CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 20, 2013 | From Los Angeles Times staff reports
Harry Reems, who starred with Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat" and became a cause celebre in Hollywood after he was convicted on federal obscenity charges related to the movie, has died. He was 65. Reems, who had pancreatic cancer and other ailments, died Tuesday at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital. His death was confirmed by the Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Healthcare System. He arrived on the Miami set of "Deep Throat" as the lighting director but when the man hired to portray the doctor in the film failed to show up, director Gerard Damiano said: "Put on this coat; you're acting," Reems told The Times in 2005.
NATIONAL
March 19, 2013 | By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She brought in police officers to press her case against her law-and-order opponents. She made it personal, evoking the time she had sought a pulse on the wrist of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, shot seconds before, and found her fingers "in a bullet hole.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 19, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Taylor Swift has seemingly revealed that her break-up song "I Knew You Were Trouble" was penned with One Direction crooner Harry Styles in mind. Is anyone surprised? In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times Magazine, Swift was asked if it was difficult to perform the song during the Brit Awards. "Well, it's not hard to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing by the side of the stage watching," she said . PHOTOS: Taylor Swift is never, ever getting back together with...
ENTERTAINMENT
March 15, 2013 | By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology series. Julie Harris has won five Tony Awards and is best known to film fans for her role as James Dean's character's love interest in 1955's "East of Eden. " During the 1950s, she was one of the superstars of live drama anthologies. One of her earliest TV appearances, in the1951 Goodyear Television Playhouse "October Story," screens Saturday afternoon at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 14, 2013 | By Matt Cooper
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 11 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SERIES "Last Man Standing" "Home Improvement's" Richard Karn guest stars in this new episode. 8 p.m. ABC "Touch" Keith David guest stars in this new episode of the Kiefer Sutherland drama. "9 p.m. Fox "Banshee" The crime drama ends its first season.
SPORTS
March 3, 2013
Chicago Cubs (split squad) 4, Angels 2 AT THE PLATE: Josh Hamilton worked a nice at-bat in the fourth, going from an 0-and-2 count to 3-and-2 and stroking the eighth pitch from reliever Carlos Marmol into right field for a single. Brandon Harris, competing for a utility infield spot, tripled to right and scored on a groundout in the sixth. ON THE MOUND: Joe Blanton needed only 20 pitches to zip through two innings in which he gave up a solo homer to Brian Bogusevic and nothing else.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 3, 2013 | By Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times
Calling prescription drug abuse an urgent public health problem, California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is pushing lawmakers to fund an effort to identify physicians who recklessly prescribe addictive medications. Harris said in an interview that she wanted to use a state database of prescriptions, known as CURES, to draw a bead on doctors who abuse their prescribing powers, a controversial step discussed for years but never adopted. CURES, diminished by years of budget cuts, is now used mostly to identify "doctor-shopping" addicts, who feed their habit by obtaining multiple prescriptions from different doctors.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 3, 2013 | By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
There's close to 40 years' worth of symmetry on "Old Yellow Moon," the new album from longtime friends and country-rock trailblazers Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Though it's taken until now for them to make their first full album as duet partners, the singers started out as a couple of unknowns who came together in the vibrant music scene of 1970s Los Angeles. "At one point it was just me and Rodney - two lead singers and two rhythm guitar players - sitting on the floor working up things like 'Sweet Dreams' and all these country songs, waiting for the band to show up," Harris, 65, said recently over lunch in Los Angeles with Crowell.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 28, 2013 | By Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Based on true events, in which a Russian submarine likely went rogue during the Cold War of the late 1960s and nearly set off an international nuclear incident, "Phantom" is a modest thriller propelled by a strong cast and straightforward storytelling. Yet there are a few ground rules. There is a diversity of American accents and diction among the supposedly Russian crew - including actors Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Lance Henriksen, Johnathon Schaech and Kip Pardue - so don't expect any Boris Badenov/Yakov Smirnoff-style speaking.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 28, 2013 | By Richard Winton, John Glionna and Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times
A man suspected in a deadly car-to-car shooting in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip was arrested Thursday at a Studio City apartment complex, bringing an end to a weeklong manhunt. Los Angeles police and FBI agents surrounded the suburban apartment complex in the 4100 block of Arch Drive about noon and ordered Ammar Harris to surrender. Officers said there was a woman inside the apartment where he was holed up; she was not arrested. Harris, 26, is being held on suspicion of murder and is expected to be extradited back to Nevada.