Email Author Siran Babayan

2012 Stories by Siran Babayan

• Worst Foot Forward: When Comedy Goes Wrong

  published September 13, 2012

  One man's humor is a another man's horror, and Andy Ritchie has seen enough scary comics to know how to combine the two. When the L.A. comedian... More >>

• Step Brothers

  published September 13, 2012

  Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly's first on-screen pairing in 2006's NASCAR-themed Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby had funnier... More >>

• May the Best Crust Win

  published September 6, 2012

  Recently on KCRW, L.A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold attributed our city's status as a non-pie-eating town to Angelenos' fear of lard.... More >>

• Season's Greetings

  published September 6, 2012

  If you've been disappointed by your favorite TV shows of late (sorry, but even the hunky male cast can't give True Blood back its bite),... More >>

• How to Make It Work for a Living

  published September 6, 2012

  Michael Kors provides the funny sound bites on Project Runway — "She literally looks like she got caught in a tornado of toilet paper"... More >>

• Snarl For the Camera!

  published August 30, 2012

  In the dwindling days of the Annenberg Space for Photography's "Who Shot Rock & Roll" exhibit, Ed Colver discusses his early years as an L.A.... More >>

• Life of Whitney

  published August 30, 2012

  Less than a year after her death in February, the Grammy Museum's latest exhibit, "Whitney! Celebrating The Musical Legacy of Whitney Houston,"... More >>

• Found Footage

  published August 23, 2012

  Now you know where every bad video you've ever watched or made winds up: at the Found Footage Festival. Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher (whose work... More >>

• And the Hairball Goes to ...

  published August 23, 2012

  They can't fetch. They can't lead the blind. They can't fight crime. And if you fell down a well, they couldn't call for help. But no doubt you've... More >>

• Nice Headlocks

  published August 16, 2012

  Long before they made sex tapes and dated celebs like George Clooney, female wrestlers in the 1980s achieved TV cult status thanks to a little... More >>

• Bless the Breasts and the Children

  published August 16, 2012

  Young girls today obsessed with lusting vampires would no doubt LOL if they read Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. The... More >>

• Bad Brains: Band in D.C.

  published August 9, 2012

  If you wanna see a movie that both reaffirms and questions your faith in your musical idols, watch Bad Brains: Band in D.C., a documentary... More >>

• Comedy Bang! Bang! LIVE!

  published August 2, 2012

  Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang!, formerly Comedy Death-Ray, has gone from local podcast to Upright Citizens Brigade staple,... More >>

• Mel Brooks Meets Al Fresco

  published July 26, 2012

  This weekend, the Germans win WWII as the Hollywood Bowl re-stages one of Broadway's biggest shows of all time, The Producers: A New Mel Brooks... More >>

• It's a Black, Gass Gas

  published July 26, 2012

  They may be chubby and not much to look at, but ever since Flight of the Conchords retired and started winning Oscars, Tenacious D is the only... More >>

• Some Velvet Painting

  published July 26, 2012

  Velvet paintings are to art what romance novels are to literature. But unlike a tawdry book, you don't have to read a velvet painting, because a... More >>

• Damn Glam to Be Here

  published July 19, 2012

  Thanks to the 40th anniversary of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, this year so far has seen plenty of... More >>

• YouTube in the Flesh!

  published July 19, 2012

  You've wasted — shhhh! — precious work hours watching Drew Droege, Nadya Ginsburg, Funky Dineva, Jeffery Self and John Roberts on... More >>

• Don Kirshner

  published July 19, 2012

  Even though Don Kirshner was criminally omitted from Kevin Spacey's 2004 Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, and only posthumously inducted... More >>

• Riffing for Dollars

  published July 12, 2012

  Hard to believe the official organizer of our nation's "unofficial pastime" — air guitar — is already 10. For a decade, pseudo rock... More >>

• Our Bluth Period

  published July 12, 2012

  FOX's low-rated, critically acclaimed Arrested Development is making a TV comeback next year, maybe even a movie. Until Netflix revives the... More >>

• Filth Never Forgets

  published July 5, 2012

  Back in the spring, John Waters set out on a hitchhiking trek from Baltimore to San Francisco, getting picked up by a Maryland councilman, a rock... More >>

• Evil Woman

  published June 28, 2012

  Long before Julia Roberts sank her horse-teeth into the role and Charlize Theron took her turn, actress Helen Gahagan in the 1935 film She... More >>

• Train Kept a-Soulin'

  published June 28, 2012

  Hard to believe that in the two years since VH1 aired Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America, both Don Cornelius and Dick Clark have gone... More >>

• International Pole Convention

  published June 21, 2012

  Chris Rock once said that his only job as a father was to "keep my daughter off the pole." He also said buffets at strip clubs were a bad idea... More >>