Tuesday, May 25, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


'24' review: The series and Jack Bauer go out on a high note

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The series and Jack Bauer go out on a high note.

In the end, it all came down to Jack and Chloe, surely one of television's most complicated, and unconsummated, romances.


Citing Bono's back injury, U2 postpones its American tour

Posted: 25 May 2010 07:41 AM PDT


After hurting his back during concert rehearsals in Munich, Germany, Bono and U2 have been forced to postpone the sixteen dates on the band's summer American tour, including the two dates at Angel Stadium on June 6 and June 7, the band announced Tuesday morning.


Gauging the future of 'American Idol'

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Ratings are down, Ellen DeGeneres is no savior, Simon Cowell is leaving and this year's contestants lacked spark. Does the show have much left?

Ratings are down, Ellen DeGeneres is no savior, Simon Cowell is leaving and this year's contestants lacked spark. Does the show have much left?


'Lost' finale creates islands of thought

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Some fans adore 'The End.' Others feel no closure. All still have questions.

Some fans adore 'The End.' Others feel no closure. All still have questions.


Lady Gaga's health regime: no to blow, occasional MDMA

Posted: 24 May 2010 10:15 PM PDT


The singer addressed the global panic she caused fans with rumors of exhaustion and an on-stage collapse.


Lohan ordered to wear alcohol monitoring device

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Judge forbids actress from drinking and requires weekly random drug testing after she missed court appearance.

Actress Lindsay Lohan left the Beverly Hills courthouse Monday wearing an alcohol monitoring device and the knowledge that she will be subject to weekly random drug tests and probably won't be able to go to Texas to film a movie.


'Dancing With the Stars': The final three

Posted: 25 May 2010 07:23 AM PDT


The shiny, coveted Mirrorball trophy has assumed its rightful place in front of the judges' table for all to see.


'24': Whatever happened here didn't happen here

Posted: 24 May 2010 11:23 PM PDT


Show Tracker: It was a two-hour series finale that no doubt left hardcore fans of his style of justice wondering why the writers took us down this road.


Jesse James tells 'Nightline': 'I think I wanted to get caught'

Posted: 25 May 2010 07:27 AM PDT


James will break his silence for the first time since his marriage to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock became tabloid fodder.


Television review: 'A Village Called Versailles'

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


S. Leo Chiang's film on PBS touchingly displays how a Vietnamese community picked up the pieces post-Katrina, finding their voice in a quintessentially American way.

With oil from the BP underwater gusher now reaching the Louisiana shore and invading its wetlands, and the livelihoods of the people of the Gulf Coast once again in peril, Tuesday night's broadcast of S. Leo Chiang's "A Village Called Versailles," about the Vietnamese Catholic community of East New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, seems especially well-timed. The details are different — force of nature versus man-made disaster — but each highlights the way Louisianians negotiate both fragile ecology and feckless politics.


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