Monday, May 16, 2011

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Cannes 2011: A mere 'Footnote'? Hardly

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'Beaufort' put him on the map, cinematically. Now writer-director Joseph Cedar adds to Israel's film renaissance with this look at competitive father-son Talmudic scholars.

Outside it is late Saturday night, just before midnight on La Croisette. Men in tuxedos, drunks in stinking T-shirts, women in evening gowns, bewildered tourists, hunched-over beggars with outstretched hands, Africans selling hats, all of humanity teems on the Cannes Film Festival's central artery.


Fall TV season: Fox unveils 2011-12 schedule

Posted: 16 May 2011 07:46 AM PDT


The Fox network, home to "American Idol" and "Glee," announced its new fall schedule Monday morning, which includes "The X Factor," a new musical talent show from Simon Cowell, and "Terra Nova," an oft-delayed science-fiction drama whose executive producers include Steven Spielberg.


Television review: 'Freedom Riders'

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The PBS documentary 'Freedom Riders' recounts the civil rights protesters who rode south to challenge the region's 'whites only' laws and the violence they faced.

In the cavalcade of American history, there are some stories that can't be told too often. Our collective memory is appallingly short, and it is useful to be reminded that not only are we a work in progress, but also that progress, in the sense of more things improving for more people, can be bloody work. Entrenched interests like to stay entrenched, securing the status quo by means of "the law," which has been written or rewritten to their satisfaction, and the brute force that backs it up.


Classic Hollywood: Nancy Kwan opened doors for Asian actors

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The star of such breakthrough films as 'The World of Suzie Wong' and 'Flower Drum Song' will be honored Sunday at the Chinese American Museum in Monterey Park.

If the 1960 drama "The World of Suzie Wong" — about the relationship between an American painter and a Hong Kong prostitute — had been made five years earlier, Hong Kong native Nancy Kwan would never have been cast in the lead role. Hollywood's Motion Picture Production Code didn't allow portrayals of interracial romance on screen, stating that "miscegenation is forbidden." In fact, miscegenation laws were on the books in some states until the late 1960s.


Box Office: 'Thor' thunders to the top again, hammering 'Bridesmaids' and 'Priest'

Posted: 15 May 2011 10:26 AM PDT


After its thunderous debut last weekend, the 3-D "Thor" again proved to be most popular with moviegoers, collecting an additional $34.5 million.

After its thunderous debut last weekend, the 3-D "Thor" again proved to be most popular with moviegoers, collecting an additional $34.5 million.


Book review: 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan

Posted: 15 May 2011 07:15 PM PDT


Callan's all-but-authorized biography is a flawed look at Redford, especially when he lets the actor, director and environmentalist do the talking.

In Michael Feeney Callan's fawning new biography, we get plenty of the actor, director and environmentalist we already know but only a tantalizing, too-brief glimpse of a young man we almost never hear about: Charles Robert Redford Jr., Angeleno.


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