Sunday, June 27, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Reality TV kids don't have a safety net

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:14 PM PDT


Labor laws and union rules are not being applied to many. At issue is whether the children are working. It's a legal gray area.

Labor laws and union rules are not being applied to many. At issue is whether the children are working. It's a legal gray area.


'Twilight' fans moon over 'Eclipse': 'It was way better than "New Moon'''

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT


That [film] was 100% better than the other two, said Mariah Angulo, 18, who sported a shirt that read: Team Edward.

That [film] was 100% better than the other two, said Mariah Angulo, 18, who sported a shirt that read: Team Edward."


Essay: Iranians moving past negative depictions in pop culture

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Directors, actors and characters are gaining mainstream acceptance.

If pop culture is a measure of cultural visibility, then Iranian Americans have been invisible for decades. Of course, there was Iran itself, hardly invisible. But as a teenager, I knew my reality, one far from hostage crises and contra trials, was never going to make it pop culturally; in fact, I would have bet my little hyphenated life against the very moment of pop cultural breakthrough we're finally reaching now.


Joe Jackson files wrongful death lawsuit against Michael Jackson's doctor

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:42 AM PDT


One year after Michael Jackson's death at age 50, his father, Joe Jackson, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his son's personal physician.


Pat Benatar for the Sunday Conversation

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The 'Heartbreaker' rocker of the '70s and '80s is on tour and telling her story in a memoir, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place.'

At 57, Malibu-based girl rock pioneer Pat Benatar is as busy as ever. The four-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist behind such monster hits as 1979's "Heartbreaker" and 1980's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is on tour with REO Speedwagon, and her memoir, "Between a Heart and a Rock Place," was released by William Morrow this month.


When 'Twilight' fandom becomes addiction

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Some fans of the book and film series are finding their obsession is hurting other parts of their lives.

Chrystal Johnson didn't think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with "The Twilight Saga" — until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage.


After surviving Iraq, Pine Valley's a breeze

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 05:54 PM PDT


Disfigured and nearly killed in a 2003 land-mine explosion, Army vet J.R. Martinez has become the soap opera world's most unlikely star with his role on 'All My Children.'

Disfigured and nearly killed in a 2003 land-mine explosion, Army vet J.R. Martinez has become the soap opera world's most unlikely star with his role on 'All My Children.'


A hitch in A.R. Rahman's trajectory to global superstardom

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The Bollywood megastar and film composer hoped to capitalize on his 'Slumdog Millionaire' success with a world tour. Then the bottom fell out, thanks to a collapsed lighting rig.

Nobody expected the bottom to drop out on A.R. Rahman's world tour.


George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's Norman Rockwell collections show at Smithsonian American Art Museum

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The filmmakers discuss the painter's influence in 'Telling Stories.'

Early on in Steven Spielberg's 1987 "Empire of the Sun," before the Japanese invasion of Shanghai shatters the privileged world of the movie's young British hero, we see the boy in the comfort of his own bedroom. In the dim room, the mother's face glows as she tucks her son into bed, while the father, reading glasses and newspaper in hand, walks into the room and for a moment leans over both of them.


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