Alec Baldwin

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

Rise of the Guardians Review: With Alec Baldwin as the Voice of Santa Claus, What's Not to Like?

Top 10 Famous Vegans, 2012 Edition

Nearly one year has gone by since our first list of Top 10 Famous Vegans caused an outright internet vegan-type revolution. Well, not really. But plenty of readers didn't shy away from outrightly hating or loving the list, so we thought we'd catalog a few more for 2012. The obligatory public figures ... More >>

The Campaign Review: Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis in an Amusing but Toothless Satire

Watch This Now: Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is the name of Jerry Seinfeld's new web series, and, as the title suggests, is about comedians (plus Alec Baldwin) getting into cars to get coffee. And to tell jokes and stories and laugh over coffee, presumably, as we all do, or maybe should do, and to see what els ... More >>

L.A. City Hall's 'Elephant Awareness Day' Apparently Not Enough to Keep Ringling Bros. Out of Staples Center

Surprise, surprise! Not one month after L.A. politicians wasted time and resources designating August 3 as the city's official "Elephant Awareness Day," the poster corporation for alleged elephant abuse is coming to town. This very evening, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (owned by Feld E ... More >>

To Rome With Love Review

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Kristen Bell's Hosting the CMT Awards? Here Are Five Alternatives That Would Be Even Worse

See also: If You Don't Like Country Music You're a Blue State Elitist It's time for the much-anticipated annual CMT Awards, held tomorrow night on Country Music Television. But even those who don't know much about country -- or think the whole thing is little more than a red state conspiracy -- ar ... More >>

Los Angeles, LAX Rank Among Top Places American Business Travelers Hate

What's not to like?​Among our not-so-dubious distinctions -- worst city in America for traffic, some of the worst roads in the nation -- come a few new ones today: L.A. is a Top 2 city business travelers don't want to go to. And LAX is one of the Top 3 airports they loathe. Yay! Yep. Even as ... More >>

Alec Baldwin Kicked Off American Airlines Flight at LAX For Playing Nerd Game Words With Friends on Smartphone, he Indicates

Schweddy.​Updated at the bottom with Baldwin saying he was singled out by a flight attendant for using his phone. First posted at 4:01 p.m. Monday. Alec Baldwin tweeted today that he was pulled off an American Airlines flight at LAX for playing the uber-nerdy smartphone game Words With Friend ... More >>

Jeffrey Ross, Comedian, to 'Roast' Occupy L.A. at City Hall Tomorrow

roastmastergeneral.comJeffrey Ross will occupy your gut.​The Occupy movement has received wide-ranging endorsements, from Democrats to Communists, Green Party leaders to Alec Baldwin. But what the campers on the lawn of L.A. City Hall really need is an endorsement that will help them endure t ... More >>

Ben & Jerry's Releases Schweddy Balls Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry's​Back in June, those of us whose love for ice cream is rivaled perhaps only by our love for Alec Baldwin were intrigued by the rumor that Ben & Jerry's was coming out with a Schweddy Balls ice cream flavor. Too good to be true, we thought. Just like the rumor that Baldwin was goin ... More >>

Schweddy Balls Ice Cream: Ben & Jerry's Newest Flavor, or A Very Good Joke

Mostly we try and stay away from telephone tag rumor, but this one is just too beautiful not to pass along. Gothamist reports that SNL's Ana Gasteyer has said in an interview that Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company that has brought us Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream flavor, will be coming out ... More >>

TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

Strippers, junkies, mummies? Classic

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Marc Maron

R. Kelly Interviewed by Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy (No, Really): The Highlights

​The current issue of Interview magazine--the celebrities-talking-to-other-celebrities journal invented by Andy Warhol--features an interview with Aziz Anzari-impersonator (and strangest person in the whole music industry) R. Kelly. The interviewer?: indie man of many hats Will Oldham (aka Bon ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

50 Ways New York City Pretends It's Not Shitty

Hate to break it to you​The New York patriots at the Village Voice news blog -- our counterpart on America's crappier coast -- have been tooting their own horn so loud lately that we heard it all the way over here in Los Angeles. So, re: 50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New Y ... More >>

Mel Gibson Allegedly Threatens Oksana Grigorieva's Life In Second Taped Conversation

​This Mel Gibson thing ain't getting any better. Any hopes of him being able to pull an Alec Baldwin (appearing on SNL, starring in a beloved if not under-watched prime-time show) appear to have been dashed by the release of what has been billed as yet another taped tirade against baby mama Ok ... More >>

Patina Caters the Emmy Awards Governor's Ball: 180 Cooks, 4,416 Bottles of Wine, 3000 Lbs. of Chickpeas An Elaborate Brownie Recipe

Patina Restaurant GroupChocolate decadence​ Going to 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Governor's Ball? Well, even if you're not either, about 3,500 elaborately overdressed people will be. This year's Emmy Awards will be held August 29th, and following the event, Joachim Splichal's Patina Restaurant ... More >>

Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

THAT TRACY MORGAN -- HE'LL SAY ANTHING!

Heimlich Maneuvered

A gala at Cindy Landon's honoring a top scientist discredited by his son gets a venue change

Movie Reviews: Cheri, My Sister's Keeper, The Stoning of Soraya M.

Also, Dead Snow, Life Is Hot in Cracktown and more

Movie Reviews: American Violet, Crank: High Voltage, Sleep Dealer

Also, Every Little Step, Lymelife and more

Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summe ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summ ... More >>

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

How the Hell Is It June Already?

What to do in L.A., May 30-June 5

Movie Reviews: First Sunday, Nanking, One Missed Call

Also Running With Arnold and The Pirates Who Won't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie

Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Twin Peaks, Johnny Carson, Larry Sanders and more

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

Battle of the Network Stars

It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

Running With Scissors

Film Reviews

The Funniest Guy On TV

Goodbye to All That

Postcards from an expatriate

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

King of the Hill

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Bully Pulpit

Hollywood’s not-always-welcome role in national politics

Fear Factor

The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

Desert Island Bisque

In Survivor, the Real World meets Outward Bound meets Lord of the Flies meets Esalen meets Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Plus, Alec Baldwin in Nuremberg and a goodbye to The Sopranos’ Nancy Marchand

A Boy's Own Story

Pawtucket, 1975