Thursday, December 30, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Kristin Chenoweth invites you to a New Year's Eve party

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST


She's in 'Promises, Promises' on Broadway, but she'll be in L.A. Friday in concerts at Disney Hall. Then there's 'Promises' to wrap and a new album and more 'Glee' and, well, whew!

The recent East Coast blizzard has air traffic backed up for days, but several feet of snow isn't about to stop the theatrical juggernaut known as Kristin Chenoweth from embarking on a bicoastal, New Year's whirlwind tour.


An outraged Michael Jackson estate urges Discovery Channel to cancel broadcast of 'Michael Jackson's Autopsy'

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:29 PM PST


Co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate today fired off an angry letter to Discovery Communications president and CEO David M. Zaslav.

Co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate today fired off an angry letter to Discovery Communications president and CEO David M. Zaslav.


Owen Wilson death? A lie. Amusement quotient in a week of death hoaxes? Dead on arrival

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:37 PM PST


This holiday break that has brought a slew of engagement and baby announcements has also brought a ludicrous number of death hoaxes.


WGA finds 'The King's Speech' and 'Winter's Bone' ineligible for WGA awards

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:08 PM PST


The Writers Guild has once again eliminated some of the year's best films because they are not signatories to the guild's Minimum Basic Guarantee.


Brett Favre fined $50,000 for not putting out in Jenn Sterger investigation

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:00 PM PST


Favre won't be suspended by the NFL, but he was fined $50,000 on Wednesday for essentially failing to put out for a league investigation, the Fabulous Forum reports.


The dark is just 'Biutiful' to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Javier Bardem

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST


The director and actor head to murky corners of the mind in their film confronting mortality and human trafficking. It seems to have invigorated them.

As director Alejandro González Iñárritu remembers it, he and Javier Bardem first met at "The Losers Party."


Tuesday night football delivers for NBC and may give NFL something to think about

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:41 PM PST


Thanks to a blizzard, the National Football League got a look at how a game would do on Tuesday night, and the numbers were pretty impressive.


Kinsey Collection still a touchy subject

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST


Indiana University Cinema was created in part as a showcase for its film holdings, but since they include Alfred Kinsey's sexually explicit films and videos, it's a complex issue.

When Jon Vickers was interviewing for his job as the first director of the new Indiana University Cinema, he was told there might be a tricky problem if he was hired.


PBS' 'Robert E. Lee' documentary draws a portrait of a complex man

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST


PBS' 'Robert E. Lee' sidesteps the myths of the Confederate general created by his hero-worshipers, instead finding an ambitious, tormented man reluctant to go to war who went on to cause and sustain major casualties.

From horseback, he gazes out across parks and boulevards all over the American South. He lends his name to high schools, colleges and the iconic Dodge Charger in "The Dukes of Hazzard." To some followers he's "the marble man," born to be made into statuary.


Michael Jackson doctor's defense to focus on second syringe

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST


'Who injected the propofol? That's the issue in this case,' Conrad Murray's lawyer tells judge at hearing.

An attorney for the doctor facing an involuntary manslaughter charge in the death of pop star Michael Jackson indicated at a hearing Wednesday that the defense will focus on a second syringe found at the singer's bedside.


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