Fatty Arbuckle

Last week Firehouse 12, the intimate, immaculate and architecturally magnificent concert/studio/bar space at 45 Crown Street, announced its Jazz Series line-up for Spring 2013. Firehouse 12 bookings are special. As a recording studio and as a concert...

Hollywood makes movies, of course, but just as important — or maybe more so — it makes stars. But as Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr argues in “Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame,” the manufacture and maintenance of...

Three decades and more than 25 films into his directing career, and Barry Levinson is still mining his hometown for movie ideas. But his latest film, a horror-mystery about a murderous parasite let loose in the Chesapeake Bay, is about as far removed...

“I have had the opportunity to write several new chapters in the evolving Woodbury University history,” said the school’s retiring president, Kenneth Nielsen. “The success the school has achieved (is) a result of the hard work,...

Christina Dunigan heard the rave reviews from movie critics about the silent Buster Keaton film, "The General." She had to see for herself. Three years ago, Dunigan rented the classic movie on Netflix, and instantly became a fan of Keaton in...

Pugnacious, daring British actor Malcolm McDowell, best known for his starring role in "A Clockwork Orange," is not only getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, he is also being feted by the American Cinematheque. Susan King looks at the...

The movie will be based on author David Yallop's biography of Arbuckle, "The Day the Laughter Stopped."...

Bookshelves real and virtual are stocked with volumes about Los Angeles and Southern California written by people who parachute into a Westside guest house for a few weeks, hit the hot spots and high spots, then write with voice-of-God authority for...

For the first half of the 20th century, Charlie Chaplin was the most famous movie comedian in the world thanks to his endearing Tramp character and the masterpieces he wrote and directed, including "The Gold Rush," "City Lights," "Modern Times" and "The...

Oct. 25, 1915: Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle … and Mayor Sebastian? The ad for the costume ball is the earliest reference to the “Keystone Kops” that I can find in The Times. However, a little more digging turned up a......

hile the rest of the news business spends the final days of December looking back at the major events of the year, the Daily Mirror is peering forward, and for us at least, the future is clear: 1961 brings the......

Los Angeles Opera’s cute, clever new production of “The Barber of Seville,” which opened Sunday afternoon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, includes spectacular singing from talented, agile comedians. The costumes are witty. The spirit is light. The...