NEW YORK — “I am the stupidest person here,” Cole Escola said in a speech last month. “And I mean that as an insult to all of you.”
They had just won a special Drama Desk Award for “Oh, Mary!,” their off-Broadway play that was extended twice before it was cleared for a Broadway run. The show also earned them the almost-serious “Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting” from the hosts of the “Las Culturistas” podcast and the actually serious Outer Critics Circle Award for best lead actor in an off-Broadway play. Read More...
In “The Iron Claw,” four Texas brothers become wrestling superstars. Then, after a run of accidents and personal tragedies, all but one of them die before the age of 35.
The new biopic, released Friday and directed by Sean Durkin, dramatizes the true story of the Von Erich wrestling family, a multigenerational group of athletes that captured international attention for its success in the ring and its struggles outside it. The family’s many misfortunes over the years led to rumors of a curse linked to the last name the brothers’ father adopted for his wrestling persona. Read More...
A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday, April 30, and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in prison for his part in the ambush killing of a man stabbed to death near Trabuco Creek in San Juan Capistrano nearly five years ago.
Ryan Timothy Huebner of Laguna Niguel pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter as well as a felony residential burglary charge from an unrelated case. As part of the plea bargain, a murder charge with a special-circumstances allegation of lying in wait was dropped. Read More...