Yul Brynner

Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors

2012-06-03 00:00:00

Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...

Bob Welch dies at 66; Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer

2012-06-08 00:00:00

Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66. According to a spokesman for the Nashville...

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Park La Brea, 70-year-old design still feels the love (and hate)

2012-02-24 16:34:04

16 Elizabeth Taylor books, scandals included

2011-03-23 16:35:05

Saturday's Highlights 'Jon Lovitz Presents' on Showtime

2011-04-22 21:36:30

An epic restoration effort

2010-10-13 00:00:00

There will be a lot of history on display Monday night when the American Cinematheque presents Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments" starring Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as the power-mad pharaoh, Rameses — and not just...

Sidney Lumet dies at 86; prolific 'actor's director' steered clear of Hollywood

2011-04-10 00:00:00

Sidney Lumet, the prolific four-time Oscar-nominated director known for guiding strong performances in classic films such as "12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network," died Saturday. He was 86. Lumet, whose film career spanned more than 50 years,...

PASSINGS: Arthur Bernard Lewis, Eugene S. Goodwin

2010-11-06 00:00:00

ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Writer, editor and producer on 'Dallas' Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, a veteran TV writer who wrote 69 episodes of "Dallas" and also served as executive story editor and supervising producer for the long-running CBS prime-time soap...

Book review: 'Sal Mineo: A Biography' by Michael Gregg Michaud

2010-12-12 00:00:00

Sal Mineo A Biography Michael Gregg Michaud Harmony: 410 pp., $25.99 Near the climax of "Rebel Without a Cause," three angst-filled adolescents played by James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo take refuge in an abandoned mansion. As Dean reclines on...

Matt Weinstock, Oct. 9, 1959

2009-10-09 16:32:45

Abigail Breslin takes on Oscar-winning role in Broadway revival of 'The Miracle Worker'

2009-10-28 16:33:09

Actor Yul Brynner demonstrates his fast draw prowess for Israeli actress Daliah Lavi on the set of "Catlow," being filmed in Almeria, Spain, on May 21, 1971.

2012-11-21 18:34:00

The star of "The King and I," "Westworld" and other hits died of lung cancer in 1985. He was 65.

2012-09-05 09:07:48

Director, writer, actor and producer Orson Welles died on October 10, 1985, the same day as actor Yul Brynner .

2009-06-26 19:05:31