Hardcover fiction 1. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books:…
Travis Kelce isn’t afraid to share his love story. It turns out that Taylor Swift’s unexpected behavior during the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears in September tipped the relationship into this-is-the-real-deal territory, he said on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast. Kelce explained that they had already been seeing each other privately…
Natasha Kline based “Primos” on her childhood summers spent with her cousins. (Brittany Bravo / For The Times) As a child, Natasha Kline saw every summer as an opportunity to reinvent herself. A self-described shy, artsy introvert, Kline would approach the extended break convinced that she would pick up a new skill or be otherwise…
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is in love — and there’s nothing he can do about it! The “Love Actually” child star, 34, married actor Talulah Riley, 38, in a 14th-century church in the village of Anstey, England, over the weekend. The bride arrived in a horse-drawn carriage wearing an elegant white satin dress and lace-lined veil, while…
This article contains spoilers for the first episode of “Orphan Black: Echoes.” Sometimes a new television show illuminates the limitless possibilities of the art form. And sometimes it reveals that art form’s struggles. “Orphan Black: Echoes” is precisely what the title implies — a far-off reverberation of an original event, in many ways mirroring the…
Jamie Kellner, a pioneering media executive who helped expand the world of broadcast television by creating Fox and the WB networks, died Friday. He was 77. Kellner also oversaw CNN, TNT and TBS as chairman and chief executive of Turner Broadcasting System. He died at his home in Montecito after a long battle with cancer,…
Ann Philbin, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 6. The Los Angeles art world is still reeling — eight months after the fact — from the news that Ann Philbin, longtime director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, is retiring at the end of this year. Philbin — who has…
Justin Timberlake knows he’s “hard to love” sometimes but thanked his fans in the Windy City on Friday for doing so anyway, addressing his recent arrest in the Hamptons and subsequent charge of driving while intoxicated in public for the first time. Apparently, his Tuesday arrest in New York did not “ruin” his world tour…
Six weeks before Tom Girardi’s criminal trial in Los Angeles is scheduled to begin, federal prosecutors revealed that they intend to introduce key evidence: that the disgraced former attorney allegedly spent more than $25 million of client and law firm money on the career of his reality TV star wife. Until now, Erika Girardi —…
Artificial intelligence is “exciting,” but guardrails must be put in place to protect labor, intellectual property and ethics, NBCUniversal Studio Group Chairman Donna Langley said Friday at an entertainment industry law conference. During a wide-ranging, on-stage conversation at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium, the media chief emphasized that first, “the labor piece of it has to…
