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'Joe Turner's' actors share August Wilson's gift of gab

2013-05-05 05:30:00

Among the pleasures of seeing an August Wilson play, it's often said, is just listening to the people talk. As Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty has noted, Wilson stocks his scripts with "natural raconteurs" and lets them soar in...

Review: Pleasing '42' has Jackie Robinson's number

2013-04-11 17:29:00

"God built me to last," Jackie Robinson says at one point in "42," and, thankfully, his remarkable story is built the same way. It would have to be to survive the full-dress Hollywood biopic treatment it gets in this film, which is unabashedly subtitled...

Classic Hollywood: Vin Scully makes the call on baseball films

2013-04-08 05:00:00

Over the decades, films about legendary baseball players have sometimes knocked it out of the park (1942's "The Pride of the Yankees" about Lou Gehrig) or struck out (1948's "The Babe Ruth Story.") The latest baseball biopic to step up to the plate is...

Elvis lives! Don Coscarelli on ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ re-release, sequel

2013-01-19 17:52:49

Deborah Raffin dies at 59; actress was also a force in audio books

2012-11-21 19:34:00

Deborah Raffin, a film actress, veteran of television miniseries and entrepreneur whose company, Dove Books-on-Tape, became a major force in the audio book industry, died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 59. She...

Stephen King on TV, from 'Salem's Lot' to 'Bag of Bones'

2011-12-09 16:35:40

From the Vaults: 'Cat People' (1982)

2010-10-15 04:32:46

TV This Week: Nov. 7 -13

2010-11-05 16:34:52

Betty and Coretta premieres Feb. 2 on Lifetime

2013-01-25 16:33:02

A Classical Voice For Hartford Stage's 'Breath & Imagination'

2013-01-03 10:30:00

Jubilant Sykes has sung classical and spiritual music at the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre and the Hollywood Bowl. But Hartford Stage is a decidedly different venue for a veteran of...

Black History Month 2013 TV schedule

2013-01-23 16:33:07

Phylicia Rashad: How She Followed the 'Sun'

2012-10-10 09:33:00

You can't help but feel the maternal touch of Phylicia Rashad. She exudes warmth, calm and centeredness that brings to mind ideal qualities of a mom. Her voice is honeyed and clear, her answers are specific and instructional, and when she says, "Oh,...

At age 23, Patricia Breslin (far left) had already been making movies for four years when she starred as the wife of Harlem Globetrotters' founder Abe Saperstein in the 1954 film "Go, Man, Go!" Besides the Globetrotters themselves, others in the cast included Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee .

2011-09-27 14:23:03

At age 23, Patricia Breslin (far left) had already been making movies for four years when she starred as the wife of Harlem Globetrotters Abe Saperstein in the 1954 film "Go, Man, Go!" Besides the Globetrotters themselves, others in the cast included Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee .

2011-09-27 12:20:30