NEW YORK — Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit Star Wars, has died. He was 84. Ladd died Wednesday, his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, ...

There’s an upscale Los Angeles restaurant whose identity we must keep secret, on pain of incurring the wrath of Mel Brooks. (It’s good to be the King.) Every Friday, a group assembles there for lunch.

Alan Ladd Jr. and Jay Kanter have settled their remaining litigation against Warner Bros. over the studio allegedly keeping them out of profits from movies sold in packages for TV. Terms of the ...