Bob Gunton

Would the story of the Goodspeed Opera House make a good musical? The thought occurred to me while I was interviewing Michael Price, who's been with the Victorian theater on the Connecticut River in East Haddam for 46 of its 50 years. During lunch at...

The current Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical, "Follies," will come to the Ahmanson Theatre in May. It fills a gap in the Ahmanson season created when a planned revival of "Funny Girl" fell through....

Friday February 9, 1996      Though it stars John Travolta and Christian Slater, "Broken Arrow" is a John Woo movie from start to finish, which means there are lots of things no one should waste time expecting.      Woo is one of the world's...

Monday October 7, 1996      The origin of the title code name for Steven Seagal's Jack Cole in "The Glimmer Man" refers to his stealth as a CIA agent in the jungles of Who Knows Where. His victims, we're told, were lucky to get a glimmer of him before he...

Friday December 25, 1998      The moment of truth in Tom Shadyac's "Patch Adams," the moment that will test audience willingness to suspend disbelief, comes at about the midpoint of the movie when a man writhing in agony with pancreatic cancer is made to...

Friday October 22, 1999      "Bats" is an ecological disaster movie so formulaic that there's scarcely an ounce of life in it. A wildlife zoologist (Dina Meyer), her assistant (Leon) and local sheriff (Lou Diamond Phillips) wind up single-handedly having...

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...