Don Ameche

It's one of Hollywood's grandest success stories: The boy who was Opie Taylor became a top director. He learned the lessons of Mayberry well. And so the documentary Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film carries a nostalgic kick. Now 54, Howard looks back at his...

It's one of Hollywood's grandest success stories: The boy who was Opie Taylor became a top director. He learned the lessons of Mayberry well. And so the documentary Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film carries a nostalgic kick. Now 54, Howard looks back at his...

Universal Pictures is looking to remake the 1939 comedy "Midnight" as a starring and production vehicle for Reese Witherspoon. "Little Miss Sunshine" Oscar winner Michael Arndt will write the adaptation for producers Stuber/Parent and for Witherspoon's...

1-1/2 stars (out of 4) How bad can a movie swashbuckler get? "The Musketeer" is the latest film version of Alexandre Dumas' 19th Century adventure classic "The Three Musketeers" -- and also one of the least of them. Even worse than the last filmed "3M"...

Were it not for a modest 28-year-old draftsman-inventor, Alexander Graham Bell might not have gone down in history as the inventor of the telephone. And Thomas Alva Edison might have accumulated a lot fewer than his 1,093 patents. Bell's telephone...

1. "His Girl Friday" (Howard Hawks; 1940) 4 stars Ex-Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" may be the greatest of all newspaper plays, but none of the other movie versions matches this snazzy remake. In a pip of a sex...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Harrison Ford as John Book in WITNESS An Edward S. Feldman Production; Paramount James Garner as Murphy Jones in MURPHY'S ROMANCE Fogwood Films Production; Columbia William Hurt as Luis Molina in...

Billed as "the unholy union of professional theater and organized crime," Tom Dulack's pseudo-farce, "Breaking Legs," is just a holy shame. As if the world needs more skewed images of Italian-Americans, Stage Right Dinner Theatre in Wood Dale inexplicably...

From The Times: Tuesday, March 25, 1986 In an evening marked by top honors to veteran troupers Don Ameche and Geraldine Page but none for Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," the 58th annual Academy Awards show was dominated Monday by seven Oscars...

From The Times: Tuesday, March 25, 1986 The big loser was Moammar Kadafi as the United States bombed Libya on Monday, nearly overshadowing the 58th annual Academy Awards on ABC. Just kidding. Actually, it would have taken a lot less firepower to...

From The Times: Tuesday, March 25, 1986 The final score: "Out of Africa," 7, "The Color Purple," 0. What started last Christmas as a two-horse race to the Oscars turned into a runaway for Sydney Pollack's $32-million movie adapting Danish author Isak...