Sports
Jim Otto, who never missed a game in 15 seasons with the Raiders, has died. Otto once said he had 74 surgeries and more than 20 concussions.
USC Sports
USC walk-on India Otto, a favorite among USC fans and players, put a joyful exclamation point on USC’s NCAA tournament win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
Movies
The sincere new dramedy starring Tom Hanks as a widower at the end of his rope reveals just what is missing from so many recent Hollywood studio productions.
Awards
In the Mexican actor’s first big American picture, ‘A Man Called Otto,’ she more than holds her own with Tom Hanks. She steals the show.
World & Nation
The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died after being detained for 17 months in North Korea, on Friday directly blamed leader Kim Jong Un for their son’s death a day after President Trump said he believed Kim’s account that he was not responsible.
President Trump said Thursday he takes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word” that Kim was unaware of mistreatment of an American college student who died after being imprisoned there.
Screenwriter David Magee saw the heartache behind the widower in the story, and his need to find something to live for.
Otto Warmbier died on June 19, 2017, in his hometown Wyoming, Ohio, a few days after his return from North Korea.
The film is a comedy, but its deeper themes are what drove the actor-singer-songwriter-producer to make it — as well as her original song ‘ ’Til You’re Home.’
Entertainment & Arts
The Los Angeles-based German artist Silke Otto-Knapp was known for enigmatic paintings of figures and landscapes.