Friday, October 1, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


Movie projector: 'Social Network' looks strong

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 08:40 PM PDT


"The Social Network" will have a lot more friends in movie theaters this week than the competition.


Guillermo del Toro's 'Don't Be Afraid' has dark whispers, stylish frights

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:55 AM PDT


It's not "The Haunted Mansion." And yet it really is.


Comic-Con will stay in San Diego

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 08:35 PM PDT


Local leaders will pat one another on the back for saving the day and keeping the civic bonanza in the city where it was born more than 40 years ago.


For Tony Danza, teaching is an emotional experience

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


When the actor got his chance to help students, he persisted despite self-doubt. His tears and triumphs are documented in a reality series.

Tony Danza arrives at Taverna Tony in Malibu, one of his favorite spots, and he's moving fast. Casually dressed in a Northeast High School shirt and jeans and sporting a bit of stubble, Danza carries a large black scrapbook in his arms.


Avett Brothers heard banjo's siren call

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The musicians were just a couple of skate-punkers from North Carolina when a pluck-heavy busking tour helped steer them into a rootsier realm.

The musicians were just a couple of skate-punkers from North Carolina when a pluck-heavy busking tour helped steer them into a rootsier realm.


Movie review: 'Chain Letter'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Forward this to five friends or meet a horrible fate of having to watch this movie.

"Chain Letter" is a nonsensical, bloody mess that, well, is missing a few links.


Any Mel Gibson prosecution awaits completion of extortion probe

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Findings on allegations that the actor hit his ex-girlfriend have been given to the D.A. But the Sheriff's Department is still examining whether she or someone close to her tried to extort money from him.

A decision about whether to prosecute Mel Gibson over allegations of domestic violence is unlikely to be made until authorities finish their probe of an alleged extortion plot targeting the actor.


Movie review: 'Freakonomics'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Filmmakers tackle Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's inventive fact-finding book with a documentary that too often sounds like an infomercial.

First came the bestselling book, then the sequel, and now comes "Freakonomics" the movie, a kind of victory lap that both celebrates that success and demonstrates why the work of economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner has become an international phenomenon.


Movie review: 'Let Me In'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT


I'm a big, big fan of " Let the Right One In," the chilling 2008 adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's bestseller about the pale female vampire who is "12 … more or less," and whose budding friendship with a severely bullied boy living in the same apartment complex, with minimal parental supervision, leads to a gory confrontation with his tormentors.


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