BUSINESS
July 26, 1989 | From Times wire service s
Cable marketing executive David J. Auger will become publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News on Aug. 7, owner Jack Kent Cooke announced. Auger, 33, has been vice president of marketing for Cooke CableVision Inc., also owned by Cooke, for the past year. He was formerly a marketing executive with the cable division of Warner Communications Inc. "David Auger has proven himself as one of the best marketing executives in the communications business," Cooke said. Auger succeeds R.
SPORTS
February 5, 1985
Corona del Mar 73, University 62--Senior center Steve Morris scored 28 points on 11 of 13 shooting (85%) and had 15 rebounds to lead the Sea Kings. Junior forward Jeff Fryer added 16 points for Corona del Mar (7-2, 15-5). Forward Brad Arnold scored 27 points for University (0-9, 3-16). UNIVERSITY (62)--Paulson 4, Arnold 27, Stolzoff 16, Mask 2, Ferrell 3, Mehrtens 4, Drljevic 4, Pitchess 2.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 26, 2011 | Tim Swanson
Twenty years ago this month, a small, hip-hop infused coming-of-age drama set in South-Central Los Angeles called "Boyz N the Hood" was causing extreme reactions from two very different audiences. Written and directed by John Singleton, a brash 23-year-old just months out of USC's film school, and made for a mere $5.7 million, largely with an unknown and untested cast of African American actors, the film had just played May's prestigious Cannes Film Festival where it received a 20-minute standing ovation.
NATIONAL
June 9, 2006 | Michael J. Goodman and William C. Rempel, Times Staff Writers
Without help from a friend, James Mahan might never have become a Las Vegas state judge. Certainly he wouldn't have gotten one of the top judicial jobs in town: a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. Then again, without Mahan, his friend George Swarts would never have gotten to run an Internet porn business, a hotel-casino hair salon or a Southern California software company. Indeed, the careers of Judge James C. Mahan, 62, and his friend George C.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 3, 1988
Don't expect to see Sammy Hagar scheduling a duet with George Michael anytime soon. The Van Halen crooner recently surveyed Michael thusly: "The guy looks like he walked into a beauty parlor and said, 'Make me look rough and tough like I hadn't slept for four days--but I have really.' ". . . Just how short was that Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks title fight? KRTH-FM morning deejay Steve Morris offered the most imaginative illustration of the spectacle's stunning brevity.