“Out of Oklahoma” singer Lainey Wilson isn’t from the OK state, but she knows a thing or two about uncomfortably going ho-o-o-o-o-o-ome, as she sings in the summer action movie “Twisters.” “I didn’t live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,” she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by … Read more
Relying on obituaries and census records, the National Post pieced together some of Lucy Brenneis’s lineage. Boissonnault’s office did not dispute the findings Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault rises during question period in the House of Commons on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press OTTAWA — For years, … Read more
Elle Macpherson, author of “Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself.” (Adam Whitehead) On the Shelf ‘Elle’ By Elle MacphersonBenBella Books: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even Elle Macpherson, a model who would come to be … Read more
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer behind the country’s worst peacetime atrocity, will appear in court on Tuesday to argue he should be released from prison after spending over 13 years behind bars. The anti-Muslim neo-Nazi killed 77 people in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, … Read more
Enjoy high tea and watch an abridged one-hour live performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet at the historic Langham Huntington this holiday season. (The Langham Huntington, Pasadena)
The old cliché is true: Offense does win games. Whether the Lions or Bills have enough defense to win a championship will be decided in the playoffs. But, for now, Detroit and Buffalo look like Super Bowl contenders because they boast the Nos. 1- and 3-ranked scoring offenses in the NFL. Shortly after the Lions … Read more
“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. And therein lies its superpower. Its writer-director, Jacques Audiard, chose to tell the story of a brutal Mexican drug cartel lord (played by Karla Sofía Gascón) who undergoes profound changes in midlife — including gender-reassignment surgery — as a romantic, comic, … Read more
A common area at the Hollywood Arts Collective, an affordable housing complex for arts and entertainment workers. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Dozens of tenants at an affordable housing complex for arts and entertainment workers are in rebellion amid a dispute over a rent increase and other alleged issues at the Hollywood property. A … Read more
Cynthia Erivo defies more than gravity It’s an autumn day in New York, which prompts Cynthia Erivo to start singing the opening lines of the jazz standard of that name because, as I learn through our hour together, it does not take much prodding to get Erivo to break out in song. She serenades me … Read more
In her new memoir, Cher writes about how she considered killing herself “five or six times” during the heyday of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.” Getty Images Cher felt so overworked and under-loved by her first husband, Sonny Bono, that she considered jumping off a hotel balcony to get away from him, she writes … Read more
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