Monday, August 23, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Is Hollywood settling into a prolonged recession of its own?

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:38 AM PDT


This summer the industry may have hit the bottom of the market.


If Jackie Chan says it's good — well, get a second opinion

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The movie star has endorsed tons of products, some of which fail spectacularly. One Chinese newspaper called him 'a man who can destroy anything.'

Judging from billboards and television commercials in China, film star Jackie Chan has never met a product he wouldn't endorse. Travel the country and you'll see the Hong Kong native's handsome visage hawking electric bikes, anti-virus software, even frozen dumplings.


Spike Lee continues New Orleans story

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


In 'If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise,' the director revisits residents' post-Katrina saga with new details like the Saints' Super Bowl victory and the devastating gulf oil spill.

Spike Lee's return to New Orleans for the follow-up of his sprawling post- Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" is just as big and anything but easy.


Television review: 'If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise' on HBO

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Spike Lee's sprawling documentary about post-Katrina New Orleans examines the scars of human mismanagement.

In "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," airing Monday and Tuesday on HBO, Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" to assess what might be called the damage being done by the recovery. He also assesses the actual recovery, the illusory recovery, the psychological recovery, and the assault on the recovery that is the BP oil spill — an unfortunate and unavoidable late addition that, though not specifically related to Katrina or the following flood, fits his larger themes of class war and bad luck and enlarges his portrait of a land that can seem beleaguered by God or cursed through voodoo but which most definitely shows the scars of human mismanagement, corruption and greed. (Lee brings in the Haitian earthquake, as well.)


'True Blood': If everybody's supernatural, then nobody is

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:42 AM PDT


This episode had the feel of a giant faucet being opened, to let out all of the plot points the show's been holding back for a few weeks.


Live review: Rock the Bells still tolls for 1993

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 07:52 PM PDT


Old school's in session as Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest party likes it's 1993 at San Bernardino's hip-hop hoedown.

Old school's in session as Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest party likes it's 1993 at San Bernardino's hip-hop hoedown.


'Entourage': Is that a threat?

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:47 AM PDT


Power struggles were erupting all over the place, and gauntlets were being thrown down left and right.


Michael Been dies at 60; singer was a founding member of rock band the Call

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Been died Thursday of a heart attack at a music festival in Belgium. The Call formed in Northern California in the early '80s and was known its socially conscious, spiritually aware lyrics.

Been died Thursday of a heart attack at a music festival in Belgium. The Call formed in Northern California in the early '80s and was known its socially conscious, spiritually aware lyrics.


With 'Piranha 3D,' Playboy cover girl Kelly Brook shows her teeth

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 06:25 PM PDT


After being fired from a show by the caustic producer, Brook heads to L.A. for a rest and winds up with a steamy role in this summer's 3-D gore-fest and a Playboy spread.

After being fired from a show by the caustic producer, Brook heads to L.A. for a rest and winds up with a steamy role in this summer's 3-D gore-fest and a Playboy spread.


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