Ruth Gordon

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...

West Hollywood hotel: Charlie Chaplin Tramp stayed here

2010-11-19 16:29:00

Entering the Charlie Chaplin cottage, I stooped to avoid hitting my head. At 5 feet 8, I'm about 3 inches taller than Chaplin. (It's said the Little Tramp had the door made small so his guests would have to bow as they entered.) I was at the Charlie,...

Wednesday's TV Highlights: The boys want to save the dolphins and whales on 'South Park'

2009-10-28 04:34:31

Theater review: 'Three Tall Women' at El Centro Theatre

2009-11-19 21:32:36

Movie Star Mystery Photo

2009-12-07 16:32:43

Critic's Notebook: Betty White goes not gently into that 'Saturday Night Live' [Updated]

2010-05-09 16:35:07

Gold Derby nuggets: TCM tribute to Lena Horne | 'Fences' ropes them in | Cherry Jones back to Broadway after '24'

2010-05-10 16:33:18

Emmy Lead Actress Categories Have Unusual History

2013-06-06 14:30:04

You'd think the past can't surprise you, but traveling through the past 40 years of lead actress Emmys yields one "Did this really happen?" moment after another. It can't be only me, for example, taken aback that NBC's The Golden Girls won three...

Williamsburg Virginia Master Naturalists graduate

2011-10-12 02:00:00

The Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists has some good news to report! We have a new class of twenty-five talented and enthusiastic trainees who have begun their basic training program.� Already as they receive top-notch...

No Strings Attached

2011-07-22 00:00:00

Director Will Gluck gave us a teen comedy that made it on my Top 10 list last year. That was Easy A. Now he gives us the second movie this year that deals with a male/female friendship that adds casual sex, without all that pesky hassle of being in a...

Ruth G. Sites

2011-07-20 15:49:00

JUNE 8, 1913-JULY 19, 2011 Ruth Gordon Hollis Mesner Sites died July 19, 2011, at the Village of Robinwood, Hagerstown, Md. Born June 8, 1913, in Martinsburg, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Gilbert T. and Jane E. Gordon Hollis. She was a...

Roman Polanski's terrifying horror film has Mia Farrow pregnant with the devil's kid, and Oscar-winner Ruth Gordon as an insane Satanist.

2011-11-17 12:12:55

Creepy neighbor Constance, who knows more than she's letting on and is ridiculously nosy, reminds us quite a bit of nosy neighbor Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon) from the 1968 "Rosemary's Baby."

2011-10-18 07:27:38

. Gordon and Kanin received an Oscar nomination for their screenplay, which featured such witty, sophisticated lines as Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.

2008-05-27 15:03:29