Billy Crystal

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Why Do So Many Movie Characters Get Hit in the Balls?

Being a lucky guy, I've only been kicked in the balls once. How did it rate on the comedy scale? Well, it was funnier than a monologue by Chelsea Handler, but not quite as hilarious as my last screening for colorectal cancer. Yet despite the fact that this act hurts like hell, Hollywood still thinks ... More >>

Five Reasons The Clippers Will Shock The World This Season

There's a future NBA champion being built piece-by-piece at the Staples Center this year. It has a point guard destined for the Hall of Fame, a dominant power forward, a young, outrageously athletic 7-foot center and a shooting guard with no fear, no conscience and no hesitation. I'm talking, of co ... More >>

Nora Ephron Series at the Aero

Post-Oscar Bitching, a Chance to Prove How Young and Hip We All Are

Ew, old people. They're so old! Especially that Billy Crystal. What is he, 105? Get off the stage! In your electric walker! If you buy into the prevailing narrative of the post-Oscars Twitterverse, all Academy voters are elderly, with a quirky fondness for nostalgic moving pictures about moving pic ... More >>

Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO, Thrashed by Anonymous Old White Men in LA Times Roast

Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesHudson takes on the haters.​Half a year into her stint as CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dawn Hudson got a cutting performance review from the Los Angeles Times last weekend. The Times piece is not, at face value, an editorial evaluation of Hu ... More >>

Yelawolf - El Rey Theatre - October 11, 2011

Timothy Norris​Yelawolf El Rey Theatre October 11, 2011 Almost a year ago, Yelawolf opened for Wiz Khalifa at the Music Box to little interest. His modest van was parked next to the headliner's tour bus in the lot. Last night at the El Rey Theatre, though, Yelawolf was in his element. Havi ... More >>

George Lopez Canceled After Less Than a Year of Following Conan O'Brien Late Night on TBS

Lopez, last night.​Updated at the bottom with a statement from TBS. First posted at 12:27 p.m. They say that Latinos are "the help," but this is ridiculous. After Conan O'Brien took over George Lopez's slot on TBS in November, the move was spun as a comedy all-star package, with Lopez coming ... More >>

Summertime and the Movie Is Easy

Nikki Finke, Elusive Hollywood Blogger, Makes Stink About Oscars 'Nightmare,' or the 'Worst Snorecast Ever'

Pwned.​Updated after the jump: Audio of Nikki Finke calling for the resignation of Academy President Tom Sherak! Worlds more entertaining than the Academy Awards themselves this year were the fang-tastic bloggings of celeb scooper Nikki Finke -- a celebrity in her own right, though she's take ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

BEST ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

Nerds Own Largo! The Nerdist Podcast Goes Live with Mythbuster Adam Savage

Erin Broadley(L-R) Nerdists Chris Hardwick, Adam Savage, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray at Largo​That venerable 21st century form of entertainment known as the podcast can be as wonderful (so much variety... and usually, free!) as it is frustrating. With hundreds upon hundreds of podcasts available o ... More >>

Echo and the Bunnymen Play Ocean Rain in its Entirety at the Nokia

Echo & the Bunnymen at the Nokia Theater, Oct. 24. Seeing a maddeningly underrated and undervalued band like Echo & the Bunnymen is a good way to keep the ears and soul in check, especially the day before a cold front from Dublin swoops in to take over all of SoCal, and to remind us who pays for Th ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Los Angeles Invited To Party After Dodger Victory

"We're going to party at my house. We're going to party like rock stars, if you can find my house," yelled an enormous sweat and champagne-covered man to the frenzied crowd at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night. The “man” was Manny. And indeed he is the man right now in this Dodger-crazed City of ... More >>

Herpes Tonight!

Theater Reviews: American Tales, In on It

Also, My Antonia, Herpes Tonight!, and more

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Nasty, Nasty, Nasty

ICM and Ed Limato viciously call it quits

Uncertain Curtains

Theater 2006

Theater and Comedy Listings

For February 10 - 16 cvc

Theater Listings

For February 10 -16, 2006

Theater Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Sentimental Journal

Notes from Billy Crystal�s diary

New Theater Reviews

Seven Days Till a Better You in 2006!

Cowboys and Indians

Gene Autry vs. Southwest Museum: Piracy or preservation?

Old Black Magic

The retro pleasures of Hayao Miyazaki�s Howl�s Moving Castle, plus The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl

Exorcising Demons

Satan Smoke Filters Through Hollywood

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

Mr. Entertainer

Sammy Davis Jr., still going

'Everyone�s Too Stupid!'

Ghost World, plus America�s Sweethearts

Hollywood Squared

Marx's Family, Galileo's Daughter and Socrates' Dog

A few of our favorite reads this year

What It Was

Meltdown Music

The best of '99

''I'm Bullshitting as Fast as I Can''

The Art and Artifice of Beeaje Quick

When Bobby Met Billy

De Niro, Crystal and Two Smoking Barrels

Globular

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