Sunday, March 21, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


Box office: 'Wimpy Kid' scores an upset, 'Bounty Hunter' solid, 'Repo Men' empty handed

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 09:03 AM PDT

"Alice in Wonderland" was, as expected, No. 1, but Jennifer Aniston and Jude Law were overpowered at the box office this weekend by the unlikeliest of heroes.


Bryan Singer: 'X-Men: First Class' needs to be about Magneto and Professor X

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 05:22 PM PDT

It will also detail the beginning of the school for mutants and have younger incarnations of some characters.


SXSW: Spotify, and the delay to reach the U.S. market

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 05:30 PM PDT

The last time a young entrepreneur executed his promise to revolutionize music with computer software, the industry sued him for billions of dollars.


'A Night at Sardi's': Young Hollywood salutes Garry Marshall

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 07:25 PM PDT

Who doesn't know that Hollywood is the Vatican for youth worship? But every once in a while, the food chain flows in reverse.


'Up' and 'The Cove' win Humane Society's Genesis Awards

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 10:18 PM PDT

TV series honored include 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' 'Bones' and 'Family Guy.'


Comedy talent scouts get the joke

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 12:00 AM PDT

But finding comic talent is no laughing matter. It takes a discerning eye and ear.

One in a series of occasional articles about how alternative comedy is fueling Hollywood.


Ed Asner: 'I'm always thought of in Hollywood ... as the resident communist'

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The veteran actor talks 'Up,' FDR, Elvis and more.

Ed Asner is well known to boomers as the gruff editor Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and an eponymous spinoff TV series. With his performance as the voice of Carl Fredericksen in last year's Pixar hit, "Up," Asner, 80, now has many more fans among their kids and grandkids.


Rosie O'Donnell wants back into daytime

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 05:12 PM PDT

Former daytime talk show star Rosie O'Donnell is looking to make a comeback and has tapped two former Warner Bros. syndication executives to lead her effort.


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