Rosemary's Baby (movie)

Max von Sydow, from Jesus to the evil brewmeister

2013-04-25 07:00:00

Max von Sydow's mesmerizing performance in Ingmar Bergman's seminal 1957 drama "The Seventh Seal," as a 14th century knight who challenges Death to a game of chess, catapulted the tall, imposing Swedish actor onto the international scene. As part of...

Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president

2013-03-27 22:00:00

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...

Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby,' Lugosi's 'White Zombie': scary stuff

2013-02-14 18:32:00

Horror films do not thrill me, but more elegant efforts sometimes offer an irresistible chill. Such is the case with two films decades apart in time but similarly atmospheric. The older of the two is 1932's "White Zombie," an early stab at zombie-themed...

PASSINGS: James E. Burke, Barbara Ann Scott, Stephen Frankfurt

2012-10-02 00:00:00

James E. Burke Johnson & Johnson CEO during Tylenol poisoning James E. Burke, the former Johnson & Johnson chief executive whose leadership during the Tylenol poisoning scare of the 1980s became a model for corporate crisis management, died Friday in...

Vidal Sassoon dies at 84; hair stylist revolutionized the field

2012-05-10 00:00:00

With one high-profile haircut on the Paramount Studios lot, Vidal Sassoon vaulted to fame in Hollywood. Flown in from London, he trimmed the tresses of Mia Farrow for her role in the film "Rosemary's Baby" — a $30 haircut that he calculated cost...

On Theater: A nasty secret in this 'Garden'

2013-01-29 10:41:00

As a novelist and playwright, Ira Levin refused to be categorized or pigeonholed. He could produce such rollicking comedies as "Critic's Choice" and "No Time for Sergeants" or delve into more chilling fare like "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Boys from Brazil."...

On Theater: With a tip of the 'Hat,' the year begins

2013-01-10 17:39:00

The new year is upon us, and three local theater companies will be getting it off to a rousing start this weekend. South Coast Repertory is opening a play with the unprintable title of "The [Expletive] With the Hat." It's described as a comedy about the...

Advice for approaching DVD kiosk

2012-12-20 14:54:00

As a relatively broke college student, Chicago-based writer Rob Christopher didn't have the cash to rent movies from a video store. Instead, he sought out his local library and discovered not only a repository of films vast enough to satisfy his tastes...

Polish jazz blossoms at the Chopin Theatre

2012-11-13 09:06:00

Jazz took root in Poland long ago – even before World War II – and the country has prized it ever since. If the music lived underground in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union considered it "decadent," Polish listeners – and their...

From page to small screen

2012-09-14 12:53:00

Some of the biggest blockbuster movies in the last 10 years are based on books. (That means you, Harry Potter and “The Hunger Games”). But the annual television lineup has always included its share of book adaptations as well, dating back to...

Komeda's score repeats the lullaby throughout the film until it reaches its horrifying climax and is reprised in an orchestral version over the end credits.

2012-10-24 13:12:00