LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amelia Dimoldenberg only needs 60 seconds with Timothée Chalamet. In her decade of hosting the popular YouTube show “Chicken Shop Date,” she hasn’t yet casually, awkwardly flirted with Chalamet over nuggets under bright fluorescent lights. Sunday, though, she might get her chance: Dimoldenberg will be on the Oscars red carpet as … Read more
Tatum O’Neal is not looking back in anger. The actress, 61, said she’s finally ready to bury the hatchet with her ex-husband, John McEnroe, from whom she split in 1992 and divorced in 1994 after eight years of marriage. O’Neal, who was propelled to stardom after winning an Oscar for her role in the hit … Read more
It’s that time of the year when red carpets unfurl, cleavage heaves and the academy recognizes and gilds the cinematic achievements of the year past. The list of nominees in the Best Picture category is ten deep in 2025, including such sunny subject matter as murder at the hands of a brutal military dictatorship, incarcerated … Read more
Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa‘s bodies showed no sign of “external trauma.” After the couple were found dead in their New Mexico home Wednesday, they were “transported to the Office of the Medical Investigator,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a news release. “An autopsy was performed,” the statement, obtained by The … Read more
When he made his first film, “Forced Landing on Planet Eggatron,” Hoyt Yeatman created characters out of blown-out eggs with pipe-cleaner limbs. He was only 8. Now his work is mostly digital. But the visual effects expert, who won an Oscar in 1989 for “The Abyss,” still jumps at any opportunity to tinker. So he … Read more
Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in Long Beach Opera’s “El Relicario de Los Animales” at Heritage Square Museum in L.A. (J.J. Geiger / Long Beach Opera) Los Angeles is no opera oasis in the sense of Berlin or Paris, which have nightly choices. Our opera comes and goes, fickle as flood-drought weather. Right now it’s pouring chamber … Read more
In any given year, what makes for a best picture? Are there clues as to what might win, strewn throughout any given Oscars broadcast? As a matter of fact, there usually are — at least if you know what to look for: a sweep, a director win or even a chance to make history. Still, … Read more
(Los Angeles Times) Reading List 10 books for your March reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your March reading list. Winds of change show up … Read more
“Family” by Spike Jonze, from the California Picture Project (Spike Jonze / California Picture Project) The deer look pensive, almost like they know what’s coming. In “Family,” a black-and-white photograph from director Spike Jonze, two of the animals look straight into the camera while a third looks up at one of them, framed on a … Read more
Heart’s Ann Wilson, left, and Nancy Wilson in New York in 1982. (Gary Gershoff / Getty Images) Half a century after the release of 1975’s “Dreamboat Annie,” Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are set to hit the road Friday night in Las Vegas. The tour, which will stop at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los … Read more
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