Ellis Island

Thursday's TV Highlights: Esther Williams tribute on TCM

2013-06-12 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 9 - 15, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Save Me Betty White guest stars as God in...

James Gray brings a film to Cannes five years after divided reaction

2013-05-24 05:00:00

CANNES, France — For the better part of two decades, director James Gray has been making textured dramas about people, often immigrants and their children, who experience all manner of frustration and struggle. It prepared him well for the...

Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival

2013-04-18 04:29:00

The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...

Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough

2013-04-14 09:00:00

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...

Immigration rally at Capitol as senators race to finish bill

2013-04-10 17:14:00

WASHINGTON--The bipartisan group of senators pushing to finish a sweeping� immigration bill met late Wednesday as thousands of advocates gathered outside the Capitol, many waving American flags, to lend urgency to the effort.� The first draft of the...

Studying the percentages

2013-01-05 00:00:00

I have now become the Ellis Island for bisexuals. I tried to avoid it, but they are drawn to me. Consider my recent experience at the Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip: I go there to hang out with some of the comics and watch the show. It's a very...

L.A.'s walking dead

2013-03-06 18:45:00

Mark the date, remember the day. On March 5, 2013, Los Angeles redefined apathy. A measly 16% of the city's registered voters — or perhaps around 20% once all the mail-in ballots are counted — turned out in an election with the following...

‘Sgt. Rock’ artist Joe Kubert had 70 years on the march

2012-08-14 20:12:48

Review: Romance powers Mark Helprin's 'In Sunlight and in Shadow'

2012-10-06 00:00:00

-------------------- In Sunlight and in Shadow A Novel Mark Helprin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 720 pp., $28 -------------------- It's been 17 years since Mark Helprin's last novel, "Memoir from Antproof Case," and he's lost none of his gift for...

‘Bourne Legacy’ star Jeremy Renner on ‘Avengers’ action and more

2012-08-06 16:42:40

Joe Kubert dies at 85; comics artist created 'Sgt. Rock'

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Joe Kubert was never a superstar comics artist — his work didn't have the necessary bombast or polished edges — but the man who drew ragged, soulful soldiers in "Sgt. Rock," "The Haunted Tank" and "Enemy Ace" did something his characters would...

Cruises: Drinking in the ambience aboard Rotterdam VI

2012-01-22 00:00:00

Rarely has a city been as in love with a shipping company as Rotterdam, Netherlands, is with the Holland America line. So July 3, when the 1997 Rotterdam VI left the Netherlands' second-largest city for New York City, the Dutch turned out in force to...

To be released by the Weinstein Company (date pending). In 1921, a Polish immigrant (Marion Cotillard) lands at New York City's Ellis Island and is promptly separated from her consumptive sister and preyed upon by a slippery theatrical impresario (Joaquin Phoenix) of complex motives.

2013-05-30 14:03:00

The "Scandal" actress spoke at the Democratic National convention, saying "I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of

2012-09-07 11:17:32

The hospital on Ellis Island once housed the largest operation for the U.S. Public Health service. Now the hospital is slowly deteriorating.

2012-06-07 00:00:00