April 7, 2025, 8:46am Entertainment
Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, the American Library Association says. Read story
April 7, 2025, 6:03am Entertainment
The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre. He has those classic Hollywood features — instantly accessible, forever unknowable — and when he walks down the street with his co-stars, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, people’s heads turn. Read story
April 7, 2025, 6:02am Entertainment
During a recent episode of “CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five,” broadcast journalist and sports reporter Cari Champion compared Elon Musk to a “Mean Girls” character who crashes a school assembly. The women at the table instantly got the reference; the men did not. Read story
April 7, 2025, 5:13am Entertainment
Let’s be clear: There is too much music at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for anyone to be able to experience it all – or more than a fraction of it over the three days of the festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on April 11-13… Read story
April 6, 2025, 6:05am Entertainment
Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at the Los Angeles Times, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it. The difference now — well, one difference — is we are living in a time without guardrails, when the… Read story
April 6, 2025, 6:00am Entertainment
Yes, Jennifer Coolidge has a pair of Emmys for her work on the first two seasons of “The White Lotus.” But an Emmy or two won’t help you when you’re face to face with Bill Murray and a gun. Read story
April 6, 2025, 6:00am Entertainment
Amber Ruffin isn’t going to perform for the White House Correspondents’ Association’s dinner later this month after the group’s board decided unanimously to un-invite her as its featured entertainer. Read story
April 6, 2025, 5:58am Entertainment
The firm of Forsyth, Carney, Powell and Pressburger likely provided some valuable pro bono counsel to the makers of “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a nicely spooned dose of whimsy that goes down quite well. Read story
April 6, 2025, 5:55am Entertainment
“The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show “Press Your Luck.” The truth is, luck had nothing to do with it. Larson, played here by Paul… Read story
April 6, 2025, 5:45am Entertainment
More than a decade has passed since the release of Disney’s hit adaptation of Judith Viorst’s beloved 1972 children’s book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Read story