Angelina Jolie

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities

"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity ... More >>

Iranian New Year Celebrated on Skid Row? Both Sides Know What It's Like to Be Away From Home

See also: *What's It Like to Go to an Open Mic Night...on Skid Row? Here's something you don't see every day in downtown L.A.'s depleted Skid Row: an extravagant and colorful panorama of fruits, flowers, candles, spices and sweets surrounding a mirror and an abundance of goldfish; in other words, ... More >>

Serious Drinking: Discovering Rhone Wines at Decouvertes

Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône is a biennial wine event held up and down the Rhône Valley for four long, thrilling days, involving the systematic tasting of mostly red wine by thousands of eager tasters from all over the world, and the systematic inebriation by same each night. Each day, is roug ... More >>

Miraval Rosé 2012: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Wine Sells Out in 5 Hours

Do you love rosé wine? Do you love Brad Pitt? Do you love Angelina Jolie? Do you love ALL THREE of those things at the same time? Well, hopefully you were among the lucky people who bought one or more of the approximately 6,000 bottles of Miraval Rosé 2012 that went on sale this morning -- and sol ... More >>

Byung-Hun Lee Is a Big Deal in South Korea. But Not in the U.S. Yet.

I was told I was going to meet the Korean Brad Pitt. With that in mind, I walk into the Los Angeles office of CJ Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in South Korea, where I am introduced to Byung-Hun Lee. He currently stars in The Prince and the Pauper-type period piece, Masquerade, w ... More >>

Brad Pitt to Star as Gay Prop. 8 Judge in Livestreamed YouTube Reenactment of Trial

Is Brad Pitt feeling a little guilty about saying he might have to break his big promise not to marry Angelina Jolie until his homosexual brethren can do the same? The American Foundation for Equal Rights, the plaintiff in California's never-ending court battle to overturn Proposition 8, is announc ... More >>

5 Valentine's Day Surprises That'll Get You Laid - For the Ladies

There's less than a week til that holiday we love to hate and much of what makes Valentine's Day difficult to bear is the pressure put on guys to be "the man" and get their chicks some kind of boat or pony to show they love them fo' realz. But spending big bucks on a present that may or may not mak ... More >>

Brad Pitt Upsets Gay Nation, Says Pledge Not to Marry Until Same Sex Couples Can Might Be Off

Mad props to Brad Pitt for creating the best excuse ever not to marry a baby-mom: He said he wouldn't tie the knot with Angelina Jolie until same-sex couples could wed too. High five. (We kid). Except that it would appear Mr. Pitt is wussing out. The gay nation is up-in-arms:

The First Best Picture: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Angelina Jolie and Other Auteurs

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Angelina Jolie Directs In the Land of Blood And Honey

The Serbian war drama reviewed

Four Things to Love About Patrick Warburton

​ Patrick Warburton has a knack for scoring roles that foster pop culture obsession. Back in the 1990s, he played Elaine Benes' boyfriend, David Puddy, on Seinfeld. He went on to star in the short-lived, yet beloved live-action adaptation of The Tick. More recently, you can hear his deep, boom ... More >>

Beverly Hills Botox Bust: Business Doing Cosmetic Procedures Searched After Patients Allege They Were Injured

Someone should be arrested for this.​Those Botox parties you hear about, where you can go get a shot in the lips and look like a Frankenstein version of Angelina Jolie? Well, unless a doctor or a registered nurse under a doctor's supervision is plunging that needle into your Hollywood face, it ... More >>

'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem

© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me.​ The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>

Jane Fonda at LACMA: Barbarella Barbie

Series spotlights the many costumes of a single search for meaning

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

Shannen Doherty on Being a Badass, Her New Book, Plus the 'Badass vs. Bitch' Quiz

​Shannen Doherty has been called a lot of things: wild child, bad girl, and seemingly most often, bitch. It's a label she's carried around for decades, mostly stemming from the antics of what she calls her "Terrible 20s." As far as what she's best known for, it's a toss-up. On one hand she' ... More >>

The Lives of Angie and Johnny

The Tourist gawks at its stars, visits Venice, has twist

Salt: the First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy an otherwise rote movie

Saban Free Clinic Hosts 13th Annual Extravaganza for the Senses Event

The Saban Free Clinic​ When you hear "free clinic," a luxury food and wine event might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But for thirteen years running, The Saban Free Clinic -- which provides free health care, dental and social services to the Los Angeles community -- has been host ... More >>

How Janice Min Can Make 'The Hollywood Reporter' More Like 'Us'

Janice Min.​We were as surprised as you were to find out that Janice Min, the ultimate architect of the tabloidization of the entertainment media (and we mean that in the be$t possible way), was taking over editorial leadership at the ultimate Hollywood-insider's trade paper, The Hollywood Rep ... More >>

Salt (The Movie) Coming Out Next Year: No, It's Not the Kurlansky Book

If you've been web-surfing recently, you may have seen the trailer for the new movie from Sony Pictures titled Salt. No, sadly, the studios have not seen fit to make Mark Kurlansky's epic book Salt: A World History into a movie. Although it would make a fantastic film--if you're a CAA agent reading ... More >>

MR. WILSON AND HIS PROFANE COPS

Changeling: Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer, and the system, in Clint Eastwood's latest

Movie Reviews: Encounters at the End of the World, Finding Amanda, Wanted

Also, The Unknown Woman, Expired and more

Violence Is Golden: Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted

Director's stock rises with action-movie fans

a Boy’s, Boy’s World

Wanted offers all of the fight with none of the guilt

LAFF 2008: Whiskey Wanted

What to make of a film festival that made its name on indie fare now opening and closing with big-budget summer blockbusters from Universal? In fairness, the folks behind the Los Angeles Film Festival have thought that one out, noting that both WANTED and HELLBOY II are directed by critically acclai ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperer

Shooting quietly on the Changeling set

Babes, Bestiality and Beowulf

Zemeckis and company give a lowbrow, high-tech makeover to the eighth-century epic

Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

Love in the Time of Cholera, How to Cook Your Life, Salvador Allende

Best Escape Vittles

Snake, gator and other edible critters at Charlie Brown Farms

A Mighty Heart: Pearl Harbor

A Mighty Heart does justice to Mariane and Daniel Pearl

Loud & Proud

And ghouls on film

Black Celebration

Goth always seems to rear its gloomy head up from the graveyard every couple of years or so, and even though the abundance of the black nail polish and peg legs on every fashionista in town kinda prepared me for its resurrection about now, I had no idea it'd be so blatantly retro-vamp. At least that ... More >>

The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

Putting the Grand in Guignol

WASP, LIZZY BORDEN, INTENTIONAL RAGE, FIFI LARUE at the Key Club, June 4

40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson

Remembering Anne Bancroft

Wet Hankie

Shona Auerbach’s Dear Frankie

Taking the Bait

Getting past the teasers for Taking Lives and Dawn of the Dead

Winona Forever

Landmarks

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic