Manhattan (movie)

Mariel Hemingway urges change to help others find a personal best

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Mariel Hemingway, makeup-free and in sweats, is gorgeous. That bone structure, her cheetah-like build and flowing hair have been familiar for decades. What's disarming is her forthright approach to a rough family history and her determination to live...

Oscars stage manager braces for his final cues to the stars

2013-02-24 07:00:00

He delivered a forgotten harmonica to Stevie Wonder onstage at the Grammy Awards, supplied a shoulder to lean on for a post-hip-surgery Gregory Peck at the Oscars and served as a human Xanax for hundreds of other stars in the most terrifying and...

Best of 2012 Pop Music: Albums

2012-12-27 11:24:00

What follows are the favorite 10 albums of 2012 as chosen by Times pop music staffer Todd Martens: 1.�Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange” (Def Jam). No doubt this is Ocean's moment, what with his Grammy nominations and the romantic topicality of...

Steven Bach dies at 70; United Artists executive, author

2009-03-31 00:00:00

As a studio executive at United Artists, Steven Bach presided over one of the most notorious debacles in movie history -- the making of 1980's "Heaven's Gate" -- an experience he would later write about in what would become a classic in the Hollywood...

A Petra Pan travels boroughs and beyond in 'Frances Ha' ★★★ 1/2

2013-05-23 14:02:00

Often when you're young, and sometimes even when you're older than young, adulthood is something ventured into partway, like a wading pool. The deep end your friends are already inhabiting looks a long way away. "Frances Ha," director and co-writer Noah...

Hart to heart: Burbank's Colony Theatre fights to survive

2013-05-12 00:00:00

The Colony Theatre in Burbank continues its fight for survival due to serious financial shortfalls, but you'd never know it from the venerable mid-sized venue's fine season-ender, "Falling for Make Believe." This world premiere musical by Mark Saltzman,...

Summer movies star zombies, robots, rangers and hangovers in 2013

2013-04-28 03:04:02

To say summer will bring comic-book and sci-fi films is like saying it will contain a July. It's a given -- a thrilling, pyrotechnic-filled, yet reassuring given. Just ask Damon Lindelof, a screenwriter and producer of May's highly anticipated "Star...

Colony Theatre continues to hang in there

2013-04-26 12:42:00

Last Wednesday night, Barbara Beckley got a familiar feeling of relief, as the Colony Theatre's production of "Falling for Make Believe" successfully completed its first preview performance at the 270-seat nonprofit Burbank venue. The usual suspense in...

Fueled by angst, 'Addams Family' 3.0

2011-12-19 15:08:00

NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshall Brickman — who co-wrote "Sleeper," "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" with Woody Allen — is sitting at a table in the back. Rick Elice, who penned the book...

. Keaton has said that Annie is an "idealized version of me" (Hall is Keaton's real last name; she's been called "Annie" as a nickname). The last film Keaton and Allen worked on was 1993's "Manhattan Murder Mystery.

2010-09-21 14:59:20

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Filmography: "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" Update: Nelkin is widely known as the inspiration to Woody Allen's 1979 film "Manhattan" after the two dated when Nelkin was just 17.

2009-08-25 17:02:04