Jaws (movie)

Santa Catalina's famous past is felt in its charming present

2013-05-05 00:00:00

AVALON — I'm standing at the railing, the late-morning sun warm on my face and hands, when the ship turns slightly and I see it, a rugged jumble of mountains jutting from the sea. We slow and enter the harbor, where a village clings to the...

TV This Week: May 5 - 11: 'Rihanna 777'

2013-05-03 12:13:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SUNDAY Eleven teams entered, but only one team...

Oscars 2013: An 'Argo' night at Academy Awards

2013-02-25 04:00:00

For the second straight year, the movie business fell for itself. "Argo" — in which a Hollywood producer and makeup artist help engineer the rescue of six Americans from Iran — won the top prize at the 85th Academy Awards, one year after the...

Visual effects workers miffed after Oscar speech cut-off

2013-02-25 14:26:00

Workers in California's beleaguered visual effects industry were left fuming Monday after a speech by Oscar-winning supervisor Bill Westenhofer was cut short -- by the ominous music of "Jaws." Westenhofer, who led the team at Rhythm & Hues that won a...

Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane could've learned from Clint Eastwood

2013-02-25 16:15:00

So where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? Sure, he hijacked Mitt Romney's convention with his bizarre soliloquy, a man and his chair. But the moment was spontaneous, surprising and captivating in the can't-turn-away fashion of an impending train...

Film, TV violence is an intensely sensitive subject for some

2013-02-15 12:00:00

Years after she first saw "The Passion of the Christ," Lori Pearson still feels queasy when she recalls the brutally graphic movie about the final hours of Jesus' life. "After I left the theater I remember feeling physically uncomfortable," said...

'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...

PASSINGS: Ron Taylor, Mario Armond Zamparelli, Anne Shaw Price

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Ron Taylor Filmed shark for 'Jaws' Ron Taylor, 78, an Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the dramatic underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller "Jaws," died Sunday at a Sydney hospital after battling leukemia....

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...

Southern California Close-Ups: San Fernando Valley

2012-03-30 16:44:00

First published on April 24, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south...

'The Pact' moves screenwriter further up the Hollywood chain

2012-02-05 17:09:00

"Is this really happening?" Nicholas McCarthy asked as he stepped carefully along an icy sidewalk toward the theater. An evening full of red carpets and party people was fading. It was almost midnight on the first Friday at the Sundance Film Festival....

Hollywood dream of filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy is stop and go

2012-01-20 17:26:00

Nicholas McCarthy found himself in the Santa Monica offices of Content Media, an independent movie company, sensing that his life had reached a crossroads. His 11-minute thriller had just played at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He had...

The Good: The original "Jaws" is a cinematic masterpiece. There really did not need to be any more. The Bad: Both "Jaws II," with the teenagers, and "Jaws III," at the Seaworld knock-off with Dennis Quaid, are bad in a fun way. The Ugly: What is not bad in a fun way is "Jaws IV.

2013-02-14 20:01:00

John Williams had been working in Hollywood for several years, composing scores for a series of breezy comedies such as "How to Steal a Million," "Penelope," and "Fitzwilly" when he began collaborating with director Steven Spielberg.

2012-10-24 12:43:00

Head of production at 20th Century Fox , the Oscar -winning producer of such films as "Jaws" helped usher in the modern blockbuster era. He followed with well-regarded films such as "The Verdict" and "Driving Miss Daisy" and produced six films by director Tim Burton and helped launch the career of

2012-07-14 18:41:00