Entertainment

Demonstrators gather Monday in downtown Los Angeles to protest for immigrants’ rights. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Our country was built by immigrants who came here seeking a better life. These immigrants worked hard to assimilate by learning English and flying the American flag. (“Hundreds of L.A. students join … Read more

Then-Vice President Kamala Harris talks to “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker in October. (CBS News) To the editor: The most disturbing news I’ve read is the probable deal to settle President Trump’s baseless lawsuit against CBS for editing choices made for the “60 Minutes” October 2024 interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. To facilitate her … Read more

The DeepSeek app is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing on Jan. 28. (Andy Wong / Associated Press) Last week, the Nasdaq stock exchange — which lists significant U.S. tech stocks — experienced a big drop. This resulted from the Chinese startup DeepSeek announcing that it had developed an artificial intelligence model that performs … Read more

Donald Trump and Elon Musk, seen in November at a launch of a spacecraft built by Musk’s SpaceX: Can their maneuvering survive legal challenges? (Brandon Bell / Associated Press) Here’s a phrase — three words, only eight syllables in all — that’s going to gain paramount importance in the conduct of government policy by Donald … Read more

From left, Neil Young, Graham Nash, David Crosby and Stephen Stills perform at New York’s Fillmore East in September 1969. (Jason Laure / Frank White Photo Agency) On Sept. 20, 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young played the fourth of four concerts over two nights at the Fillmore East in New York City. A month … Read more

Every song and dance in ‘Emilia Pérez’ tells a story — and that was a thrill to its DP “Emilia Pérez,” director Jacques Audiard’s movie musical about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to a woman, obviously has a lot of different things going on. It’s appropriate, then, that Oscar-nominated cinematographer Paul Guilhaume applied a … Read more

How Ukrainian artists channeled their creativity into documenting war Art mobilizes against bullets, bombs and tanks in “Porcelain War,” a documentary about how beauty not only persists amid the wreckage of warfare but serves as a necessary existential weapon of its own. The film, which won the U.S. grand jury prize for documentary at the … Read more

Margaret Cho is photographed at home in Glendale on Friday, January 31, 2025. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) A recent record-breaking “Celebrity Jeopardy!” victory meant Margaret Cho not only got to stan host Ken Jennings, but the pioneering comedian and actor also advanced to the “Celebrity” semifinals on behalf of Friendly House LA, a nonprofit she … Read more

By definition, the Academy Award for adapted screenplay will go to work previously created in another form. But at the 77th Oscars, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, the source material for the five nominees was particularly wide-ranging: a novel (“Sideways”); a short-story collection (“Million Dollar Baby”); a memoir … Read more

The weird, the wonderful, the what-the-heck? These are the elements of so many movies that rarely receive acknowledgement during awards season. Fortunately, the Envy Awards are held (in these pages) every year to honor all of those underappreciated moments. This season, we make sure to give special mention to a medal, a tap dance — … Read more