Monday, August 9, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Television review: 'Bachelor Pad'

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


ABC brings together 'Bachelor' and 'Bachelorette' losers to plot, flirt, manufacture drama and hook up. Call it a purer vision of reality TV.

You could look at it at as another example of the networks going green. "Bachelor Pad," which premieres Monday night on ABC, is the latest example of reality shows recycling participants from previous episodes. In this case, 19 male and female losers of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" are brought together, "Big Brother" style, to do what they do best: plot and flirt and cry, manufacture drama, do a little armchair psychoanalysis and hook up. In other words, high school without, you know, the learning part.


Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at 84

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 09:02 PM PDT


The husky-voiced actress was honored for her role in the 1963 film "HUD," which also starred Paul Newman. She suffered a series of strokes in 1965 at age 39, then battled back to resume acting.

Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84.


Teen Choice Awards arrivals: Chace Crawford, Lea Michele, Selena Gomez and that guy who played Bristol Palin

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:22 PM PDT


The Teen Choice Awards show doesn't air until Monday, but that doesn't mean you have to wait to see the stars -- plus Levi Johnston -- as they arrived at Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday.

The Teen Choice Awards show doesn't air until Monday, but that doesn't mean you have to wait to see the stars -- plus Levi Johnston -- as they arrived at Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday.


'Rubicon,' hardly a rushing river

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 08:50 AM PDT


The AMC show slowly moved the story forward with sporadic bursts of new information about what David Hadas is trying to tell Will Travers from the grave.


'Mad Men': 'Gentlemen, shall we begin 1965?'

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:07 AM PDT


It's never an accident when a character spills a drink....


The Israeli 'Hurt Locker,' from the inside out

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:37 AM PDT


Times Middle East correspondent Batsheva Sobelman offers some insight on the native reaction to the film.


'Max Headroom' and the digital future of the past

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 08:02 AM PDT


Set "Twenty minutes into the future," the ABC series "Max Headroom" is now 23 years in the past, and on Tuesday, Shout! Factory is releasing all 14 episodes.


The verdict on 'Rent,' as directed by Neil Patrick Harris

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 03:03 PM PDT


Once the enfant terrible of rock musicals, "Rent" has comfortably settled into its doyen status.

Once the enfant terrible of rock musicals, "Rent" has comfortably settled into its doyen status.


'Entourage': Down for the count

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:45 AM PDT


This episode, titled "Hair," saw most of the "Entourage" boys dwelling in their valleys.


'True Blood': What would we do, baby, without us?

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:44 PM PDT


"True Blood" slowed the plot way down in favor of scenes where characters who haven't spent a lot of time together this season got to check in with each other.

"True Blood" slowed the plot way down in favor of scenes where characters who haven't spent a lot of time together this season got to check in with each other.


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