Classic Hollywood: Margaret O'Brien, Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn and Sabu
This is Susan King, veteran movie reporter at the Los Angeles Times and guardian of the Golden Age of Hollywood galaxy. Every Friday in my Classic Hollywood newsletter, I get to talk about everything...
View ArticleHow Steven Yeun Kept His Big Walking Dead Secret
Spoilers for The Walking Dead are below, but you know you already know what this story is about. Generally, The Walking Dead Cliffhanger Card lasts for the week between episodes, or the months between...
View ArticleMum’s the word
This is Sonali Bendre’s first book, and perhaps the first time that the actor has allowed her fans a glimpse of her private life. In “The Modern Gurukul: My Experiment with Parenting” (Ebury Press,...
View ArticleJohnny Depp describes his 'darkest period' on The Graham Norton Show
Johnny Depp has revealed 'the darkest period of his life' was when his daughter spent time at London's Great Ormond Street with kidney failure. During an appearance on the Graham Norton Show, the...
View ArticleYoung women selling sex for the price of a sandwich in Greece
Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study...
View Article'A Very Murray Christmas,' Charlie Brown's 50th and 'The Wiz' top this week's...
Bill Harris' TV must-sees for the week of Nov. 29 1. A Very Murray Christmas Debut Written by Mitch Glazer, Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola, and directed by Coppola, this is kind of an homage to variety...
View ArticleOn top of her game
Hollywood diaries Julia Roberts was meant to be a man, at least in her new movie, Secret in Their Eyes. Her character in this noirish murder thriller was written as a man who loses his wife. That’s how...
View Article100 Women 2015: How can we stop unconscious bias?
We can't avoid making snap decisions about other people. Who is powerful or weak? Who is caring or aggressive? Who is trustworthy and who is competent? This is called unconscious bias and this cartoon...
View ArticleMort Sahl, father of political comedy, still has the stage
A jazz pianist keeps playing, the slow journey continuing, until the comic stops and turns to the crowd. When Sahl took the stage at the hungry i nightclub in 1953 with a newspaper in his hand, he...
View ArticleNew releases: Documentary reveals talent and problems of ill-fated star Amy...
Amy Lionsgate, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99 It's been a great decade for music documentaries, and director Asif Kapadia's is one of the best of the bunch: an at times disturbingly intimate look at the life...
View ArticleHow to Answer the Nasty Little Question Buyers and Interviewers Love to Ask
There is one question that often strikes fear in both sales people and job candidates. For this reason, I call it the "nasty little question." In sales situations, this question usually takes the form...
View Article‘Men in Black 4’ Will Add Female Agent; Producers Discuss Will Smith Return
The producers of “Men in Black 4” hopes to reinvigorate the franchise by adding a female agent to the mix. According to the BBC,...
View ArticleWhy John Cena Is Leaving The WWE For Reality TV
Well this is quite the surprise. But, at least well still be able to see him on TV. John Cena, WWE superstar-turned-actor, is leaving the wrestling world for the first time in 13 years. The reason for...
View ArticleHow Space Sex Would Suck, As Explained By Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I dont think Han Solo ever had this problem. Everyones favorite astrophysicist weighs in on how complicated makin whoopee at zero gravity truly is. On a recent episode of his successful TV Show Star...
View Article'Fortune Smiles' By Adam Johnson
When a spur-of-the-moment mix-up forces Dongjoo -- a protagonist in one of Adam Johnson’s National Book Award-winning short stories -- to hurriedly defect from North Korea, he acclimates quickly enough...
View ArticleSan Francisco police seek help in mystery of spiked baseball bats
Since Thanksgiving morning, 27 bats have appeared throughout the city changed to poles and parking meters...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie: Women should be proud of their bodies
Angelina Jolie doesn't want to hide her body since her double mastectomy in 2013. Angelina Jolie wants to help women feel proud of their bodies. Share Go To The actress decided to undergo a double...
View ArticleMargaret Cho: ‘If Trump becomes president, the whole world’s in big trouble’
The comic on working with Tina Fey, the generosity of Robin Williams and how US politics got scary...
View Article'Chaplin's Essanay Comedies' took some doing, but it completes the Chaplin...
In less than a year at Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Co. in 1914, Charlie Chaplin had gone from a member of the stock company to one of the studio's brightest lights. He had developed his character of...
View ArticlePakistan voices concern over spike in hate crimes against Muslims
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday voiced concern over a spike in hate crimes targeting Muslims across the world after the horrific Paris attacks, saying...
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