Kristen Bell and Leighton Meester reunite for ‘Gossip Girl’ skit at SAG Awards 2025

Xoxo, Gossip Girl. SAG Awards 2025 host Kristen Bell revived her role as narrator of the beloved teen drama series for a hilarious skit that also featured her former co-star, Leighton Meester. During Sunday’s award show, Bell’s “Gossip Girl” voice came over the loudspeaker and said, “Hey everyone, Gossip Girl here. One of my sources, … Read more

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants evidence suppressed — accusing feds of lying to get search warrants

      Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers are pushing to have some evidence obtained during raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Miami suppressed, accusing the feds of lying to obtain the search warrants, new court filings show. The 55-year-old disgraced music mogul’s defense team alleges authorities made “false statements and omitted critical exculpatory … Read more

Column: The Eaton fire claimed her home, studio and this ‘powerful’ piece of Oscars history

Column: The Eaton fire claimed her home, studio and this ‘powerful’ piece of Oscars history Six years ago, midway through the 91st Academy Awards telecast, a walnut Steinway and Sons Model B grand piano took center stage at the Dolby Theatre. After being smoothly propelled from the wings, it stood for a moment alone, its lid … Read more

Oscars flashback: An Oscar for playing an Oscar winner

With “The Aviator,” Cate Blanchett became the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar-winning actress. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Never question the way Hollywood loves a good old biopic. After all, the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los … Read more

Why the ‘war on inflation’ is over — even though the ‘experts’ don’t get it

The war is over: not the war in Ukraine or Gaza – I mean the war on inflation.  Shoppers, understandably, are still freaking out in the grocery aisles, most recently over egg prices. Meanwhile, economists, politicos and pundits continue to sweat allegedly “sticky” categories for goods and services and rising wages – especially after January’s … Read more

Letters to the Editor: Trump’s gutting of the federal government is a disaster. The media should cover it like one

People protest Elon Musk’s dramatic cuts to U.S. government departments outside the Treasury Department in Washington on Feb. 4. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) To the editor: The Times has done a superb job covering the recent fires, with multiple stories on the front page almost every day since those disasters struck. But there … Read more

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