May 25, 2010 – Cinecitta’ Luce, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles will be welcoming Turkish-born Italianate director Ferzan Ozpetek to Los Angeles for a weeklong retrospective of his films (June 4-12).  

 

 

Dennis Hopper, whose groundbreaking 1969 picture "Easy Rider" came to define the youth counter-culture during the Vietnam era, died Saturday of prostate cancer.

 

May 10, 2010–Singer and the first black actress to play lead roles in Hollywood pictures of the 1940s, Lena Horne has died. She was 92. I have met and interviewed Lena Horne a number of times when I conducted research for my biography of Vincente Minnelli (published in 2009).