Warren Beatty

Men's fashion is on the kind of creative roll that used to be the norm for women's clothing design.While women's fashion has been incapable in the last two years of getting the momentum for anything resembling a movement, men's fashion is in the creative throes of one.Women's fashion most recently suggested that women of all ages dress like moms, yet men's fashion is throwing off daddy's clothes, stern suits with corporate pretentions and even soft, asexual...

O'Malley suddenly realized he is really going to become mayor and had better prepare, which is all to the good.Surprise! The best weapon against poverty is a full-employment economy.It is comforting to believe that soldiers commit atrocities only in unjust wars, not that there was ever evidence to support such faith.No one appreciated Warren Beatty's comic acting before.Pub Date: 10/04/99

LAS VEGAS -- Warren Beatty has brought stylish gangster Bugsy Siegel back to life in "Bugsy," a movie about the ex-hood's dream of starting "a gambling Garden of Eden in the desert." But even Bugsy would have trouble recognizing the gambling mecca he launched in 1946.For further information on Las Vegas, call (702) 735-3611.

The real-life affair Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe nurtured during the shooting of "Proof of Life" has made headlines. But on-screen romances that turn into real-world couplings are as old as the movie medium itself. Here's a partial list: Loretta Young and Clark Gable, "Call of the Wild" (1935). Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy carried on during and after several films together during the 1940s. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, "To Have and Have Not" (1944). Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, "All the Fine Young Cannibals" (1960)

Like, gag us with a spoon. For its 30th anniversary, Artscape is going all 1980s on us. So we figured that now’s the time to determine once and for all which was the better 10-year period: the ’80s or ’90s. Let the battle begin! FASHION ’80s: Neon; torn sweat shirts and leg warmers; the “Miami Vice” look; shoulder pads; goth ’90s: Grunge; “Blossom” hats; bell-bottom sleeves; cargo shorts/pants; babydoll dresses; that T-shirt-under-a-suit thing Winner : Tough one, but the ’ 80s ekes out a win (mostly thanks to not introducing cargo shorts/pants)

The most popular cultural event of last summer was the Open-Air Italian Film Festival in Little Italy, where Baltimoreans were invited to pull up their lawn chairs each Friday evening at the corner of High and Stiles streets and enjoy Italian or Italian-themed films in cool outdoor comfort. The tradition continues this year with an expanded program. The festival will now stretch into 18 weeks, and Senator Theater owner Tom Kiefaber has done some inspired reconnoitering to find rarely seen classics, such as last Friday's program of early short films by Martin Scorsese.

Paul Kovi, 74, a former owner and director of the Four Seasons restaurant, died Monday of a blood infection in New York. Mr. Kovi began working at the famed Manhattan restaurant in 1966, 16 years after he emigrated from Hungary.Wright Morris, 88, the American Gothic novelist and essayist who wrote about his native Nebraska, died April 25 in Mill Valley, Calif.Gregor von Rezzori, 83, an Austrian whose novels centered on life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died April 23 in Florence, Italy.

David Newman, 66, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter whose films included Bonnie and Clyde and the Superman movies, died in New York City on Thursday, five days after suffering a stroke. Mr. Newman, who began his career as an editor at Esquire magazine, penned screenplays for more than a dozen films, sometimes with his wife, Leslie Newman, other times with Robert Benton, director of Kramer vs. Kramer. Mr. Benton and Mr. Newman first came to prominence when they wrote the screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

VIDEOThe man who built Vegas"Bugsy" is engrossing adult filmmaking, probably Barry Levinson's finest work, and certainly Warren Beatty's. It's a film bio of the man who built Las Vegas, a psychotic gangster gifted with vision. Beatty's Siegel is trying desperately to become something grander than he is -- he's like Jay Gatsby in that regard -- but he can't escape the violence that nestles in his soul. Annette Bening plays Virginia Hill, the showgirl who stole his heart. R. *** 1/2 . "Sneakers" is quite an enjoyable caper movie, as Robert Redford leads a league of specialists in a number of high-tech heists, all of which are great fun. They're on the track of a machine that magically breaks computer codes, which would merely make them the most powerful men in the world.

"Beauty and the Beast" and "JFK" were neck and neck among SUNDIAL readers in balloting for best picture of 1991. "Bugsy," the choice of many film critics, was a distant also-ran in the SUNDIAL sample.The Disney animated film, the first of its kind ever nominated for best picture, led with 124 votes, with "JFK" breathing down its neck with 122. "The Silence of the Lambs" was a close third with 119 votes.But Barry Levinson's gangster movie "Bugsy," starring Warren Beatty, received only 30 votes, and "The Prince of Tides" picked up just 29.In six days of SUNDIAL questions about the Oscars, ''The bTC Silence of the Lambs" fared best.