L.A. Times - Entertainment News

---

• Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time
• Box office: 'The Social Network' on top again
• Live review: Maroon 5 at the Greek Theatre
• Morning Fix: 'Social Network' still doing lots of friending at box office
• Director William Friedkin: 'The Exorcist' cast was ‘a gift from God'
• 'Honeymooners' night at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater
• Movie review: 'Carlos'
• TV review: 'God in America' on KCET
• PBS vows L.A. will get full slate of programs once KCET goes independent
• Movie review: 'My Soul to Take'

Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT The general director of the Los Angeles Opera and the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic meet for a conversation before fans. The general director of the Los Angeles Opera and the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic meet for a conversation before fans.

Box office: 'The Social Network' on top again Posted: 10 Oct 2010 10:05 PM PDT "Life As We Know It" and "Secretariat" come up lame. "Life As We Know It" and "Secretariat" come up lame.

Live review: Maroon 5 at the Greek Theatre Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:55 PM PDT The outfit is more energetic on stage than on the new 'Hands All Over' album. The outfit is more energetic on stage than on the new 'Hands All Over' album.

Morning Fix: 'Social Network' still doing lots of friending at box office Posted: 11 Oct 2010 07:48 AM PDT Also: CBS is on a roll, CNN pleads for patience and PBS says it won't abandon L.A.

Director William Friedkin: 'The Exorcist' cast was ‘a gift from God' Posted: 10 Oct 2010 07:32 PM PDT William Friedkin talks of the ‘madness' that surrounded the horror blockbuster during its original 1973 release. William Friedkin talks of the ‘madness' that surrounded the horror blockbuster during its original 1973 release.

'Honeymooners' night at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater Posted: 10 Oct 2010 09:50 PM PDT Three of the early live sketches from Jackie Gleason's variety show have been restored and will be shown at the theater at the Hammer Museum. How sweet it is indeed. It was Orson Welles who gave Jackie Gleason the moniker "The Great One" when the filmmaker and the comic genius were out on the town one night.

Movie review: 'Carlos' Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Edgar Ramirez amazes as the title terrorist in Olivier Assayas' immersive, involving, five-and-a-half-hour epic, available whole in theaters or in three parts on television. Into a bit-stream world of 140-character communiqués, where two-hour movies are deemed tedious before the house lights go down, comes a defiant "Carlos." This hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius from master French filmmaker Olivier Assayas lets its socio-geo-political tensions twist through two decades, beginning in the '70s, when the infamous, Venezuela-born international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, code name Carlos, stalked his way across Europe.

TV review: 'God in America' on KCET Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Taking a cue from Ken Burns' style of documentary filmmaking, God in America spends a modest six hours taking on the historical role of religion in this country. If you are going to call a documentary "God in America," you are bound to not quite live up to your title, even allowing six hours for the attempt. ( Ken Burns took three times that long just to explain baseball.) Airing Monday through Wednesday on KCET, this is one of those PBS fall blockbusters that strives to swallow a huge topic whole and inevitably manages only a bite, albeit a big, flavorful one.

PBS vows L.A. will get full slate of programs once KCET goes independent Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Orange County's KOCE is likely to become the main area affiliate, collaborating with the region's other public stations. KCET's exit, meanwhile, has angered many viewers. The head of PBS says Los Angeles-area fans of the public broadcasting network shouldn't worry. One way or another, PBS series such as "Sesame Street" and "Masterpiece" will stay on local airwaves, even if they're not on KCET-TV next year.

Movie review: 'My Soul to Take' Posted: 09 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Wes Craven's creaky 3-D horror film stars Rául Esparza as the Riverton Ripper. "My Soul to Take," the first film horror-meister Wes Craven has both written and directed since 1994's "New Nightmare" (and his first picture in 3-D), is a thrill-free snooze that will certainly rank as one of the least — if not the least — effective entries in Craven's nearly 40-year canon of cinematic shockers.

You are subscribed to email updates from L.A. Times - Entertainment News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610