Film

LOS ANGELES -- The federal obscenity prosecution of Los Angeles fetish film producer and distributor Ira Isaacs ended in a mistrial Tuesday after jurors deadlocked on charges that the filmmaker produced, sold and transported obscene material.

The panel deliberated for about a day after watching four films created or distributed by Isaacs, whose Internet-based business specialized in a niche of the pornography industry that included scatology and bestiality. The films, two of which Isaacs directed and appeared in, made up the bulk of the three-day trial last week.

OGDEN — If you’re wondering where this week’s blizzard came from, blame Central Casting. The storm arrived just in time to turn Ogden’s Historic 25th Street into a winter wonder-land for the Saturday shoot of an ABC Family Christmas movie.

LOS ANGELES — Ian Abercrombie, 77, the British character actor who played Elaine’s demanding boss, Mr. Pitt, on “Seinfeld,” died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his friend Cathy Lind Hayes. He suffered complications of kidney failure and recently had been diagnosed with lymphoma.

OGDEN -- Sundance Film Festival enthusiasts lined up outside Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Saturday to receive ticket-purchase appointment cards.

The cold didn't faze them, though Steven and Terri Ballard rested while waiting in line.

IMMACULATA, Pa. -- Here's a sports fairy tale that never gets old: Underdog team with few resources but a lot of heart beats the odds and comes out on top.

That is what actually happened to the 1971-72 women's basketball squad at tiny Immaculata College.