Susan Hayward

The great jazz musician Bud Shank has died at the age of 82. He had one of the most unlikely backgrounds for any jazz musician, growing up not in the urban welter of cultural ferment or in the musically rich... ... Full Article

There once was a glorious, splendid, self-confident epoch, back in the reign of the blessed Eisenhower, when a director from the West could shoot a film about remote, mysterious Mongolia with minimal authenticity, fearless inaccuracy, and cultural crassness so epic... ... Full Article

In the 1940's as well as the 1950's Hollywood studios were turning out murder and drama mysteries by the dozen. It was the era when these type of movies were very popular with the public and what made the box... ... Full Article

This was the movie that should have taken Jennifer Connelly into the Susan Hayward land of empty bottles, desperation and body odor. She plays a woman with substance-abuse problems who gets thrown out of her bungalow because of a computer ... Full Article

Times Staff Writer All of us big-time gamblers are superstitious. And we knew it was a bad omen when our blackjack instructor called in sick. Well, OK, my wife, Bobbie, and I were not quite big-time gamblers when we hit ... Full Article

The truth shall make you free.Want proof?Just watch The Shawshank Redemption, which continues the tradition of prison films about inmates who awaken spiritually while suffering the indignities of incarceration. ... Full Article