Saturday, January 2, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


News Corp.'s Fox, Time Warner Cable strike deal to keep signals on

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 04:49 PM PST

Media giant News Corp. struck a new deal that will keep its Fox-owned television stations and several of its cable networks on Time Warner Cable systems.


Famous quotes: They put the words in actors' mouths

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

Writers crafted lines for movies such as 'Sudden Impact,' 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Forrest Gump' to help a scene, but they take on a life of their own in the public imagination.

If music is the soundtrack of our lives, then movies provide the audio track. From "Casablanca" to "Caddyshack," and "The Wizard of Oz" to "Withnail and I," there are some movies that film buffs love to quote. As the American Film Institute noted in 1995 when it selected its 100 most memorable movie quotes, they "evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy."


BBC America's 'Demons' goes the 'Buffy' route

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

BBC America's 'Demons' goes the 'Buffy' route, but not quite as well.

"Demons," which begins its six-episode life tonight on BBC America, is a "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer"-flavored creep show, but with a British male Buffy and an American Giles.


Carson Daly returns to radio in Los Angeles

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

The former KROQ DJ and MTV 'Total Request Live' host says it will be music first, talk second on his KAMP-FM morning show.

Thirteen years ago -- before he became NBC's host for New Year's Eve festivities, before that network gave him a late-night talk show, now in its ninth season -- Carson Daly bolted from what he called his "dream job" as a nighttime DJ at KROQ-FM (106.7) for an even bigger break, hosting MTV's "Total Request Live."


Food Network's 'Worst Cooks in America' gathers the inept

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

Forget the inspirational. New cooking show tries a much different approach.

This should have been Wilhelmina Josephine's first clue that she was a bad cook: Her husband would routinely call the Aliso Viejo stay-at-home mom in the afternoon to ask what she was making for dinner. And then, more often than not, he would tell her he was going to grab something else on the way home.


A presidential 'Iron Chef America'

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

The White House chef teams with celeb chef Bobby Flay versus colleagues Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali in a special episode of 'Iron Chef America' using ingredients from the White House garden.

White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford knows about all about cooking under pressure. After all, she cooks for the leader of the free world. (First under George W. Bush, now under Barack Obama.)


New Year's Eve party report

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:16 PM PST

Who do you think had the best New Year's bash?


Irish singer Van Morrison blames Web hacker for false claim of new baby

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:09 AM PST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reclusive Irish singer Van Morrison said Thursday that a computer hacker planted a false report on his Web site claiming he had fathered a fourth child at the age of 64 with a new partner.


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