Sunday, February 28, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


Redeploying gender: 'The Hurt Locker's' Kathryn Bigelow shakes up traditional ideas about men

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:31 PM PST

In 'Hurt Locker' and other films, Bigelow shakes up traditional concepts of what men are and how they behave.


In rainy downtown L.A., a memorial for Marie Osmond's son Michael Blosil

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:18 PM PST

Saturday a tiny memorial could be found on the sidewalk outside the Met apartment building on South Flower Street where Marie Osmond's son lived.


Actors unions move toward joint bargaining agreement

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 05:53 PM PST

Hollywood's two quarrelsome actors unions took a big step toward ending their blood feud and presenting a united front in upcoming contract negotiations with the studios.


'American Idol' finalist Elliott Yamin rattled by Chile earthquake

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:37 PM PST

Mere hours after his performance, Elliott tweeted, "Huge earthquake just now in Chile!!....I swear I thought this was the end of my life!!!!!"


Marie Osmond's son Michael Blosil commits suicide in L.A.

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:13 PM PST

Blosil jumped to his death Friday night from his downtown Los Angeles apartment building.


The good, the bad and the Nazi

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:25 PM PST

For seven decades, films have grappled with fascism's rise.


Black Widow hopes to snare buyer

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The Hollywood Hills villa, built in 1931, has four bedrooms, a media room and a maid's quarters.

Blond bombshell turned Black Widow Scarlett Johansson , who will take over the role of Natasha Romanoff in the superhero film sequel " Iron Man 2" due out in May, has listed her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4.95 million.


Kyle Patrick Alvarez's 'Easier With Practice' finds its way to screens

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The film, about a writer caught up in a phone sex relationship, stars 'Hurt Locker's' Brian Geraghty.

A young man -- a little lost, lonely and confused -- sits in a motel room. The phone rings. A stranger is on the other end. And she wants to talk dirty.


New on DVD: 'Ponyo'

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

Also; "2012," "Fish Tale," "Elvis," "The Beaches of Agnes" and more.


For love of 'Where the Wild Things Are,' director Spike Jonze goes long

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The movie stretches the Maurice Sendak children's book beyond the length of Jonze's usual short-form projects.

Spike Jonze's adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns the slimmest of books -- 10 sentences, 18 pictures -- into a feature-length film. This feat of expansion is perhaps all the more surprising when you consider the director's track record -- in music videos, skate videos, short films, commercials and various off-the-cuff goofs and larks -- as a miniaturist par excellence.


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