Trilogy

'Red Riding' trilogy MPAA rating: Unrated Running time: 5 hours, 5 minutes Playing: At the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles

For Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, making "Strutter" was like going back decades to when they were UCLA film students and guerrilla tactics were essential survival skills. One day on their new micro-budget production, Anders stood in the street to prevent traffic from interfering with a scene being shot outside a Los Angeles record store. Anders has directed dozens of films and TV episodes over the last 25 years, and even with a small budget, someone else is usually filling that particular role on the asphalt.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker said it agreed to pay plaintiffs $1.6 million in cash and 4.5 million of its common shares to settle a class-action suit filed in federal court Dec. 20. The suit, filed by shareholders, alleged violations of state and federal securities laws in the sale of Trilogy common stock between Nov. 9, 1983, and Aug. 14, 1984.

Love is a disease and scientists have perfected a cure: a brain procedure that rids humans of emotion. Lena Haloway, nearly 18, can't wait to be cured in "Delirium," the first book in Lauren Oliver's dystopian trilogy. She looks forward to a peaceful, pain-free adulthood, when her career, husband and number of children will be chosen for her by the government. The trilogy begins as a page-turning parable about choosing to embrace the terrifying world of being an adult. The contrast between being safe from pain and embracing the difficult but rewarding world of adult experience - love, fear, hate, sadness, joy - is one that Oliver continues to explore in the second two books of the series, "Pandemonium," released last year, and the newly published final volume, "Requiem.

At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, fans of Krzysztof Kieslowski found their hearts lifted. And then broken. The Polish master was on the Riviera with the magnificent "Red," the final panel in his "Three Colors" triptych and a film widely expected to receive the Palme d'Or, even by Quentin Tarantino, whose "Pulp Fiction" took the honors instead. But for devotees it wasn't the disappointment of laurels denied that was hard to bear; it was Kieslowski's announcement that he was retiring from filmmaking.

With states of agitated emotions, accompanied by the grit of unwavering determination, Francisco Martinez's work "Trilogy," which premiered Saturday at Cal State Northridge's Performing Arts Center, might also be a metaphor for this locally based teacher-choreographer: Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre, now in its 15th year, continues to present inspired work, despite small audiences and the financial challenges inherent in today's dance companies.

Home Box Office is having admirable success reviving the omnibus TV series, most notably with its popular horror anthology show "Trilogy of Terror." This weekend, the cable network presents a trilogy of terror of a distinctly different sort with the triple-headed premiere of "Women & Men: Stories of Seduction," which in fact offers stories less about seduction than about subsequent romantic withdrawal, paranoia and betrayal. Now that's scary.

Under terms of the agreement, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company would issue about 38 million shares of common stock to holders of ELXSI, a privately owned company that develops and makes large computer systems for the engineering and scientific market sectors. As a result, ELXSI holders would own just under one-half of the combined companies. A Trilogy spokesman said the merged company would probably be called Trilogy, with ELXSI operating as a subsidiary.

Unless you thought of visiting the Warehouse for the first time in 15 years, or thought the Apache Club West was still happening or you have a hobby of driving around light industrial zones looking for places to eat, you probably won't come across Trilogy, a new restaurant in an old club space right off Olympic Boulevard on Stoner Avenue in West Los Angeles. You'll recognize it by a well-lit logo painted on an outside wall: three buff, naked angels behind a strategically placed banner.

In 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and sent to Auschwitz. And then to Buchenwald. Surviving the camps and returning to Budapest, he was asked, simply, by his surviving family and friends, "Where have you been?" In his work, Kertész reflects on how quickly he discovered that no one really wanted to know what he had experienced. And yet, Kertész's entire literary life has been an attempt at answering that simple question in the trilogy of novels, "Fatelessness," "Fiasco" and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child" — an attempt that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

Warner Bros.' New Line division may be let down over the underwhelming opening of its big-budget "Jack the Giant Slayer," but the company has something to celebrate: "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" crossed the $1-billion milestone Sunday. The first in Peter Jackson's 3-D film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 kids novel is  the 15th film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide at the  box office. The filmmaker's "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" is also a member of the club, as the 2003 release ended up with a staggering worldwide tally of $1.1 billion.

Actor Christopher Lloyd, known to moviegoers as quirky scientist Dr. Emmett Brown in the "Back to the Future" sci-fi trilogy, has sold his house in Montecito for $5.1 million. Lloyd built the Umbria-inspired home after the house he had on the 5-acre site was destroyed in a 2008 wildfire. The single-level house, which has ocean and mountain views, features a double-island kitchen, four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and 4,600 square feet of living space. There is a swimming pool, a spa, gardens, fountains, an expansive lawn and a boccie ball court.

Although the first installment of Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel "The Hobbit" carries the subtitle "An Unexpected Journey," it wasn't entirely unexpected that the director would revisit Middle-earth after the worldwide success of his "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. This time around, however, Jackson may have gotten off on the wrong foot. Early reviews of "The Hobbit" were lukewarm on the padded story and the new high-frame-rate technology being used to project the film in some theaters, and many top critics are now chiming in with similar opinions.

From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around. " Likewise, it would have been better all around if Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films had not come before his new, three-part version of "The Hobbit. " It's not just that the 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien novel, which he began as a simple bedtime story for his children, was written first and covers events that precede the considerably more complex "Rings" story.

Reached A Novel Ally Condie Dutton: 384 pp., $17.99, ages 12 and older Just two years ago, former English teacher Ally Condie released "Matched," a wildly successful young adult crossover novel that landed on general fiction top 10 lists. Taking a bit from Orwell's "1984" and some more from Lois Lowry's "The Giver," Condie crafted a story about a smart teen girl who trusts her government and its system of selecting mates for its citizens - until she falls in love with the wrong boy. Cool and sophisticated where "The Hunger Games" was red hot and bloodthirsty, "Matched" convinced many that the YA genre was an intelligent force to be reckoned with in the general fiction world.

In the battle for falsetto-heavy lust-cyborg supremacy on the Billboard charts this week, we have may have an unexpected victor. No, we're not talking about One Direction, whose second studio album, "Take Me Home," is a lock to claim the top spot this week. The gloomy R&B project The Weeknd, helmed by singer Abel Tesfaye, appears to be a sleeper pick for the No. 2 slot with "Trilogy. " The album, a physical compilation of the group's three free mixtapes from 2011 and some bonus material, is expected to move around 100,000 units in its first week for XO/Republic.

Actor Christopher Lloyd, known to moviegoers as quirky scientist Dr. Emmett Brown in the "Back to the Future" sci-fi trilogy, has sold his house in Montecito for $5.1 million. Lloyd built the Umbria-inspired home after the house he had on the 5-acre site was destroyed in a 2008 wildfire. The single-level house, which has ocean and mountain views, features a double-island kitchen, four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and 4,600 square feet of living space. There is a swimming pool, a spa, gardens, fountains, an expansive lawn and a boccie ball court.

The women in the Garcia family have great voices, major brains, and good looks. Their only problem? They just can't lie. To husbands, priests, or to each other. That cursed gift brings plenty of trouble in Evelina Fernández's “Faith: Part I of A Mexican Trilogy,” now at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. The final installment of this bittersweet immigrant epic with music takes us back to World War II, when Rosie the Riveter wasn't the only one discovering her power tools. After fleeing Zapata's socialist revolution in the 'teens, Esperanza (Lucy Rodriguez)

It's not often that someone accepts one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world by comparing it to a bus. "You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize, and two come along at once," Hilary Mantel joked after taking the stage in London on Tuesday night to accept the 2012 Man Booker Prize for "Bring Up the Bodies," the second novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Mantel also won the Booker for the first book in the series, "Wolf Hall," in 2009. She is the first woman to be a two-time winner of the prize, Britain's most prestigious award for literary fiction.