Saturday, June 19, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Comcast-NBC Universal deal gets Mayor Villaraigosa's blessing

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:49 PM PDT


Villaraigosa has given his blessing to cable giant Comcast Corp.'s proposed $30-billion takeover of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.


Television reviews: 'The Gates' and 'Scoundrels'

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Vampires and werewolves trump small-time con artists in ABC's new Sunday-night series.

Vampires and werewolves trump small-time con artists in ABC's new Sunday-night series.


L.A. Film Festival: Susan Seidelman recalls making 'Desperately Seeking Susan'

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Madonna hadn't hit it big yet when she was cast. But by the time the film was released, she had become the Material Girl.

Madonna hadn't hit it big yet when she was cast. But by the time the film was released, she had become the Material Girl.


Terry Crews took an unusual path to 'The Expendables'

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


He's been knocked cold on 'Monday Night Football,' took a stab at a career as an illustrator and was an Old Spice model. Now he's appearing alongside Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis.

Former NFL defensive end Terry Crews has made 30 movies in the last decade and he has his own television series now with "Are We There Yet?" on TBS, but as he was munching on a steak salad at a Pasadena diner on a recent afternoon, he explained that fame is a fickle thing. "The people that recognize me, the ones that stop me on the sidewalk, it's because of that Old Spice commercial. I didn't know the meaning of viral before those commercials came out. I can't get away from those things."


Lakers-Celtics Game 7 draws almost 30 million viewers

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT


Overall, the series averaged about 18.1 million people per game, while last year's finale between the Lakers and the Orlando Magic averaged 14.3 million.


Janelle Monae: 'It's time to redefine what sexy can be'

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The Atlanta-based musician lets her creative spirits flow through song, dance and her Wondaland Arts Society collective, which welcomes all artists into the groove.

The Atlanta-based musician lets her creative spirits flow through song, dance and her Wondaland Arts Society collective, which welcomes all artists into the groove.


Erykah Badu offers an unapologetic 'window seat' to her soul

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:12 PM PDT


Gearing up for Lollapalooza, Lilith Fair and more, the Dallas native has always found new, creative -- though sometimes controversial -- ways of expression.


L.A. Film Festival honors Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Sexual repression is the theme of the Argentine filmmaker's four-film retrospective at REDCAT.

Back in the 1960s, when he was dragging high school chums with him to watch obscure foreign flicks in Los Angeles, David Ansen made a startling discovery.


On the media: Cable and network news contribute to spew criticism about gulf oil spill

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The usual suspect — Fox — has blasted Obama's response, but the president is also being taken to task by the networks and left-leaning MSNBC.

For the better part of eight years, much of the Washington media commentariat made no secret of its disdain for a swaggering, tough-talking president.


Pop music review: Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez dazzles at the Gibson Amphitheatre

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Rodriguez is given multiple encores in a night of sublime music leaning more poetry than politics.

Silvio Rodriguez, the great Cuban singer-songwriter who performed a dazzling set Thursday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre, has the type of lyrical and melodic gifts that transcend ideology, even the bitter Cold War-era rhetoric of U.S.-Cuba relations.


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