Los Angeles seems to be enjoying a mini-trend in the theater these days: two-character battles of wit in which one of those wits is a famous writer. In two different plays on two local stages, a writer clashes with another character over the role of truth in fiction. At the Mark Taper Forum, Donald Sutherland … Read more
My Valley girl accent follows me wherever I go. Long live the ‘likes’ and ‘totallys’ The first and only time I was on national television, I was giving a food tour to a travel TV show host around the San Gabriel Valley, proudly extolling the virtues of Cantonese roast duck, Shaanxi-style stewed lamb and vegetarian … Read more
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email. A success … Read more
Ball Family Farms founder and Chief Executive Chris Ball turned a passion for the plant into a thriving L.A.-based cannabis business. (Photo by Shannon Brown; photo illustration by Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) Chris Ball walks through the cavernous supermarket-size warehouse space with the purpose of an athlete ready to hit the field. He’s … Read more
(Patrick Hruby / Los Angeles Times) This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Dating can feel like a high-wire act. You put your best foot forward, presenting to … Read more
Elon Musk, wearing a T-shirt reading “Occupy Mars,” prances behind Donald Trump at the latter’s recent rally in Butler, Pa. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) The image of Elon Musk that may be dominating people’s mindspace at the moment is of his prancing about joyously — and, yes, a tad weirdly — behind … Read more
Rebel Wilson has married fashion designer Ramona Agruma again, but this time it was in an intimate harbourside ceremony in her hometown of Sydney. Just three months after the pair tied the knot in a lavish affair in Italy, they exchanged vows in a “legal wedding” officiated by her sister in front of their closest family … Read more
Timothée Chalamet, left, and Austin Butler in the movie “Dune: Part Two.” (Niko Tavernise / Warner Bros.) It takes chutzpah to restart your years-in-the-making sci-fi epic in the womb, but after a quick prologue, that’s basically where “Dune: Part Two” begins. The floating fetus, we’re told, communicates with mother and brother not in the typical … Read more
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s four kids look all grown up in new holiday photos. The “Kardashians” star posed with daughters North, 11, and Chicago, 6, and sons Saint, 9, and Psalm, 5, in a carousel of festive snapshots shared to Instagram on Sunday. In the first slide of the post, Kardashian and three of … Read more
7The Town of Palm Beach sent out a police reminder to residents about “opportunistic criminals.” AFP via Getty Images Along with a “Trump bump” in Palm Beach, Fla., for multimillion-dollar real estate deals, there’s also a rise in potential crime, sources tell us. One area insider told Page Six: “Local police in Palm Beach have … Read more
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