Josh Klinghoffer, the former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist, accepted a plea deal after facing a vehicular manslaughter charge. Klinghoffer, 45, was charged in the death of Israel Sanchez in March after a collision last year in Alhambra. Klinghoffer was driving a black GMC Yukon at the corner of West Main Street and South Meridian…
CBS has notched another small victory in its legal battle with Sony Pictures Television, winning an appellate court ruling that allows the network to continue to distribute “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” as its court case continues. Sony owns the shows and produces them on its Culver City lot. Last month, a Los Angeles judge…
Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the board of San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion after its most recent funding round in March, is known for its AI chatbot model Claude. “Anthropic is very optimistic about the AI benefits for humanity, but is also very aware of the economic, social,…
Mess with 50 Cent and he might come for your house — even if it takes him a few years to do it. The rapper’s company Sire Spirits got the OK last week from a federal judge to seize the Connecticut home of former Sire executive Mitchell Green as partial payment toward a $7-million debt…
Blake Lively’s push to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s defamation countersuit is drawing support from several advocacy groups, who say the case threatens a hard-won legal protection for people who speak out about sexual harassment and misconduct. Equal Rights Advocates, a San Francisco–based legal nonprofit that advocates for gender equity and workplace protections, filed an amicus brief…
Red cloaks. Stiff white bonnets. Bent heads. If there’s a single image that Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” leaves audiences with as it ends its six-season run this week, it’s this one: That of women in a dystopian anti-America called Gilead, evolving from anonymous sexual slaves into rebels, warriors and, sometimes, survivors. But for “Handmaid’s” creator…
This story is full of spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 2, especially the finale. Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” ends with the ultimate cliffhanger (seriously, if you have not seen and do not want to know, please stop reading right now): An Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) vs. Ellie (Bella Ramsey) face-off…
It’s 6 a.m. in Brisbane, Australia, and Kaitlyn Dever is thinking about going to the beach. Except it’s pouring rain outside, which is the only reason she had the option to check out the waves in the first place. The deluge has delayed her call time for “Godzilla x Kong: Supernova,” the monster movie she’s…
Hannah Gutierrez, the weapons handler in the ill-fated Alec Baldwin western movie “Rust,” has been released from prison after serving 14 months for her conviction last year of involuntary manslaughter. Gutierrez was released Friday from a New Mexico women’s prison after completing her sentence in the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021….
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Josh O’Connor in the movie “The Mastermind.” (Festival de Cannes) Leave it to Kelly Reichardt, who turned Michelle Williams into a seething sculptor with frenemy issues in “Showing Up,” to make the gentlest, most self-deprecating heist movie imaginable. As such, she’s invented a whole new genre. The year is 1970 but don’t expect…
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is a catchy, provocative title for writer-director Laura Piani’s debut feature, but it is a bit of a misnomer. Her heroine, Agathe (Camille Rutherford), may harbor that fear deep inside, but it’s never one she speaks aloud. A lonely clerk working at the famed Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris,…
Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton, who plays chain-smoking crisis manager Tommy Norris in Taylor Sheridan’s latest hit “Landman,” seems like a guy who can’t be intimidated. But get him in a room with Allison Janney and the truth comes out. “I was afraid of you,” he tells her sheepishly on The Envelope’s Emmy Roundtable…
In the last several years, YouTube has become an increasingly formidable competitor to streaming services and entertainment studios, providing videos from amateur and professional creators, as well as livestreaming major events and NFL games. Now its growing threat to studios is headed to the courts. The Google-owned platform recently poached Justin Connolly, president of platform…
Mexican corrido singer Gabito Ballesteros has always been a hopeless romantic. His newest album, “Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas,” or “They No Longer Perform Serenades,” tugs at those delicate heartstrings. Released Thursday, the album pays tribute to romance in the digital era of smartphones and social media. Invoking modern-day references, like sending Instagram DMs and…
After six years of study, Kim Kardashian has completed her law studies. On Wednesday, she celebrated privately with a single-student surprise graduation ceremony attended by friends, key supporters and family, including her children. “It’s an absolute honor to stand here today, not just as mentors but as witnesses to one of the most inspiring law…
“Sirens,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, is an odd sort of a series, an interesting mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and what might be called dark farce. Set over Labor Day weekend on a Cape Cod island peopled by rich folks whose taste runs to pastels and floral prints, it stars Julianne Moore as Michaela,…
Florida-born rapper Rod Wave was arrested this week in Fulton County, Ga., on suspicion of more than a dozen charges, including possession of a firearm and and assault — a count his lawyers decry as “incomprehensible.” The 26-year-old musician (born Rodarius Green), was booked Tuesday in Fulton County Jail and released on a $50,000 bond,…
George Wendt, who will be famous as long as television is remembered as Norm from “Cheers,” died Tuesday. He passed in Los Angeles, where he lived, though the cities to which he is spiritually tied are Boston, where the show was set, and Chicago, where he was born and entered show business by way of…
From the moment Michael Cimino heard about “Motorheads,” a new coming-of-age drama set in a small town against the backdrop of street racing, he knew he had to be a part of it. The young actor, best known as the lead in Hulu’s “Love, Victor,” had long been looking for something just like it. “Literally,…
Natalia Bryant, the eldest daughter of late Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, got an A-list round of applause online after she graduated Friday with honors from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. “Congratulations!! World is yours!!” actor Michael B. Jordan wrote on Natalia’s Instagram post while “Euphoria” actor Storm Reid shouted out, “gorg nani! proud…
For Sebastián Yatra, a miracle doesn’t have to be a grandiose happenstance; it can be a child’s smile, the perfect cup of tea or rain on a sunny day. “You find [miracles] in everything,” said Yatra in a video call from his Miami home. These tiny, often overlooked moments sparked the concept behind the Colombian…
This story contains many spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 6. The infected have learned to stalk and sprint. The Cordyceps fungus is now airborne. And Joel (Pedro Pascal) isn’t immortal. The first five episodes of “The Last of Us” offered up several new threats and at least one major death. Deep…
CANNES, France — “The sun is my mortal enemy,” Ari Aster says, squinting as he sits on the sixth-floor rooftop terrace of Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, where most of the screenings happen. It’s an especially bright afternoon and we take refuge in the shade. Aster, the 38-year-old filmmaker of “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” wears a olive-colored suit and…
The beef is building between Bruce Springsteen and President Trump. The Boss did not back down on his fiery rhetoric against Trump on the second night of his “Land of Hopes and Dreams” tour in Manchester, England, on Saturday — a day after Trump lashed out against the legendary singer on Truth Social, calling him…
I wasn’t expecting a painting of a naked clown to greet me when I FaceTimed Demetri Martin on a Monday afternoon in May. After the longest two seconds of my life, the comedian appeared in front of the camera with an unassuming smile. For the past few months, Martin has been toiling away in the…
Looking back, casting Diego Luna in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” may well prove to be the single most consequential decision in that storied franchise’s history. Hearing Luna’s Mexican accent in a galaxy far, far away was not only refreshing. It was radical. And as Season 2 of “Andor” proved, it set the stage…
Epic Games on Friday said that its popular game “Fortnite” will be offline on Apple devices because the iPhone maker blocked its recent app update. The dispute comes just weeks after Epic Games and other app developers cheered a judge’s ruling that limited the commissions that Apple makes through third party apps distributed through its…
Adam Sandler has no crocodile tears for “Happy Gilmore” co-star Morris the alligator — he has fond jokes instead. The “Punch-Drunk Love” actor and comedian on Wednesday shared a playful tribute honoring his reptilian co-star who died Sunday of old age at a gator farm in southern Colorado. In the tribute, shared to Instagram and…
Chris Brown is facing the music for allegedly smashing a tequila bottle over a music producer’s head at a London nightclub two years ago. The R&B star was arrested in connection to the incident early Thursday. The Metropolitan Police force confirmed in a Thursday statement shared with multiple outlets that officers arrested the controversial “Under…
YouTube is getting another piece of the NFL by landing its first exclusive live pro football broadcast in the first week of the season. The streaming platform will have worldwide rights to the Sept. 5 meeting between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs from São Paulo, Brazil. The teams will face off…
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth with an extravagance of sonic invention and dance. Eight clusters of Los Angeles Philharmonic players, ranging from a single oboe to groupings of winds and brass and strings seated onstage and around Walt Disney Concert Hall, set a ceremonial tone. Percussion…
This story contains spoilers for “Andor” Season 2, including Episodes 10 through 12. When Elizabeth Dulau first heard what showrunner Tony Gilroy had planned for her character in Season 2 of “Andor,” she burst out laughing. “I just couldn’t believe what he was saying,” says the actor, who portrays the aloof and steadfast rebel spy…
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn’t have a choice. The Oscar-winning actor recently called out Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on social media, saying the company ignored her requests to take down a fake AI-generated advertisement on Instagram that had been…
It has been almost 3,150 days — more than 8½ years — since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. On Tuesday, she finally gets to testify against the suspects. By the fall of 2016, the Kim Kardashian West train had been speeding through the celebrity landscape like a bullet for years, running down…
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is having its L.A. premiere at the Fountain Theatre, and the less I tell you about it, the better. Soleimanpour is known for his “cold read plays,” which are performed by an actor immediately after receiving the script in front of an equally unprepared audience. Mystery…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> This story contains spoilers for Episode 5 of “The Last of Us” Season 2. Jesse is angry. He also has impeccable timing. Just as Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) find themselves cornered by numerous infected inside an abandoned warehouse in the latest episode of “The Last of Us,” their reliable friend…
MEXICO CITY — In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel. I like to work/ And if the order is to kill / You don’t question it. And for those who misbehave/ There’s…
Liev Schreiber has plenty of pride for his daughter Kai, who he said came out as transgender with a simple request. “The most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns,” the “Ray Donovan” star told Variety in an interview published Thursday. The Emmy-nominated actor, 57, spoke about his support for his daughter…
The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish. Rather than try to compete…
Taylor Swift’s voice may make a cameo in “It Ends With Us” — the 2024 film now embroiled in legal drama — but a representative for the pop star says that’s where her involvement in the movie ends. Swift was reportedly subpoenaed by the legal team of the film’s director and star, Justin Baldoni, in…
Political pundit Camryn Kinsey fainted on camera Thursday night while making an in-studio appearance on “Fox News @ Night.” It made for a dramatic television moment — one that she commented on Friday morning on social media. Kinsey was on the show to comment on former President Biden’s media appearances this week on “The View”…
Filmmaker James Foley, whose directing career spanned music videos, television and film, with stars including Madonna, Al Pacino and Bruce Dern, has died. Florent Lamy, a representative for Foley, confirmed the Brooklyn-born director’s death to The Times on Thursday. Lamy did not provide a cause of death, but according to media outlets including the Hollywood…
Warner Bros. Discovery posted disappointing first-quarter results despite growth in streaming. But the stock rose Thursday on renewed speculation that the company will spin off its slipping cable channels. Late last year, David Zaslav-led entertainment Warner Bros. Discovery divided its business into two divisions to separate its troubled but still profitable cable channel business. One…
A Mississippi man faces up to three years in prison after he allegedly stalked and harassed Jennifer Aniston for more than two years, culminating in a dramatic incident this week where he crashed his car through her gate while she was home, authorities said. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of New Albany, Miss., was charged Wednesday…
The home of “Selling Sunset” and “The Four Seasons” is getting a major renovation. Netflix on Wednesday said it is rolling out a new look and a series of additional features to its TV homepage, as the streamer continues to build its stable of film and TV programming, live events and games. When customers open…
This story contains spoilers for “Andor” Season 2, Episode 9. Senator Mon Mothma is finally, openly, part of the rebellion. In the ninth episode of “Andor” Season 2, the senator from Chandrila, played by Genevieve O’Reilly, publicly denounces the Empire in a speech from her pod in the Imperial Senate. “The death of truth is…
Count on Rihanna to drop major baby news during a high-profile event. The singer and Fenty Beauty mogul revealed at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday that she is expecting her third child. Sporting a custom-made Marc Jacobs suit, the singer cradled a baby bump as she posed for photographers on the steps of the…
A man was detained by Los Angeles police after crashing his car through the gates of Jennifer Aniston’s Bel-Air mansion Monday afternoon, according to the police and property records. Police said the homeowner was at home during the incident. The Los Angeles Police Department received a call regarding a crash in the 900 block of…
“60 Minutes” is not going easy on President Trump. The CBS newsmagazine is embroiled in a legal battle with the president over its October interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which Trump claims was deceptively edited to help her presidential campaign. The lawsuit is an obstacle to CBS News parent Paramount Global’s proposed $8 billion…
This story contains spoilers for “Day One,” Episode 4 of “The Last of Us” Season 2. One of the first places Ellie and Dina explore when they reach Seattle is Capitol Hill. “What’s up with all the rainbows,” asks Dina, played by Isabela Merced, as the pair make their way through a desolate neighborhood decorated…
They may not be the Avengers, but the motley crew of Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” punched their way to the top of the box office this weekend, continuing a strong season for theaters as Hollywood’s summer movie season gets underway. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan as part of an antihero ensemble, opened…
San Francisco — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared it Michael Tilson Thomas Day. City Hall glowed MTT’s trademark blue. Davies Symphony Hall, where Tilson Thomas presided over the San Francisco Symphony for an influential quarter century, was festooned with giant blue balloons. For Tilson Thomas, it all was the culmination of what he declared in…
Brian Montana, a former guitarist for the Bay Area death metal band Possessed, was killed in a shootout with police in South San Francisco. The incident occurred April 28 after Montana, 60, confronted a neighbor about tree branches and leaves falling into his yard, according to a press release from the South San Francisco Police…
Beyoncé kicked off her highly anticipated “Cowboy Carter” tour this week in Los Angeles at the SoFi Stadium, where she’ll be gracing the stage five times through May 9. Share Share via Close extra sharing options As expected, the Beyhive (a.k.a. her most dedicated fans) showed out with their western-inspired outfits, which were heavily influenced…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. suffered a major blow this week when a federal judge ruled that the iPhone maker violated a court order to stop charging commission fees for purchases made outside of its own marketplace. In a scathing rebuke, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers upped the stakes for Apple by referring the case…
Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl” was the rare pop song of that era to take an openly queer theme into the cultural mainstream, died Thursday. She was 66. Her death was announced by her spokesman, David Elkin, who said she died in a house fire in the…
It was the bravest of times, it was the priciest of times. The Tony Award nominations, announced Thursday morning in New York, reflect the split screen reality of a Broadway season divided by mavericks and mega-stars. The mavericks fared considerably better. Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in “Good Night, and Good Luck” at the Winter…
Henry Golding revealed he has reconnected with several of his “Crazy Rich Asians” collaborators as the hit film, based on author Kevin Kwan’s book trilogy, gets a future on the little screen. Golding, who starred as affluent heartthrob Nick Young in the 2018 film, told the “Today” show on Wednesday that he recently reunited with…
When filmmaker Joe Burke talks about his microbudget indie film “Burt,” he can’t stop saying the word “magic.” He seems to chase that magic, perhaps rooted in his days as a teenage magician working at Outback Steakhouse in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. “I want to make people laugh, I want to make people cry,”…
As CBS-owner Paramount Global enters mediation this week to resolve President Trump’s $20-billion “60 Minutes” lawsuit, one question looms: How much should the company pay to settle a dispute that 1st Amendment experts have deemed frivolous? Paramount’s board during an April 18 meeting agreed on parameters for a possible settlement with Trump, according to two…
“Do what you love, but don’t do it at me, don’t aim it at me.” That’s Terrence Howard talking about gay men while explaining why he never portrayed singer Marvin Gaye onscreen. He planned at one point to portray Gaye in a movie helmed by “Empire” executive producer Lee Daniels, Howard told Bill Maher on…
The Criterion faithful are very happy — standing out in the rain on a cold Saturday morning, hundreds of them, waiting in a line that stretches several blocks. Three fans, Daniel Solis, Marco Castaneda and Kian Mohammadlou, have just been informed that they’ve made the cut: They are the very last people today who will…
The rock hall of fame’s newest list of inductees would make for one crazy playlist. Cyndi Lauper and Joe Cocker? The White Stripes and Chubby Checker? Those performers and more were announced Monday as the hall’s Class of 2025 by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which will honor them at a ceremony…
This article contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Season 2 of “The Last of Us.” “Give Sarah my love.” Spoken in a voice inflected with exhaustion and grief, they’re the only words that Tommy, played by the actor Gabriel Luna, is able to muster to Joel (Pedro Pascal), whose lifeless body lies shrouded on a…
Playing a gangster suits Pierce Brosnan. The actor, 71, is often best remembered for heroic characters like James Bond, but ruthless crime boss Conrad Harrigan on “MobLand” is quickly becoming a fan-favorite role. The series, created by Ronan Bennett and written with Jez Butterworth, follows Conrad and his fixer Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) as…
Amanda Knox has found comfort in “the sisterhood of ill repute.” Speaking at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center at the University of Southern California to a crowd of over 200 people at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Saturday, Knox was candid about connecting with other women who she says have been publicly vilified….
For decades, Charles Burnett’s best film was little more than a rumor. Shot over weekends in the early 1970s with a mostly nonprofessional cast and a budget that didn’t hit five figures, “Killer of Sheep” wouldn’t receive its first public screening until the fall of 1978 at New York’s Whitney Museum. Sporadically playing only at…
It was a night of literary excellence at the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony Friday night at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. As winners in 12 competitive categories and three special prizes took the stage, many addressed the fraught political climate in the U.S. as well as L.A. rebuilding after January’s devastating firestorms. Writers also…
The Kings are playing in Edmonton this weekend with a chance to sweep the Oilers and win their first playoff series since their Stanley Cup championship run in 2014. Hopefully the Kings didn’t forget any of the essentials while packing for such a big trip. “Pack your harmonicas,” the Kings’ X account posted following the…
Drag queen Jiggly Caliente, a fierce performer who competed on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” will take time away from the spotlight to focus on her health after a portion of her right leg was recently amputated. The “Pose” actor and “Drag Race Philippines” judge was hospitalized for a “severe” infection and lost “most of her right…
Fox News’ Peter Doocy and Fox Business’ Hillary Vaughn have welcomed a second child. “Meet George Jack Doocy! Born after 30 hours of labor at 8lb, 11oz and 20.5 inches long — on our fourth wedding anniversary,” White House correspondent Doocy said Thursday on social media. “So thank you, son, for being the reason I’ll…
Sophie Nyweide, a former child actor whose brief career in the late aughts to early 2010s included roles in films “Mammoth,” “Noah” and “Bella,” has died. Nyweide died April 14 in her home state of Vermont, her family announced in a Legacy.com obituary published last week. “Creative, athletic and wise beyond her years, Sophie accomplished…
The password sharing crackdown has come for Max users. On Tuesday, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming service said it is implementing an option for its subscribers to add friends and out-of-home family members to their plans. Max will allow each subscription account to add one person who does not live in their household for $7.99…
New York — An eerie, overpowering force has taken over the Marquis Theatre, home of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” which had its official Broadway opening on Tuesday. This supernatural power is from a dimension even more intimidating than the Upside Down. The occult realm of Netflix, the streaming service that ensnares viewers in a maze of…
Lady Gaga is bringing “Mayhem” to Los Angeles. Days after her headlining appearance at this month’s Coachella festival, the pop superstar announced Tuesday that she’ll play four shows at Inglewood’s Kia Forum in July and August. The gigs — part of Gaga’s global Mayhem Ball tour — will happen July 28 and 29 and Aug….
It seems Billy Ray Cyrus doesn’t have an achy breaky heart with his new flame: British actor-model Elizabeth Hurley. The country music artist, 63, and the “Austin Powers” alum, 59, hard-launched their relationship over the weekend in a joint Instagram post. “Happy Easter,” Hurley captioned the Sunday photo. In the picture, Cyrus dons a pair…
On the Shelf The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood By Matthew SpecktorEcco: 384 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Matthew Specktor is aware that his third book about Los Angeles is landing during a…
Not all heroes wear capes. This one is an impeccably dressed lawyer who is often armed with a tumbler of whiskey. And the new “Suits” spin-off has called him back for duty. When NBC announced that it was capitalizing on the success of the glossy legal drama — which concluded its USA Network run nearly…
Moviegoes embraced “sin” over the Easter weekend. “Sinners,” the highly anticipated period drama delivering a mashup of horror, music and vampires, scored a solid opening, topping the holiday box office with $45.6 million. The R-rated film starring Michael B. Jordan delighted critics and audiences who rewarded it with an “A” ranking on CinemaScore. Coming in…
Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their children, both generations sporting red devil horn headbands and cheering for 77-year-old singer Brian Johnson and white-haired guitar icon Angus Young, 70. But AC/DC did just that, playing 21 instantly…
Inside the club-like Sonora tent on the grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Gary Tovar is inching closer to the stage. As ever, he’s snapping pictures on his phone, and shooting bits of video, to be shared online later. Onstage on this opening weekend of the festival is the Los Angeles…
Stewart Copeland is best known as one-third of the Police, the chart-topping trio that called it quits after five acclaimed albums released between 1978-1983 and launched Sting to solo stardom. With the Police, which also included guitarist Andy Summers, out of the picture, the drummer-percussionist changed course and became an in-demand film and TV score…
Taking in a new David Cronenberg film occasionally evokes the strangeness of a beloved cat bringing a fresh kill to your door: It’s somehow unsettling and affecting, a horror yet a gift, and decidedly weird but also sad and even funny. The subjects of grief and biotechnology in the macabre Canadian’s latest offering, “The Shrouds,”…
Demi Moore expected Mikey Madison to win the Academy Award for lead actress, she recently told Time magazine. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did,” Moore said in the interview. “I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and…
PARIS — Dance has been a connective thread through all of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s shows. It hovered in the background of “Gilmore Girls,” made an apt setting for “Bunheads” and was a constant addition to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” But on “Étoile,” the couple’s love of ballet finally comes to the forefront. The eight-episode series,…
Amanda Bynes just wants to talk with her fans — at least with the ones willing to pay. The former child actor has joined OnlyFans. “I’m on onlyfans now!” Bynes wrote in an Instagram story Tuesday. “Disclaimer: I’m doing onlyfans to chat with my fans through dm’s. I won’t be posting any sleazy content. Excited…
“Star Trek” is a franchise that’s always seemed ripe for exploration in a theme park. Space travel, aliens, magic-like technology and, perhaps most importantly, an underlying belief in human-centered optimism. Encounter someone who saw “Star Trek: The Experience” in Las Vegas, which opened in the late ’90s and ran for about a decade, and expect…
Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show who hosted “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “Gambit,” “High Rollers” and a slew of other programs that became staples in living rooms across America, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage. He was 91. Martindale, a longtime voice of Los Angeles radio who had an unexpected hit record in the late 1950s,…
Journalism isn’t what it used to be, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Especially if you’re Mehdi Hasan. Hasan, 45, is no stranger to the rising dissatisfaction around the state of the news media and the confusion over how we consume our news. He rose through the ranks of broadcast giants, including the BBC,…
So far, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s inaugural season at the helm of the Geffen Playhouse has spanned a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size,” a co-production of “Noises Off” and a starry staging of “Waiting for Godot.” Unbeknownst to the public, the playwright’s tenure at the city’s most prominent Westside theater has also included workshops of…
What makes the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival consistently the most talked-about live music event of the year is that it continues to be a kaleidoscopic melting pot of pop culture. A sweltering opening weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio that saw temperatures reach triple digits didn’t dampen the highlights, which included…
Bella Ramsey can take a hard punch. But they can also give some back. To do so, the actor incorporated a new element into their preparation for the second season of “The Last of Us”: physical training. For two months, they practiced martial arts and worked to become more proficient in combat and weapons. They…
American director Don Mischer, a virtuoso of live TV spectacles, dies at 85. Don Mischer, a 15-time Emmy recipient and Peabody Award honoree, produced some of the biggest star-studded events in live television — masterminding broadcasts of the opening ceremonies of two Olympics, six Super Bowl halftime shows and the inaugural celebration of President Obama….
The most consequential cameo of Coachella so far was an unbilled guest slot from Sen. Bernie Sanders. Fresh off a packed rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in downtown L.A. that drew tens of thousands, Sanders (flanked by congressman Maxwell Frost, a Gen Z inheritor of his vision), spoke just ahead of Clairo’s Outdoor Theater…
Photos from the Coachella music festival featuring Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott.
From the “Road to” series through buddy action movies and bromances, male friendship as comic fodder has been a constant pull, one that has increasingly favored immaturity as the catharsis. Smart plus stupid became stupid hates smarts, until dumb felt ubiquitous. It’s been getting tiresome of late to watch grown men devolve for laughs, which…
After a two-year wait, everyone’s favorite fungal zombie apocalypse show is finally back: The second season of “The Last of Us” premieres Sunday. Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, HBO’s acclaimed survival drama is set in a world that has been ravaged by the outbreak of a mysterious mutant cordyceps fungus that turns human…
Actor Eric Dane, best known for his roles on “Grey’s Anatomy” and more recently on “Euphoria,” reportedly has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The actor shared his diagnosis with People on Thursday, saying that he feels “fortunate” to be able to continue to work, and that he will return to the set of…
On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once owned by Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger, bestselling German writers who moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s as part of…
Steven Spielberg is paying tribute to his longtime publicist and advisor Marvin Levy, the only marketing professional to earn an Oscar for his work. Levy died Monday at age 96. “Marvin’s passing is a huge loss for me and our industry writ large,” Spielberg said in a statement obtained by The Times. “There are many…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 13, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Elton John has had a lot to say about Madonna over the years, but recently he offered the fellow pop icon two simple words: “Forgive me.” Madge announced Monday on Instagram that she and the “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” singer have put an end to their public beef after more than two decades. The…
Perhaps no one is more excited about the reunited Go-Go’s upcoming slate of high-profile gigs than Gina Schock. The 67-year-old drummer missed the band’s last big Los Angeles shows — in 2022 at the Crypto.com Arena and a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in 2018 — due to health issues that required surgery on…
Jenna Ortega has finally spoken up about her departure from “Scream VII.” In a recent interview with The Cut, the “Death of a Unicorn” star admitted that her decision to leave the slasher franchise “had nothing to do with pay or scheduling. The Melissa stuff was happening, and it was all kind of falling apart.”…
Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that caused great consternation when first shown at an annual purchase competition at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, south of…
Stay in LA, the grassroots campaign aimed at boosting film and television production in Los Angeles, held a rally in Sun Valley on Sunday to draw attention to the struggling local entertainment industry. The rally at SirReel Studio Services featured a series of speakers from across the entertainment industry as well as state and national…
After years of quietly releasing center stage-worthy music yet averting the spotlight, British singer-songwriter Cleo Sol made her long-awaited debut on Friday night at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert took place just days after she performed stateside for the first time during a three-show run at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The energy…
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival posted its set times for both of its weekends, with a fresh smattering of Millennial guitar rock added. With Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott still locked as headliners, the festival added a first weekend (April 11-13) set from Weezer in the Mojave Tent at…
You would think most people would need a break after spending 18 months in the military. But most people aren’t international pop stars such as Jung Ho-seok, better known as j-hope of BTS. It seemed like the international pop icon had barely changed out of his uniform in October of last year before he was…
The latest installment of “The White Lotus” comes to an end on Sunday and everyone is speculating about how the series will wrap up its loose ends, who will die and how. We asked readers to share their theories for how Season 3 will end. Three ideas that people shared the most: Piper isn’t staying…
LAS VEGAS — There’s a lot of uncertainty in the movie business. The theatrical box office is struggling to find its footing in a world where movie-going habits and studio strategies have changed since the pandemic. There is anxiety about studio leadership at Warner Bros., the Paramount Global and Skydance merger and a recent major shakeup for…
Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the “freak-folk” movement and inspired generations of artists, has died. He was 83. “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley,” Hurley’s family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “The ‘Godfather of freak…
Beneath the fluorescent lighting of his hotel room in Pylos, Greece, Jesse Garcia combs through his greasy strands of hair after a daylong shoot for “The Odyssey” — Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie adaptation of the Greek epic. “I got set hair,” says Garcia on our video call, somewhat apologetically. Despite a demanding schedule, he has…
Checkout time is nearly here for “The White Lotus” Season 3, and based on the premiere — and the previous editions of Mike White’s dark comedy — someone will be leaving the Thai resort in a body bag when the season finale airs Sunday, April 6. Who is it, whodunit and how? Does Gaitok really…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 6, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Two of entertainment’s most famous brands, Fox and Disney, are parting ways in Century City. Walt Disney Co. acknowledged Tuesday that it will be vacating the storied Fox Studio Lot, where it has been the primary occupant since Disney bought most of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019. The $71.3-billion deal did…
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list. Spring is here, and with it come books that offer groundbreaking ideas to expand our outlook. The nonfiction crop includes an acclaimed novelist’s perspective on writing as a person of color, a searing yet carefully documented call for…
Singer Sean Kingston and his mom are facing the music for a months-long scheme that federal prosecutors said targeted businesses selling high-end goods and defrauded them of more than $1 million. A Florida jury found the “Beautiful Girls” pop star and his 62-year-old mother, Janice Turner, each guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit…
Monday marks 30 years since the tragic death of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez changed the world of Latin music forever. And yet, in that time, it feels as though her legacy as the “Queen of Tejano” never faded away. One can try to measure her impact in the tangible: in the number of posthumous albums sold, in…
“The White Lotus,” Mike White’s black comedy anthology series, is back on HBO for a third season. Times staffers love an escape, but since we can’t take a trip to Thailand to stay at a luxury resort, the next best thing is to immerse ourselves in the new season. Follow along with us for each…
The director reflects on his iconic biopic, which the late singer’s husband, Chris Perez, has called the Selena “bible.” In the three decades since Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s death, her story has been told in a variety of formats, from a podcast to a limited TV series and children’s book. Yet few have remained as culturally significant…
“We always try to make a place where we can constantly be creative in,” says Cypress Hill’s B-Real. He’s talking about his downtown studio, where the bandmates have done most of their recording for the last decade. If anything, it’s certainly cozy. He’s huddled on a black leather couch alongside his longtime friends and group…
From John McDermott’s fragile psyche to the sustained excellence of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods — or Woods and Nicklaus; no spoiler here on who’s No. 1 — this countdown of the top golfers is less a list than an index of insightful, lively profiles rife with anecdotes centered on their most joyous and miserable…
When the French Cinémathèque tried to show Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris” last December as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the organizers eventually canceled the screening after vociferous protest from women’s rights groups. Its infamous rape scene — simulated yet filmed without then-19-year-old star Maria Schneider’s knowledge or consent — has…
In the early 1990s, Kelvin Anderson Sr. built a makeshift recording studio in the back of his Long Beach record store, a vinyl-filled paradise called the World Famous VIP Records on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He wanted to give youth a creative outlet in the gang ridden…
President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating “divisive, race-based ideology” and issued an executive order Thursday demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racial themes that “divide Americans.” The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” directs Vice President JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from the…
Marcus Choi, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Darren Criss of the Broadway musical “Maybe Happy Ending,” photographed at the Belasco Theater in New York. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times) A line in “Maybe Happy Ending” describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. “They only live…
Richard Carlson, a controversial fixture in West Coast TV journalism during the 1970s, died Monday at his Florida home after a long illness. Carlson’s death was announced by his son Tucker, the conservative pundit and former Fox News host, in a post on X. Richard Carlson, who started his award-winning career as a copy boy…
Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press: $29) An historical horror novel about a vampire who haunts the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. 3. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf: $32) The…
Shailene Woodley, actor and environmentalist, was featured in Outside magazine late last year beneath the headline “Here’s What It’s Like to Go Camping With Shailene Woodley.” Actor Lucas Bravo looked like he could have told that same story as he and Woodley stepped out in Paris — she with a messy half-up, half-down ’do, no…
“Millions are to be grabbed out here,” Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote Ben Hecht in 1926, “and your only competition is idiots.” Here was Hollywood, in particular the picture business, and Hecht, a former journalist and already the co-author of “The Front Page” and other plays, would take him up on it, writing or co-writing the…
Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian co-directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was detained Monday in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military after he was allegedly brutally attacked by settlers. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed “No Other Land,” wrote Monday on X that “a group of settlers just…
The physical mementos Jenna Fischer kept from her years making the beloved comedy series “The Office,” which debuted on NBC 20 years ago today, have become invaluable artifacts from a cherished time now preserved onscreen for posterity. In the American reimagining of the British show created by Ricky Gervais, Fischer played Pam Beasley, the kindhearted…
“The White Lotus,” Mike White’s black comedy anthology series, is back on HBO for a third season. Times staffers love an escape, but since we can’t take a trip to Thailand to stay at a luxury resort, the next best thing is to immerse ourselves in the new season. Follow along with us for each…
Officially, playwright and screenwriter Marco Ramirez began working on the Broadway musical “Buena Vista Social Club” a little more than six years ago. But if you start the clock when the Cuban supergroup’s music first seeped into his soul, he’s been penning it for decades. Like many Cubans and Cuban Americans, the silky crooning of…
Who can’t wait to live on other planets? Second thoughts may be in order after seeing the woolly sci-fi-horror trip “Ash” from Grammy-winning L.A. music guru-turned-director Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison), who spins a bare-bones game of cosmic survival with true sound-and-image flair and an unbridled enthusiasm for the strange beauty of mutant gore. That…
Ticket selling platform StubHub Holdings Inc. filed for an initial public offering disclosing revenue growth and a small annual loss for 2024. StubHub had a loss of $2.8 million on revenue of $1.77 billion last year, compared with net income of $405 million on revenue of $1.37 billion in 2023, according to its filing Friday…
A popular if snarky response to the horrible behavior of someone else’s kids goes a little like this: You need a license to own a pet, but they’ll let anybody have a child. Bring on the cinema of conjecture. Taking that “what if” premise of state-mandated parental suitability to a dystopian extreme is the elegantly…
Book Review Retreat By Krysten RitterHarper: 272 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. One winter’s night, at a charity gala in a Chicago gallery, a con is on. Liz Dawson, masquerading as art consultant Elizabeth Hastings, finds the mark…
When I meet Sophie Castillo on a scorching, 93-degree afternoon in Austin, Texas, she takes a seat by the pool at the Fairmont hotel in a long leather blazer — and tells me she’s keeping it on. “We went seven consecutive days without sunshine last month,” says the London-born singer-songwriter, who performed at the city’s…
Lucy Dacus sits at a picnic table in Elysian Park blinking against the sun on a windy afternoon in early March. Last night, the 29-year-old singer and songwriter went to Elton John’s annual Oscar viewing party to watch Chappell Roan — “a new friend,” she says — perform “Pink Pony Club” with Sir Elton; tonight…
Last year, Walt Disney Co.’s annual shareholder meeting was fraught with tension as a billionaire activist investor sought to shake up the boardroom and change the course of the company. This year, by comparison, will be less charged. The Burbank media and entertainment company is coming off a strong year for its studio business, with…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 23, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Gwyneth Paltrow did not hold back when discussing intimate scenes with Timothée Chalamet in the upcoming movie “Marty Supreme.” Paltrow, 52, put it bluntly: “I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’” Paltrow and Chalamet, 29, star in the upcoming Josh Safdie-directed movie loosely based on the life of table tennis champ…
“Should the Getty move?” Times art critic Christopher Knight asked in a recent commentary. “Should the Villa, and the Getty Center in the fire-prone Brentwood hills nearby, both evacuate — for good?” The thought occurred to Knight in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that tore through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January, resulting…
SAG-AFTRA is sticking with diversity, equity and inclusion, even as major forces in Hollywood distance themselves from such measures. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ national board adopted a resolution on Saturday that made clear the union is doubling down on its DEI efforts. “[D]iversity, equity, and inclusion are not only…
After earning rave reviews for his stint hosting the Oscars earlier this month, Conan O’Brien will return to host the 2026 ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC said Monday. “The only reason I’m hosting ‘The Oscars’ next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech,” O’Brien…
As usual, ASAP Rocky made a memorable entrance on Saturday night. Wearing dark sunglasses, walnut-sized diamond earrings and a T-shirt with a bulletproof vest printed on it, the rapper, style maven and professional wife guy began his headlining set at this weekend’s Rolling Loud California festival by descending down a cable hanging from a helicopter…
In the program for “Beckett Briefs,” a bill of three short plays by Samuel Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City, three questions are posed: “Why these plays?” “Why now?” And “Why Beckett?” The concise answers put forth by the production’s director, Ciarán O’Reilly, and Irish Rep Artistic Director Charlotte Moore are…
Unlike his character Jackie Moreno in the Netflix sitcom “Running Point,” Fabrizio Guido wasn’t much of a basketball connoisseur before booking the gig. He’s more into pugilism. “I constantly compare acting [to] boxing,” said the 25-year-old Angeleno about getting the call informing him that he would be portraying Moreno, a concessions worker for the fictional…
Grammy Award-winning rapper Jay Rock was arrested Thursday evening near the Watts public housing complex where he grew up and booked on suspicion of illegal firearm possession, authorities said. The 39-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department at 5:20 p.m. in the 13000 block of…
It had been a decade and a year since the Vienna Philharmonic came our way to remind us how, for this storied ensemble of like-minded musicians, the medium can be magically both the message and the massage. The orchestra produces a ravishment of sound both immaterial and downright tactile. The orchestra’s pair of concerts this…
On the Shelf Heartbreaker By Mike CampbellGrand Central Publishing: 464 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville,…
Before Gene Hackman died, his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was the 95-year-old’s primary caregiver. Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming, has been the “Die Hard” star’s primary caregiver since he stepped away from acting in March 2022. The deaths of Arakawa and Hackman, one after the other over the course of a week or so in February,…
We all have an inner clown, a wild self whose yearning for delight is greater than the fear of failure. A little one who wants to play during nap time, convenience to others be damned. Underneath layers and layers of socialization, we each have a clown willing to risk heartbreak for joy. Or at least…
Reggae singer and Jamaican national icon Cocoa Tea has died. He was 65. The singer, born Calvin George Scott, died Tuesday of cardiac arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Malvia Scott, the singer’s wife, confirmed the death to the newspaper the Jamaica Gleaner. She told the paper that he was diagnosed with lymphoma and pneumonia in…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 16, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
In its second week of preview performances, a revival of Shakespeare’s “Othello” set a new record for weekly grosses on Broadway, bringing in $2,818,297 for eight shows. Starring Denzel Washington in the title role and Jake Gyllenhaal as the manipulative Iago, the production played to 100% capacity for each of its eight shows last week,…
LONDON — A one-shot is a notoriously difficult filmmaking technique to do well. It requires a perfect coordination of cast, crew and camera, without the chance for any mistakes. In fact, making a film or a TV series as a true “oner” is almost never done. Of course, that hasn’t stopped Stephen Graham, whose new Netflix series…
John Mulaney is returning to late-night television after the success of his oddball, one-week-only show “Everybody’s in L.A.” which debuted on Netflix last year. Although he was clear that the first show was strictly a six-episode gig, it appears its popularity enticed both the streamer and the stand-up comedian to invest in a series with…
Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building, and in the case of one artwork…
Director Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17” had a slow start in theaters this weekend, amid a sluggish last few weeks for the domestic box office. The Warner Bros. Pictures film opened in the U.S. and Canada to $19.1 million, landing it in first place. But “Mickey 17” was expected to bring in about…
AUSTIN, Texas — Although the video game “The Last of Us Part II” came out in 2020 — seven years after the blockbuster original — there are still enough viewers blissfully unaware of what’s to come on HBO’s Emmy-winning adaptation that the L.A. Times studio at SXSW was a strict spoiler-free zone on Saturday when the team…
Set in South L.A. somewhere in the not too near future, “Oh My God … Yes!” — subtitled not without reason “A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances” — is the devilish Afro-futurist surrealist animated action series you didn’t know you were waiting for. It premieres with two episodes Sunday on Adult Swim, home of the…
AUSTIN, Texas — Spring has sprung in the Lone Star capital, the sign that another SXSW Film and TV Festival is here — and the Times team is set up in the heart of downtown throughout the weekend. Follow our full coverage as we recommend titles to check out, report from the buzziest premieres, and visit with…
AUSTIN, Texas — Kevin Bacon and Erik Oleson, star and showrunner of Prime Video’s demonic-bounty-hunter series “The Bondsman,” stopped by the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival on Friday to answer our Very Important Questions. From the NFL’s most devilish franchise to who he sold his soul to in order to stay…
Kate Mara will be everywhere at this year’s South by Southwest. After the world premiere of “The Astronaut” on Friday, the world premiere of “The Dutchman” on Saturday and the U.S. premiere of “Friendship” on Monday, Mara will make her way to Ireland to begin shooting “Bucking Fasterd” for director Werner Herzog, appearing for the…
Paramount Global has asked a federal judge to toss President Trump’s $20-billion lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview, alleging Trump’s legal effort was designed to “punish” CBS for editorial decisions — a violation of protected free speech rights. In its motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed Thursday, Paramount argued that Trump and fellow…
South by Southwest has carved out a specific niche for itself on the festival circuit, a little rowdier and more spirited than the likes of Sundance or Cannes. That off-kilter ethos is encapsulated in the opening-night lineup at the festival’s centerpiece venue, Austin’s Paramount Theatre. World-premiering Friday, Paul Feig’s “Another Simple Favor,” a sequel to…
“Hamilton,” the musical sensation about the titular Founding Father and the birth of the United States, will no longer play at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts amid President Trump’s new role as the chairman. Trump announced in February that he intended to appoint himself chairman and immediately terminate members of the…
Five years ago, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho stood on the Oscars stage, stunned as his movie “Parasite” made history as the first non-English-language film to win best picture. The darkly satirical thriller about class struggle and deception had already won three other Academy Awards that night, for directing, original screenplay and international feature,…
Kimberly Burch, the fiancée of Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe, died Monday after falling overboard on an ’80s-themed cruise. Burch’s family confirmed the death in a statement on Facebook, saying, “It is with broken hearts that we share the sad news that Kimberly Burch has passed away. She was a beloved daughter, sister, sister-in-law and…
Whether French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte was gay is not known, although it is frequently noted that he never married. (The artist died young, at 45, in 1894 from what is thought to have been a stroke.) Certainly, however, Caillebotte was homosocial. Evidence of the importance to him of strong social interactions with other men,…
Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brodyclearly had plenty to say at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday. Now, it seems his insistence to deliver a lengthy acceptance speech has paid off. “The Brutalist” star and lead actor winner now holds the record for the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history. After blowing a kiss to the…
When it premiered back in 2021, “The White Lotus” was a sharp class satire aimed at skewering high-end tourism and the elite one-percenters willing to pay $9,000 a night to relax. Written and directed by Mike White, the darkly comic mystery followed the entitled guests and beleaguered employees at a luxurious Maui hotel over the…
4:34 p.m. So will Culkin’s third and fourth kids be named Emmy and Oscar or what? — M.M. Haha. Let’s hope not. My takeaway from Kieran Culkin’s predictably delightful speech: Never make any promises to your spouse after they win a major award! — G.W. Talk about commitment to a bit. — M.M. What’s she…
If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you just spent multiple weeks celebrating 50 years of comedy and music with star-studded live events, how do you follow all those festivities for your first regular episode back? “SNL” counter-intuitively brought expectations back down to sea level by inviting Shane Gillis, the once-hired-then-fired comic who hosted last year,…
Angie Stone, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer and songwriter who found success as part of the 1990s neo-soul movement after nearly two decades in the music business, died early Saturday in a traffic accident in Alabama, according to the Associated Press. She was 63. Her death was confirmed by the music producer Walter Millsap III, who…
A furious political leader shouting a message of hate to an adoring audience. A child crying over the massacre of her family. Emaciated men in prison uniforms, starved to the edge of death because of their identities. As you read each sentence, specific imagery likely appears in your mind, seared in your memory and our…
Leave it to Francis Ford Coppola to use his Razzie “win” as an opportunity to critique the film industry. Coppola was named worst director by the parody awards show honoring the year’s “worst” movies. The “Godfather” director wrote in an Instagram post that he was “thrilled” by the honor. “In this wreck of a world…
For more than 20 years, Sherman Oaks florist Mark’s Garden has designed the towering greenery and blooming displays seen at the Oscars. Getting that Hollywood awards-season work is key, particularly during the business’ typically slow first quarter of the year. And the free advertising that comes with your floral arrangements gracing the year’s biggest stage?…
Peppa Pig is about to become a bigger sister — and little brother George will finally be a big bro. Seems Mummy Pig is pregnant. The cartoon British pig family, which hit TV screens as “Peppa Pig” more than 20 years ago, before the books, merchandise, movies and theme parks, shared the news Thursday through…
Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor who brought a flinty menace to films such as “Bonnie and Clyde,” “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven” was found dead Wednesday along with his wife in New Mexico, authorities said. He was 95. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department said Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were found…
Paramount Global expects to finalize its sale to David Ellison’s Skydance Media by summer, the company said Wednesday, slightly adjusting its timeline after encountering static at the Federal Communications Commission. The company had hoped to complete its sale by mid-April. The update came as Paramount reported fourth-quarter earnings, which missed analysts’ expectations. Paramount posted a…
I’ll let you in on a secret: I lose my play-along Oscar ballot every year. Hey, I’m a critic who can’t help voting her heart while championing what should have been nominated instead. This Sunday, I’ll be rooting for these contenders — and elbowing my watch party to catch up with one of these overlooked…
“1923,” the “Yellowstone” prequel, is back for its second and final season. Among Season 2’s changes, the role of Pete Plenty Clouds has been recast following the death of Cole Brings Plenty, who played a sheep herder in the first season. Jeremy Gauna takes on the role and continues Plenty Clouds’ storyline. Brings Plenty was…
On the Shelf The Talent By Daniel D’AddarioGallery/Scout Press: 336 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The ingénue. The trainwreck. The British stage actor. The matriarch. The underdog. These are the archetypes at the heart of Variety correspondent Daniel…
Wu-Tang is for the children, but as a touring act, it’s soon to be for the history books. The era-defining New York rap group announced its final North American tour on Monday. The tour will kick off June 6 in Baltimore and wrap up July 18 in Philadelphia. “Wu-Tang Clan has shown the world many…
Never question the way Hollywood loves a good old biopic. After all, the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, provides all the proof you need. Not only did lead actor go to Jamie Foxx for playing Ray Charles in “Ray,” but the supporting actress win…
Actors will dress to impress at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. All eyes will be on Demi Moore, who’s not only the favorite in the female lead actor category, but a favorite on the red carpet. From her Swarovski-adorned custom Armani Privé strapless gown at the Golden Globe Awards to her lace-up…
Now that we’ve passed “peak talking about peak TV,” and the streamers have settled down to producing a seemingly endless round of expensive thrillers, the particular charms of bread-and-butter broadcast television are coming back into focus. Of course, we consume these things differently since streaming took over the world, and arguably since man first learned…
Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were hassling them. They took to calling themselves the Pirus, after the tiny street where they grew up, and eventually formed one…
For “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer, the Trump administration and its rollout of anti-transgender executive orders now has her mulling the possibility of “having to out myself to Border Patrol agents” as she revealed her new passport misgenders her. In a TikTok video shared Thursday, the 26-year-old “Cuckoo” and “Kinds of Kindness” actor showed off her…
Thirty years after his breakout as a Sundance darling with “The Brothers McMullen,” Edward Burns may have faded from view as an indie troubadour of middle-class mores, family fractures and romantic entanglements. But the writer-director-star is still wholly committed to his East Coast brand of beige, affable, lightly weathered angst, in which nobody exhibits too…
Forty years ago, the Reagan administration told PBS to find ways to increase funding for public television outside of taxpayer dollars. It did. PBS’ response to the challenge was to enhance the way it acknowledged sponsors. Instead of merely running a company logo before its programming, PBS let corporate underwriters place messages that looked more…
Two hotel workers and a friend of late pop star Liam Payne will no longer face charges relating to the One Direction singer’s unexpected death last year, Argentine judges decided this week. According to a court document reviewed by The Times, appeals court judges on Wednesday decided to reverse involuntary manslaughter charges for Rogelio “Roger”…
Review Notes on Surviving the Fire By Christine MurphyKnopf: 288 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that…
Emmy-winning news anchor Chauncy Glover died with drugs in his system and his death has been ruled an accident, according to the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner. The medical examiner’s office confirmed Wednesday in a statement that the 39-year-old’s death was caused by “acute intoxication by the combined effects of chloroethane and…
This story is part of a zine that L.A. Times Image created in collaboration with Lauren Halsey, Diamond Jones and the Summaeverythang Community Center. The limited-edition zine, printed by -ism, will be at Halsey’s booth at Frieze L.A. For over a decade, Qione Holmes, a.k.a. Hood Historian, has served as the memory bank for L.A….
The Duchess of Sussex, a Los Angeles native, will take a less California-centric approach to her latest lifestyle business. The “Suits” star, formerly Meghan Markle, announced Tuesday morning that she rebranded her American Riviera Orchard (a nod to Santa Barbara) under a more timeless name: As Ever. “Cat’s out of the bag, I’m shocked we’ve…
