They’re the most thanks-giving stars in Hollywood. Morgan Freeman, Octavia Spencer and Brie Larson are among the most grateful Oscar winners in last 30 years, according to a new study. Ahead of the 97th annual Academy Awards show Sunday, gambling news site Play USA analyzed the last three decades of acceptance speeches given across eight … Read more
A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally in Los Angeles protesting cuts by the Trump administration on Feb. 17. (Etienne Laurent / Associated Press) Good morning. It is Saturday, March 1. Changes are coming to this newsletter; read about them below. But first, let’s look back at the week in Opinion. Senators, representatives, ex-presidents, … Read more
(Patrick Hruby / Los Angeles Times) Welcome to March, when Southern Californians start gearing up for colorful wildflower displays blanketing our deserts and hills. Except not this year. Native flower experts predict few if any wildflowers for 2025 because our weather has been too dry. Our spate of rainy winters between 2022 and 2024 have … Read more
Duck for two with jade noodles at Roasted Duck by Pa Ord in Hollywood’s Thai Town. (Laurie Ochoa / Los Angeles Times) Duck in Thai Town, boozy raw-milk lattes in the Inland Empire, goat tacos worth a detour, a new pop-up bakery in Torrance, immersive entertainment dining, trouble in wine country and the Trump administration … Read more
Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, had grown distant from her relatives in the months leading up to her and her husband’s tragic deaths, a housekeeper for the late classical pianist’s mother claims. Keiko, whose last name was not revealed, told the Daily Mail Friday that Arakawa, 64, used to check in on her 91-year-old mother, … Read more
Life in the Bachelor Mansion isn’t all roses, according to contestant Alli Jo Hinkes, who dished this week to The Post about the show’s dirty laundry, some of which she cleaned up herself. What surprised her most was how the 25 women competing for the leading man’s heart are all put up in just three rooms … Read more
They knew he would never be “A Complete Unknown.” Timothée Chalamet’s middle-school classmates predicted his future movie-star status. In eighth grade, the Hell’s Kitchen native was voted “Most Likely to Become Famous” by his class at MS 54 on West 107th Street. They also christened Chalamet, now 29, a “Party Animal” in the school yearbook. … Read more
On Page 37 of “Gorbachev,” subtitled “A Biography,” the reader discovers that Mikhail S. Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was once a yuppie. It happened in 1970, and the author presents his evidence in one paragraph, as follows: “By this time, Michael and Raisa Gorbachev had a baby, a … Read more
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’ Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the violent explosion of hot dense primordial stuff scientists traditionally have thought of as the Big Bang — our universe was in an exotic … Read more
The sunset illuminates the coastline at False Klamath Cove near Crescent City, Calif., in 2016. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: The best thing that the state’s voters and then-Gov. Jerry Brown did in 1976 for California’s present and future generations was to create and empower the California Coastal Commission. We … Read more
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