Harris Yulin

Violence is the trigger in "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance's latest love letter to bad breaks. But it's the ripple effect of responsibility, regret, limited resources and guilt that makes "Pines" particularly relevant in a time when so many...

Actress Kristen Stewart's new view home is not far from "Twilight" costar and on-again boyfriend Robert Pattinson's place in Los Feliz. Set in gated Laughlin Park, the 3,361-square-foot house Stewart bought for $2.195 million features a carved wood front...

Actor Harris Yulin has sold a cottage in Venice for $2.7 million. The one-story house, built in 1922, has one bedroom and one bathroom in 784 square feet of living space. Surrounded by mature trees, it sits on a 7,191-square-foot double lot on a walk...

John Barth surely ranks among the least screen-adaptable modern (or, perhaps, postmodern) American novelists. His stories are about themselves; the words, their own subject. It's not surprising that only one of his books has made it to the big screen....

"Chelsea Walls" is a beautiful, poetic film that captures the aspirations and struggles of a group of creative residents of Manhattan's landmark Chelsea Hotel, legendary home to artists and writers for whom it was built, a haven for such giants as Mark...

Wednesday July 17, 1996      When Walt Whitman wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes," he didn't realize he was also pitching the concept for "Multiplicity."      And when Doug Kinney, harried and harassed by the demands of being a husband, father...

Friday October 25, 1996      Stars are the spoiled children of the movie business. We vote for them for president, give them Academy Awards for directing, applaud their every mood and move. Our reward, as far as Al Pacino is concerned, is films like...

Friday November 7, 1997      Have you met Mr. Bean? Quiet fellow, almost mute, very British in his tweedy appearance, but chronically discombobulated in his manner. He's a man who will get his shirt caught in his zipper just before he's to meet a...

Wednesday April 12, 1995       Al Franken is good enough, he's certainly smart enough. So, doggone it, why is "Stuart Saves His Family" so mediocre?      On "Saturday Night Live," Franken's Stuart Smalley is a hilarious concoction: a "caring nurturer"...

"American Outlaws" begins in the thick of a Civil War skirmish, as a large contingent of Union soldiers opens fire on a group of young men, who, in an astonishing display of bravura and daring, trounce their adversaries like David defeating Goliath. This...

Friday February 2, 2001      In 1914 brothers Dwight and George Hart built the 264-room Rosslyn Hotel at the southwest corner of 5th and Main streets in downtown L.A., and it proved so successful that in 1923 they built a 422-room annex at the...

The Duke of Wellington has a lot to answer for. Ever since the man who conquered Napoleon insisted that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," there's been no end of books -- and later films -- dealing with the doings of men...