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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Power couple sues private patrol service

California | Local | By Richard Winton | August 30, 2007
Private home security services have become a staple in L.A. neighborhoods both wealthy and modest. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

No bruising for ‘Cruising’

Entertainment | By Paul Wilner | August 29, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO – In many ways it was a typical night at the Castro Theatre, the venerable 85-year-old revival house in the heart of San Francisco’s gay and lesbian district. Read more
 

Friday, May 25, 2007

It’s all a state of mind

Entertainment | By Rachel Abramowitz | May 25, 2007
IN “Bug,” paranoia is a bug. Read more
 

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Old man and the scene

Entertainment | By Kenneth Turan | May 28, 2006
YOUNG and edgy?” Read more
 

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Friedkin to direct Bavarian Opera

Entertainment | By Diane Haithman | April 8, 2006
Kent Nagano, who is leaving his post as music director of Los Angeles Opera to become music director of both the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Montreal Symphony, is not the only L.A. Opera veteran headed for Munich. Read more
 

Saturday, April 2, 2005

South Coast bill includes Friedkin

Entertainment | April 2, 2005
William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning movie director and also director of the L.A. Opera’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” last year, will stage Tracy Letts’ “The Man From Nebraska,” a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist, at South Coast Repertory’s Argyros Stage next season. Read more
 

Sunday, September 5, 2004

A Hollywood treatment

Entertainment | By Donna Perlmutter | September 5, 2004
It was right in this room,” William Friedkin says, easing himself into a wing chair and waving an arm about the elegantly comfy wood-paneled study in his brick Tudor Bel-Air manse. Read more
 

Friday, October 3, 2003

Marshall, Friedkin and L.A. Opera

Entertainment | By Chris Pasles | October 3, 2003
Los Angeles Opera confirmed Thursday that Hollywood film directors William Friedkin and Garry Marshall have been tapped to direct upcoming productions. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Friedkin said to be L.A. bound

Entertainment | By Chris Pasles | September 30, 2003
Hollywood directors, it seems, just can’t wait for institutional approval. Read more
 

Thursday, October 15, 1998

An ‘Exorcist’ for All Time

Entertainment | By Ernesto Lechner | October 15, 1998
Twenty-five years after it shocked audiences worldwide with the harrowing story of a little girl possessed by the devil, “The Exorcist” is still a rarity in the history of horror movies: The film doesn’t lose its power to evoke terror on a visceral level, even after repeated viewings. Read more
 
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