Ken Howard, president of SAG-AFTRA and an actor known for his role on TV's "The White Shadow," died Wednesday at age 71.In a statement released by the union, SAG-AFTRA acting President Gabrielle Carteris said: “Ken was an inspirational leader and it is an incredible loss for SAG-AFTRA, for his...
A few of the Caped Crusader's memorable on-screen performances.
When you're on death row, you can either despair or channel your shackled energy in creative ways. Damien Echols chose the latter, learning the disciplines of magic and meditation — and art. "At one time I tried to make a paint brush out of my own hair" in prison, Echols said. "Did not work at...
Director Randall Miller, who pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass following the death of crew member Sarah Jones on the set of the film "Midnight Rider," is being released from jail in Georgia after serving just over a year in custody. Miller had been sentenced...
The year was 2004. Google released its own email service named, creatively, Gmail, Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage and George W. Bush was elected for his second term as president. In short, it was a long, long time ago. How long ago? Hugh Grant had just made “Love Actually,” Renée Zellweger...
One Direction famously hated being referred to as a boy band. But if the term didn't fit the mega-popular British group that recently went on hiatus, the problem — at least from the outside — had less to do with the word "boy" than with the word "band." Here was a musical outfit, originally assembled...
Time Warner Cable says it is dropping the price of the Los Angeles Dodgers' sports channel, in the hopes that other distributors will sign on after a long and contentious dispute. But so far there's no telling whether the newly floated price will satisfy holdouts like satellite provider DirecTV. ...
Note: This article was originally published on Sept. 1, 1996. We have republished it in memory of Phife Dawg's recent death. As Phife, who offstage is the most understated member of the hit rap group A Tribe Called Quest, shops for clothes in a trendy Beverly Center haberdashery, he notices that...
Japanese finance and telecom giant SoftBank has invested $250 million into talent and fashion firm WME | IMG. SoftBank teamed with Silicon Valley investor Silver Lake, its private equity partner, for the deal, which is meant to accelerate WME | IMG's global growth through new investments, acquisitions...
Ellsworth Kelly, the renowned abstract artist who died in December at 92, will be posthumously honored by the J. Paul Getty Trust with its highest award, the J. Paul Getty Medal. In a first for the Getty, the annual award ceremony will honor a second medal recipient. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will also...
There’s already a mountain of evidence that Vaughn Du Clark is a hideous, godawful human being and, hence, a fantastic “iZombie” villain. He’s greedy, unscrupulous, power-hungry, heartless and violent. And now he’s all roided up on his own product, the still-in-test-mode Super Max energy drink,...
The Season 10 battles briskly came to a close on Tuesday night, with Christina Aguilera, the only coach with a steal to spare, waiting until the very last minute to use it. (Or so the show’s editors had made it appear. Who can say, for sure?) As the coaches made their final cuts, we were reminded...
Only a few weeks before the opening of its much-anticipated Harry Potter attraction, Universal Studios Hollywood is performing a shrinking spell on your wallet. Over the weekend, the park quietly raised prices up to 20%, pushing its highest-priced daily ticket beyond that of its sister parks in...
Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke out Tuesday night on Time Warner Cable's efforts to end the standoff over distribution of the sports channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Time Warner Cable said late Tuesday that it had cut by 30% the price of the sports channel offered to DirecTV and other pay-TV...
Lionsgate was propelled into the ranks of the major Hollywood studios by young-adult franchises such as "The Hunger Games" and "The Twilight Saga." But the waning appeal of futuristic stories featuring young, attractive rebels has diminished the Santa Monica entertainment company's fortunes. The...
It should be common knowledge that Kent Nagano, who arrived in California this week amid his first U.S. tour as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, is one of the world's most imaginative and important conductors. He headed the Berkeley Symphony for three decades and served...
It looks like a dove. Or a carcass. Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transportation hub, whose soaring main hall opened to the public earlier this month, suggests an approach to architectural image-making right on the border between flexible and opportunistic. God knows there's more going...
Here’s how Amanda Seyfried’s art world wish — to be transformed by Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden into a caricature-on-canvas “with blood trickling down my throat and me holding a dead cat” — came true. And where you can view the pop surrealist painting this weekend. In a 2011 “W” magazine interview,...
French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin's "My Golden Days" is both a prequel and a sequel to his 1996 film "My Sex Life … Or How I Got Into an Argument." Though there are elements of the two films that don't exactly line up, both concern the romantic follies and foibles of a character named Paul Dédalus....
Time Warner Cable is floating a proposal designed to end the standoff over distribution of the sports channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers to allow legions of Southern California baseball fans to enjoy Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully's final season in the broadcast booth.Time Warner Cable...
The acclaimed Young Vic production of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," directed by the in-demand Ivo van Hove, is coming to Los Angeles, following recent runs in London and Broadway. The drama is scheduled to open the 50th anniversary season of the Ahmanson Theatre in September. Leaders...
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's program at UCLA's Royce Hall on Sunday could easily have been mistaken for business as usual. There were two beloved Mozart concertos — the Clarinet Concerto in A major and Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor. But Jeffrey Kahane, in his penultimate year as music...
A movie from the leader of the anti-vaccine movement is set to create controversy when it screens at the Tribeca Film Festival next month.On Monday, the annual springtime confab quietly announced that, amid a list of Hollywood-centric talks, it would screen a documentary titled “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up...
Showtime is getting into the binge business. The pay-TV network will have a special launch for its new comedy “Dice” by releasing all six episodes at once — a first for Showtime. See more of Entertainment’s top stories on Facebook >> The full season of “Dice,” a semi-autobiographical series that...
Even with the safety net provided by the coach steal, quite a few worthy singers have tumbled out of “The Voice” Season 10 competition and headed home during the battle rounds. That was certainly true on Monday night’s show, the third night of battles, when the coaches declined to push their buttons...
Margot Robbie is looking for gold in all the wrong places. The bombshell Australian beauty, best known for her work as Naomi in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" has been attached to "I, Tonya," an upcoming biopic about infamous American figure skater Tonya Harding, according to Deadline...
It's not Lorde, but it's not bad. Weeks after the young New Zealander brought the Brit Awards to a standstill with her poignant performance of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?," Jimmy Fallon took a crack at the late icon's ballad for a video posted Tuesday on YouTube. The clip shows the "Tonight Show"...
More than 150 academics, novelists, poets, scientists and other experts of language have descended on San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week to debate the future of Spanish — and whether words such as "selfie" will be admitted into the prestigious Diccionario de la Real Academia (Dictionary of the Royal...
Usher, Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz are among the first headliners announced for the 2016 BET Experience, the network and Anschutz Entertainment Group announced Tuesday morning. For a second year in a row the festival — which is built around the network’s annual awards show — will be stretched across...
Both Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his girlfriend, Kimberly Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), hear a siren’s call to “come away, come away” from their dead-end law jobs and step into the dark side on “Bali Ha’i,” Episode 206 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.” Even though Jimmy gained a generous income, corporate...
Welcome to the season 22 premiere of the long-in-the-tooth yet somehow indefatigable ABC reality contest “Dancing With the Stars,” where you, as fans, can completely be forgiven if you repeatedly said, “Who’s that?” as the celebrity-pro pairs hit the floor Monday night. Indeed, who are these folks?...
"Constellations," the drama by Nick Payne that's had successful runs in London and New York, and "Barbecue," a two-family comedy from Robert O'Hara, will be part of the Geffen Playhouse's upcoming season, which begins in September. The 2016-17 slate, which will be announced this week, will also...
It began with half-whispered words about strength and vulnerability and ended with what amounted to a baptism. In between were confessions, assurances and serious youth-group guitar strumming. Yes, Justin Bieber had come to Staples Center for a pop concert, one with all the pageantry and idol worship...
My, what a guy, that Gaston. During an appearance on the British "The Jonathan Ross Show," Luke Evans and Hugh Jackman were pitted against each other in a grand contest to determine which one of them was the best embodiment of the intimidating specimen that is Gaston, the narcissistic bundle of...
Carriage negotiations between Univision and AT&T have yielded yet another extension. The two sides have another 24 hours to work out a new distribution deal. The postponement keeps Univision's network and TV stations available to U-Verse customers until at least 5 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday.The...
Los Angeles is not the only city that has encased its river in concrete. The Tijuana River, like the Los Angeles River, is a once free-flowing body of water restrained by a cement canal. This bit of engineering has had the predictable effect of flushing water that might be repurposed straight out...
Theater director Martin Acosta’s words nearly leaped off the program: “There’s a silent tragedy crossing my country, Mexico.” That tragedy would be the many thousands of Central American teens and children escaping violence in their home countries and making the dangerous journey to the U.S. alone,...
Fox's "The Passion" scored less than miraculous results in its Palm Sunday broadcast. The semi-live musical, which told the story of Jesus' last days on Earth and was broadcast from the streets of New Orleans, drew a relatively modest audience of 6.6 million viewers and a 1.6 rating among viewers...
“There’s this narrative,” said America Ferrera, “about young women not being inspired by Hillary. And that’s just not the case.” At least it wasn’t in Hollywood on Sunday evening, where a predominantly young female crowd gathered to hear Ferrera, Lena Dunham and Chelsea Clinton discuss their support...
Lionsgate's shares took a tumble after the disappointing opening of its movie "Allegiant" raised concerns about the studio's performance. The stock fell 3% to $21.93 in midday trading Monday on Wall Street. So far this year, the shares have declined about 32%. See more of Entertainment’s top stories...
Like so many people with showbiz hopes, Jessie Nelson worked as a waitress when she first came to Hollywood. At the defunct Roy's Chinese restaurant on Sunset, she would hustle for tips and tick off specials, plotting a film career during breaks.Nelson would eventually graduate to more creative...
Here's a bit of heartwarming news to start your Monday: HBO announced Monday that comedian Quincy Jones will headline a stand-up special to air this spring on the premium cable network. What's the big deal? In July, the 32-year-old Jones (not to be confused with the legendary music producer of...
“Zootopia” sprinted past “Kung Fu Panda 3” last week to become the top-grossing animated film ever in China as the mainland’s year-to-date box office topped $2 billion. Disney’s tale of a mammalian metropolis earned $59.1 million in the seven days ending Sunday, data from film industry consulting...
Based on the cold open, I was afraid this would be a solemn, tearful episode of "The Good Wife," but it's not too bad. Alicia and Grace both decide on new paths in life, Lucca gets a promotion, and Cary and Diane defend a father sued for defamation by a gun shop owner. It's certainly a very sad...
Fledgling fighters Dr. Denise Cloyd (Merritt Wever) and Dr. Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt) bravely venture outside the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Tragically, only one returns alive on “Twice as Far,” Episode 614 of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Normally timid psychiatrist turned surgeon Denise insists on...