By Steven Zeitchik and Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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The Sundance Film Festival is often a place where movie actors can try on new guises outside the high-pressure, pigeonholding world of mainstream...
By Randall Roberts
Los Angeles Times
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A year that gave us much exuberant pop music about being happy, shaking it off, keeping it fancy and/or letting go of problems — “the past is in the past,”...
By Aubrey Whelan
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night at the Kimmel Center as Jon Bon Jovi accepted the Marian Anderson Award for his musical and...
With “Four,” One Direction will have issued its fourth album in four years. More radio hits will follow, and the boy band’s latest world tour, announced before “Four” even arrived, will likely...
By Ryan Parker
Los Angeles Times
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Comedian Daniel Tosh is slamming ESPN on his Comedy Central show, “Tosh.0,” accusing the network of stealing his main weekly bit and adding it to “SportsCenter.”
For...
By Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Times
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No one knows who votes for the Hollywood Film Awards. Maybe it’s an unnamed 12-person committee, as Dick Clark Productions programming executive Mark Bracco...
By Rick Bentley
The Fresno Bee
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The three Oscar nominations Jennifer Lawrence has picked up were for the deeply dramatic “American Hustle,” the quirky “Silver Linings Playbook” and the...
By Richard Verrier
Los Angeles Times
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Rocker Gregg Allman has been dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant killed on a film set...
By Susan King
Los Angeles Times
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It’s a change three decades in the making, said the founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival: a real coming of age of Israeli cinema.
“We...
By Rick Bentley
The Fresno Bee
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LOS ANGELES—Welsh actor, Matt Ryan, wasn’t a big reader of comic books when he was younger, something he now regrets as he takes on the title role in “Constantine”—the...
By Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
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Reese Witherspoon started crawling out of the romantic-comedy muck two years ago in “Mud,” aptly titled given the situation.
The actress wasn’t even the...
By Rick Bentley
The Fresno Bee
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LOS ANGELES—David Dobkin looks at film directing as a type of dance: It’s his job to lead his actors while still giving them room to express themselves. In the...
