Nikki Finke Now

  • Another Nic Cage Stinker At Box Office...

    By Nikki Finke

    So this looks to be the slowest box office weekend of the entire year (and perhaps the worst weekend in 7 years), with Lionsgate's predictable hit man action pic Bangkok Dangerous the only new wide release. And still Nicolas Cage can't attract an audience. It barely opened Friday with a paltry $2.7 million from 2,650 theaters for what should [...]

  • EXCLUSIVE: Sony Locks In Sam Raimi & Tobey Maguire in 'Spider-Man 4'; Studio May Shoot '4' and '5' At The Same Time

    By Nikki Finke

      It's time to end once and for all the rampant speculation. Sony doesn't want any info to leak but I'm told that both star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi will be returning to make Zodiac screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt's script of Spider-Man 4. Sources tell me that Sony has recently locked in both veterans of Spider-Man [...]

  • U4S Questions SAG About Postcard Poll: Guild Assures Response Confidentiality

    By Nikki Finke

    3RD UPDATE: Unite For Strength is still complaining.  2ND UPDATE: See below for the actual SAG National Board motion that was passed out and approved at the panel's meeting. It includes the line about the identifier. UPDATE: Once again the SAG rumor mill is working overtime. Now a message (below) was sent today to SAG National President Alan Rosenberg and SAG [...]

LA Daily

  • Rirkrit Tiravanija and his 'Palm Pavilion'

    By Daniel Hernandez

    The palm trees are laid out everywhere, in rows and clumps, in corners, and all over the structure that from a distance -- with its metal surfaces and elevated floor -- evokes the broken tropical landscapes of war and...

  • Stage Raw: Zombie Joe's Underground Scores in New York

    By Steven Leigh Morris

    The Labor Day weekend's New Theater Reviews are now online at http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-04/stage/also-spider-bites-hands-on-therapy-more/ For comprehensive theater listings, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. ZOMBIE JOE'S UNDERGROUND SCORES IN NEW YORK Nice review in today's New...

  • North Hollywood High or McCain Mansion

    By Jill Stewart

    How hilarious to see Talking Points Memo and other bloggers track down that interesting "mansion" used as a set piece behind John McCain last night at the RNC. McCain must be trying to match, in his own way, the fake,...

Lurker

  • Along the Antelope Valley Freeway

    By Mark Mauer

    Taken in July driving North on the 14. Had there been more time, we could have stopped and gotten a lot more shots - and clearer ones too. Alas, these were taken while zipping along at 70 or so....

  • Kahlo/Obama 2008

    By Mark Mauer

    A couple of nice pieces I've been driving past for months now. Frida Kahlo on Venice and Crenshaw. And Barack Obama on Washington Blvd... a few blocks before the 10 underpass I think....

  • Culver City Graffiti and Art

    By Mark Mauer

    For several months now I've wondered around Culver City on lunch breaks looking for graffiti. There's not a lot, though the construction along the 405 and Sepulveda has sprouted an on-going paint/sandblast cycle. But here are a few I've seen....

Marc Cooper

  • Sarah Speaks -- Once I Was Blind

    By Marc Cooper

    Governor Gidget appeared on screen melting my heart and conquering my soul. That was after The Mayor of America softened me up. Once I was blind. But now I can see. I agree with every one of their points. Black is white. Up is Down. Slavery is Freedom. Arbeit Macht Frei. We are winning in Iraq. The WMD did exist. Saddam was the leader [...]

  • Rudy: The New Pat

    By Marc Cooper

    I was sitting next to Norman Mailer at the infamous 1992 Republican Convention when Pat Buchanan launched his notorious culture war speech. Mailer was wearing blue. Pat's brigades were in gray. When the indoor fireworks went off upon Buchanan's conclusion, for a moment we weren't sure if these were pyrotechnics or rifle shots from the bleachers [...]

  • RNC Day Two -- The Obama Bounce

    By Marc Cooper

    I have to admit that I had a ball watching the RNC tonight. I turned the audio way down and enjoyed the constant HD close-ups of the GOP party faithful. I don't want to engage in too many cliches, but what I saw definitely didn't look like America. It looked, instead, like a predominantly elderly, [...]

Daniel Hernandez

  • Another night with Miss Masturbation ...

    By Daniel Hernandez

    ... And you never know what to expect. Meet Seòorita Masturbaciôn.

  • A labyrinth of glances in a world of immigrants

    By Daniel Hernandez

    "All of us are immigrants," Mexico City photographer Federico Gama surmises in this Reed Johnson piece about "Laberinto de Miradas," or "Labyrinth of Glances," a photo and video exhibit that recently passed through Mexico, D.F. "All of us are in...

  • 'Another life, Another lover': Italo Disco glory by Kano

    By Daniel Hernandez

    This is what I meant when noting, purely as conjecture, that maybe Glass Candy echoes a creepy backbeat by Kano in its track "Etheric Device." It's almost like I don't verification I just like the idea. Kano of course are...

Great God Pan

  • Vehicles of the Ancients

    By Erik

    Attention East Coasters and humidity dwellers: Greenpoint Energyite Brother Mike Paré will be celebrating the release of his new artist book, Vehicles of the Ancients, ths Friday night, August 1 from 7-9 pm at Cinders Gallery (103 Havemeyer betwixt Hope...

  • Soft Sounds for Gentle People

    By Erik

    Dudes are all into soft psych, sunshine pop, and whatever these days. Those English reissue labels can?t transfer the vinyl to CD fast enough. Of course a lot of that stuff bites and that?s why we?re happy that Pet Records...

  • Luv from Big Sur

    By Erik

    Tune in this Tuesday the 20th to WPVM for Ooze Out's tribute to Cluster's first stand/fast land/stash band/mast hand in Big Sur. The last time Cluster came here to play was way back when Kraftwerk first came back and Jean-Jacques...

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  • Party Like A Rockstar: MTV VMAs Take Over LA

    By Lina Lecaro

    After last year's chaotic (if much talked about) ceremony in Las Vegas, MTV has brought the annual celebration of video vamps and hams back to good ol' Los Angeles. The ceremony will be held this Sunday at Paramount Studios, and...

  • Live in LA: Paul Weller at the Wiltern, Sept. 3

    By Randall Roberts

    All photos by Timothy Norris...

  • The Dull Competence of T.I.'s "Swagger Like Us"

    By Jeff Weiss

    I like "Swagger Like Us." Sort of. Its goals are minimal: Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, T.I. and Kanye trade bars about their mutual awesomeness over a sampled hook courtesy of M.I.A's "Paper Planes." The sort of manufactured "posse cut" that's...

Catch of the Day

The Style Council

  • WORN OUT: Kn"it" Girl Diva Zappa

    By Lina Lecaro

    Daddy's off-kilter musical sensibility isn't all that's rubbed off on the Zappa clan. Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet have shown their dexterity with melody (and even some acting), but Frank Zappa's youngest daughter Diva has a craft that's much...

  • 9021-0h Shit, We ARE Old

    By Lina Lecaro

    For those of us who tuned in each week to watch the spoiled brat-a-tat, trendy styling and saucy sexploits of Beverly Hills 90210 from the beginning (18 years ago! ), the premiere of the new version last night wasn?t an...

  • WORN OUT: Sunset Junction Street Style

    By Lina Lecaro

    One just isn?t enough when it comes to trend-spotting at the Sunset Junction Street Fair, and for this edition of ?Outfit of the Week? ( to be posted from now on under the snazzier head ?Worn Out?) we offer a...

Foundas & Taylor On Film

  • Passchen-less

    By Scott Foundas

    The desperation of the Toronto Film Festival to land a high-profile new Canadian film for its annual opening-night gala has rarely been more palpable than in the case of this year's Passchendaele, an expensive exercise in maple-leaf patriotism set before,...

  • In the Beginning

    By Scott Foundas

    As I write this, word continues to pour in from colleagues and other trusted sources that the 65th Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6) has been plagued by swarms of mosquitoes and bad movies. Meanwhile, here in Canada, where the...

  • Cyd Charisse, Dead at 86

    By Mark Mauer

    Cyd Charisse has died in Los Angeles. This scene of her as Fiona with Gene Kelly from Singin' In The Rain gets to me every time. As does this one......

Topless Robot

Joystick Division

Witness LA

  • McCain’s Night: The Selling of the POW’s POV

    By Celeste Fremon

    6:25-ish Okay, suffice it to say that Tom Ridge was honorable with his speech, and told some good McCain stories….. but right now we’ve got…. CINDY: Great video. Great. Very impressive. Made me view her very, very differently—and I suspect will change America’s view of her. Okay, Cindy’s gotten down and dirty [...]

  • Sarah Palin Night at the Republican Convention - UPDATED X 2

    By Celeste Fremon

    UPDATE: Keep in mind as you think about the warm and fuzzy parts of the Palin speech that the good governor slashed funding for transitional housing for teenage mothers and, according to Mudflats, cut budgets for special needs children by 62 percent. More about this in the next few days. UPDATE # 2: [...]

  • Sarah Palin, John McCain and the Politics of Privacy

    By Celeste Fremon

    Look: I’m a mother and among my primary role models as a parent is the female grizzly. (You mess with the cub and I’ll eat you. Simple as that.) Thus, were I running for office, I would do all I within my power to protect my children from the slings and arrows of [...]

Hullabaloo

Direland

  • BERLUSCONI PRIVATIZES CULTURE -- a Letter from Rome

    By Doug Ireland

    The following article was written specially for DIRELAND by this blog's Rome correspondent, veteran expat journalist Judy Harris: Rome -- In what amounts to political sleight of hand, Italy's new brooms are recklessly sweeping away a huge portion of the...

  • DEL MARTIN DIES AT 87

    By Doug Ireland

    I want to send a heartfelt salute to Del Martin on her passing and my condolences to her partner in lfe and in struggle, the equally courageous Phyllis Lyon. [Left: Del and Phyllis in the 1960s] What follows is the...

  • SOCIALISM AND HOMOSEX: An Ohio State historian redisovers an important slice of gay history

    By Doug Ireland

    I wrote the following article for Gay City News, New York's largest LGBT weekly newspaper, in whose current edition it appeared today: Recovering our hidden gay history has been a critically important byproduct of the modern gay movement, and in...

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