Ordinary People (movie)

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet. Discuss

2013-01-05 06:00:00

"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...

The Cinematheque celebrates the beauty of film

2013-01-03 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque welcomes 2013 with "Motion Picturesque: Cinema at Its Most Beautiful" festival, which shines the spotlight on the visual splendor of motion pictures. The series opens Thursday at the Egyptian with Fritz Lang's influential...

Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68; award-winning composer of popular music

2012-08-08 00:00:00

When Marvin Hamlisch auditioned for the Juilliard School of Music, he played not Chopin or Mozart but the American folk standard "Goodnight, Irene," a choice that could have had lamentable results for any other prospective student. But Hamlisch quickly...

Screenwriter Alvin Sargent sells Santa Monica home for $11.1 million

2012-07-30 15:28:00

Screenwriter Alvin Sargent has sold the Santa Monica home he shared with his late wife, film producer Laura Ziskin, for $11.1 million. The gated Monterey Colonial, built in 1942, includes four bedrooms and 51/2 bathrooms. A honeycomb onyx fireplace...

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell oceanfront house in Malibu

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu for $7.925 million. Their 2.5-acre estate in Hidden Hills remains on the market at $12.999 million. The three-story beach house features a walled garden, five bedrooms, five bathrooms...

Mary Tyler Moore's taboo-breaking shows seen in new light

2012-01-29 00:00:00

In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just because she recently made her first TV appearance in many moons on pal Betty White's show "Hot in Cleveland" or...

Moving on after 'Spider-Man' successes

2012-04-12 19:08:00

The Santa Monica home of screenwriter Alvin Sargent and his late wife, film producer Laura Ziskin, has come on the market at $11.85 million. Ziskin worked with designer Jane Hallworth in creating the detailed interiors. A back-lit honeycomb onyx...

Book review: 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan

2011-05-15 19:15:00

In Michael Feeney Callan's fawning new biography, we get plenty of the actor, director and environmentalist we already know but only a tantalizing, too-brief glimpse of a young man we almost never hear about: Charles Robert Redford Jr., Angeleno. From...

Bill Varney dies at 77; Oscar-winning sound mixer

2011-04-07 00:00:00

Bill Varney, an Academy Award-winning sound mixer whose final film credit was a "director's edition" of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" that was released on the film's 40th anniversary, has died. He was 77. Varney died Saturday of congestive heart...

Line,' 'Way We Were' Composer Dies At 68

2012-08-07 07:17:00

LOS ANGELES -- Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies including"The Sting" and won a Tony for "A Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles at 68. Family spokesman Jason Lee said Hamlisch died Monday after a brief illness. Other details...

San Diego Pops principal conductor Hamlisch dies

2012-08-07 20:24:00

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Symphony was mourning Tuesday after the sudden passing of its principal pops conductor, 68-year-old Marvin Hamlisch. Hamlisch joined the San Diego Symphony as the principal "Pops" conductor in 2006.� Symphony officials said...

SAG Awards 2012: Mary Tyler Moore gets lifetime achievement honor

2012-01-30 11:58:08

made the transition from handsome leading man to director with this wrenching domestic drama about the troubles of an upper-middle-class family after the death of their oldest son.

2012-01-26 14:36:46

Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch earned nominations and Timothy Hutton took home a trophy for Robert Redford's 1980 Best Picture winner, "Ordinary People." But Sutherland's portrait of a grieving father, so crucial to the film's success, got nothing.

2008-01-30 10:37:25