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  • Monday's TV Highlights: 'Idris Elba: No Limits' on Discovery

    Monday's TV Highlights: 'Idris Elba: No Limits' on Discovery

    SERIES Idris Elba: No Limits In the premiere of this unscripted adventure series, actor Idris Elba (“Luther”; “The Wire”) attempts to break Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Flying Mile record. Three new episodes follow. 7, 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Discovery Houdini & Doyle Doyle, Houdini and Adelaide (Stephen Mangan,...

  • The cosplay view from the Anime Expo 2016

    The cosplay view from the Anime Expo 2016

    Gundam warriors, League of Legends characters, comic book cosplayers and a bevy of mashups (Samurai Mario, anyone?) crowded the main lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend for the 25th edition of the Anime Expo. Visitors navigated their way through an artists alley for hand-drawn...

  • Michael Cimino, a 'Hunter' in pursuit of an uncompromising vision

    Michael Cimino, a 'Hunter' in pursuit of an uncompromising vision

    It is impossible to mourn the death Saturday of Michael Cimino without confronting the loss of what he and his New Hollywood ilk represented: an audacious, ecstatic, sensuous, deranged and ultimately staggering vision of what the movies could be, and a willingness to pursue that vision utterly...

  • Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band wrap 2016 tour but promise new music is on the horizon

    Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band wrap 2016 tour but promise new music is on the horizon

    Ringo Starr couldn’t have looked more cool, calm or collected. Two hours before he stepped in front of more than 6,000 fans at the Greek Theatre, the ex-Beatle, less than a week shy of his 76th birthday, welcomed a visitor into his dressing room as he relaxed in a chair, dressed monochromatically...

  • 'Finding Dory' continues to outpace 'Tarzan' and 'The BFG' at box office

    'Finding Dory' continues to outpace 'Tarzan' and 'The BFG' at box office

    Tarzan may be king of the jungle, but when facing off against a particular forgetful fish, he’s out of his depths. Disney-Pixar’s “Finding Dory” is cruising toward its third weekend atop the box office, grossing an estimated $14.6 million in the U.S. and Canada on Saturday and on track to earn...

  • 'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies at 77; the film community reacts

    'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies at 77; the film community reacts

    The first tweet came in French, from Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux – that director Michael Cimino had passed away. Fremaux wrote that Cimino “died peacefully, surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him. We loved him, too.” https://twitter.com/THIERRYFREMAUX/status/749329806257430528...

  • Feedback: Why type when you can write?

    Feedback: Why type when you can write?

    Buried within Laila Lalami’s entertaining essay [“The Power of Procrastination,” June 24] are the words “the blank screen.” Therein lies her problem. For years,  well-intentioned friends have urged me to use a computer instead of writing longhand on yellow lined paper, because, they say, “it is...

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