement. The star of Paramount Pictures'...

Wednesday is the new Friday in movie releases

2008-08-06 00:00:00

PINK is the new black, 50 is the new 40 and, when it comes to summer movies, Wednesday has become the new Friday. Between now and Labor Day, the major studios and several independent distributors will release more than half a dozen new films on a...

Movie 'Bottle Shock' recounts the historic 1976 Paris wine-tasting contest

2008-08-06 00:00:00

"Bottle Shock," a new independent film based, very loosely, on the famous 1976 blind tasting in Paris in which two California wines came out on top, much to the chagrin of the expert -- and very French -- wine tasters, opens today at theaters across the...

It's nervous-making time at Sundance

2008-12-04 00:00:00

Veteran Los Angeles film producer Leslie Urdang stands among the most fortunate independent filmmakers. One of 1,026 submissions, Urdang's low-budget "Adam," an uplifting love story featuring a man with Asperger's syndrome, was announced Wednesday as part...

'OSS 117 Lost in Rio'

2008-09-09 10:38:45

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FetchToto's Top 5 Things To Do In Wichita This Weekend - May 27 - 29

2011-05-24 22:00:00

Top 5 Things To Do In Wichita This Weekend - May 27-29, 2011 Are you looking for something fun to do this Memorial Day weekend and can’t decide where to go? Well don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Whether you’re looking for an...

â€œThe Lost Diary of Don Juanâ€ to become a movie

2010-10-19 16:34:21

, they were greeted with a glass of bubby, handed to them by grants manager Toni Gianforti, and executive director Tom Grazio gave them a warm welcome. Then, it was on to sampling both red and white wines. And who needs popcorn, when there was prosciutto and other antipasti there for the nibbling?

2010-09-27 00:00:00

Chris Pine - Bottle Shock

2009-05-11 13:53:04

reminded us of our fondness for the character actor's chops, particularly in this buried treasure from 1998.

2009-03-15 00:00:00