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
Jazz musician John Coltrane playing in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a seminal piece of music history, … Read more
Colman Domingo woke up naturally at 3:30 in the morning on the day Oscar nominations were announced. He was jetlagged, having just returned to L.A. from Europe. He looked up at the moon and felt that, despite the darkness of the fires and the country’s crazy politics and everything else going on — no matter … Read more
The sun rises above Altadena homes that burned in the Eaton fire. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) The Eaton and Palisades fireseffaced entire communities, destroyed thousands of homes and left more than two dozen dead. They also dealt yet another blow to the region’s bookstores, which were still reeling from the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns … Read more
Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas has been an agency executive, studio partner and producer for top stars including Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez over the course of her lengthy career. Now she’s about to become a first-time novelist — with “Sex and the City” and “Emily in Paris” creator Darren Star lined up to adapt her book into … Read more
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