Новости за 14.12.2017

As the man himself would be the first to tell you, Lefty Brown is not the kind of guy ballads are written about. Folksy and eccentric, prone to talking to himself, this self-abnegating old-timer is the eternal sidekick, the hero's reliable right hand and nothing more.

True-crime aficionados will probably get the most out of “Killing for Love,” a documentary from Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger re-examining the 1985 murders of wealthy Virginians Derek and Nancy Haysom, and the separate prosecutions that put their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend,...

An early sequence in Feng Xiaogang’s elegiac epic “Youth” shows a dance number being rehearsed by a People’s Liberation Army arts troupe in southwestern China.

Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90 — breaking the record for the star with the most exoplanets and, for the first time, tying with our own.

Devastating events befall the Raineys, the family at the center of photographer Jonathan Olshefski’s low-key but radiant filmmaking debut. And yet the lasting impression that “Quest” makes is not one of despair or ruin. Through eight years of filming — years that stretch from Barack Obama’s first...

The federal Department of Education is refusing to process debt relief claims from tens of thousands of students who had federal loans to attend Corinthian Colleges schools, California's attorney general said Thursday in the latest lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Mike Tolbert is moving on from his digs in San Diego.

The NFL fullback’s Mediterranean-style home in the Scripps Ranch area sold this month for $1.78 million. Tolbert, who played for the Chargers from 2008-2011, bought the home in 2015 for $2.22 million, records show.

The half-acre property includes...

Better screen representation for older actors starts with not making movies like “The Leisure Seeker,” a soggy East Coast road trip saga in which Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland valiantly pretend that rogue treatment of debilitating illnesses has its funny/endearing side.

Eric Hildebrandt first raised the red flag in an annual report written in 2015 for his bosses overseeing California’s electricity market.

To the editor: President Trump has had a year to grow into his position as the nation’s chief executive. Rather than use that opportunity to behave as a leader, he has instead given rein to his worst impulses and made the poorest possible choices. (“Trump slams Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a critic,...

Here's a look at Walt Disney Co. deals through the years.

H.P. Lovecraft meets the Three Stooges (by way of “Men in Black”) courtesy of “The Thousand Faces of Dunjia,” an insanely over-the-top live-action cartoon of a sci-fi-fantasy martial arts adventure.

Note: A version of this review previously appeared in the Calendar section on March 2, 1998.

Mikey Garcia is expected in Los Angeles Monday for a session with reporters, where he’ll be asked to explain why he’s chosen to fight mostly anonymous Sergey Lipinets in his next bout.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's largest generic drug maker, on Thursday said it would lay off over a quarter of its workforce as part of a global restructuring meant to salvage its ailing business.

Among all the USC football players who received awards at the team’s banquet on Wednesday night, kicker Chase McGrath and punter Reid Budrovich might have been the biggest winners.

Rupert Murdoch has labored more than 60 years to build a global media colossus, which explains why he seems perturbed by a perception that his ambition is diminishing as he dramatically downsizes his company.

To the editor: For all of the implications of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory in Tuesday’s Alabama Senate election that have been analyzed, there is one more message that President Trump must hear. (“The Alabama Senate loss just made Trump’s job a lot harder,” Dec. 13)

Animating the most adorable creatures — puppies, kittens, bunnies, etc. — usually results in an even cuter cartoon creation. However, “Hedgehogs’” first sin of many is the disservice it does to its titular animals. In this animated movie, the normally Instagram-worthy darlings are reduced to bland...

Age may be just a number, but Los Angeles soccer fans will have a chance to see a rising Uruguayan star play in a new stadium for a new team.

Major League Baseball plans to investigate whether a rival team official leaked the private medical information of new Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani, a source confirmed.