Saturday, February 20, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Johnny Cash: The Hospice Sessions

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

On 'Ain't No Grave,' it's a vulnerable Johnny Cash, accepting his physical state and making the best of it. Anyone who has lived with the decline of a loved one will feel the raw emotion.

Let me tell you a story about my dad and Johnny Cash. Many American music lovers of a certain age could spin out such a connection; Cash is primary among artists who represent the tough psyche of the post-war patriarchal male, his music exposing the connections between empowerment and violence, pride and repression, that defined an ideal still romanticized long after it became dated.


From Twitter to CBS pilot: 'Stuff My Dad Says' to star William Shatner

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:55 PM PST

CBS has green-lighted a pilot based on the tweets of an angry old man.


KCRW-FM is expected to tap Jennifer Ferro to succeed Ruth Seymour

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

Jennifer Ferro likely will become the public radio station's general manager.

Jennifer Ferro, assistant general manager of public radio station KCRW-FM (89.9) , is expected to be named the influential station's new general manager Saturday, succeeding Ruth Seymour, who is retiring after 32 years in the position.


Sean Penn charged in clash with photographer

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 11:25 AM PST

Penn faces up to 18 months in jail if convicted.


Sometimes it is best to just say nothing, even if you're Tiger Woods

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 11:13 AM PST

Woods did nothing more than reignite the news cycle.


Roger Ebert on Esquire's profile of him: 'I got a jolt'

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:57 PM PST

There are really only two words you need to describe Roger Ebert: indispensable, which would apply to his four decades of brilliant essays and criticism; and indomitable, which would apply to how he's handled his past few years of debilitating physical struggles.


'School Gyrls' on Nickelodeon

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The Nick Cannon-directed tween fest may feel like a thinly veiled marketing ploy, but its girl power spirit shines through.

Like much else in modern entertainment, a new "movie" premiering Sunday on Nickelodeon, is an element in a cross-platform marketing plan. (It is a movie in the sense that it is a stand-alone talking picture, not that it is any longer than your average hour of commercial-filled television.) That's fine: I have no problem with being marketed to across platforms, as long as it's done with verve and personality, and that's the case here. It's not as if show business has been ever an exercise in altruism.


AARP movie awards take stigma out of aging

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro and Sean Penn attend ceremony lauding movies for 'grown-ups.'

It may not have come with months of buzz or a live television audience, but another award program rolled out the red carpet this week and a more than respectable group of A-listers rolled in -- Robert De Niro, Jeff Bridges, Sean Penn and Morgan Freeman among them.


How social games make money: Lessons from Farmville

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:50 PM PST

The Web is fantastic at many things -- e-mail, e-commerce, e-vites, for example. But unless your name is Amazon or Google, making money there has proved elusive.


PREACH IT! Do Tiger Woods' mistresses deserve an apology too?

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST

Not everyone was riveted by the deflated-looking Tiger Woods, who apologized in that closely controlled speech this morning. One of Tiger's mistresses is still sore.


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