Buster Keaton

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The Lone Ranger Is Such Disney Overkill That It Even Wastes Johnny Depp

Justin Bieber - Staples Center - 6/24/13

Justin Bieber Staples Center 6/24/13 Better than... playing with Barbies. What does the Bieber key, an image looming on a giant screen over the audience of girls wearing matching outfits with their friends, signify? Before one could figure it out, the lights in the Staples Center went off and th ... More >>

Jaime Robledo, the Poor Man's Julie Taymor

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews Inside East Hollywood's Sacred Fools Theatre on a recent Sunday afternoon, actor Donal Thoms-Cappello is capering through a bizarre step of percussive, deliberate foot stomps, which alternate with clanking sound effects. "No," a voice from the gloom interrupt ... More >>

Kirk Douglas Honors Burt Lancaster, and a New Media Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 7 The seventh annual Greek Film Festival at the Writers Guild Theater runs through June 9. Friday's lineup includes the U.S. premiere of They Glow in the Dark at 3 p.m. This documentary finds two gay ex-lovers reconnecting after 20 years to m ... More >>

10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012

Hearts Like Fists Brings Comic Book-Style Crimefighting to the Stage

With two well-reviewed shows running in LA at the same time, theater director and writer Jaime Robledo is at a career high. Hot off the success of Stoneface -- the play about Buster Keaton that has been extended this month at Sacred Fools -- Robledo is now tackling a different genre: comic book-styl ... More >>

Is Ok to Spoof the Dead? Comedy Writer Jim Earl's Book Mourning Remembrance Tries It

It is said that one shouldn't speak ill of the dead. No proverb, however, seems to proscribe writing about the dead with a dark, cutting sense of humor and a jaundiced appraisal of their worldly accomplishments. Mourning Remembrance: A Collection of Mocking Obituaries Ripped From the Headlines is t ... More >>

Years of a Clown: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools

French Stewart as Buster Keaton, Back in L.A. in Vanessa Claire Stewart's Stoneface, Plus All Latest New Theater Reviews

Tony Abatemarco's family drama Beautified, at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre, is our Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at Hollywood's Underground Theatre; and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper at North Hollywood's Theatre T ... More >>

French Stewart on Playing Buster Keaton in a New Bio-Play

By the end of his five-year run on the hit screwball sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, French Stewart found himself at a career crossroads. The problem was that his success as the series' hilariously harebrained extraterrestrial with the quizzical squint, Harry Solomon, had in the eyes of Hollywood typ ... More >>

Sherlock, Jr.

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Goodbye Ben Gazzara, Hello Malcolm McDowell

Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: Phineas and Ferb/Penn & Teller Writer On His New Book, a Satire of Satan

​Ever had questions about Hell, Satan or various and sundry demons? Then TV writer Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It will prove most edifying, as it sheds some much-needed comedic light on the da ... More >>

Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as I.D.

Ground beef is not a valid form of identification. Not in Martin County, not in Los Angeles, not anywhere. A Florida man learned this the hard way, when he handed a taco to police officers who asked for his I.D. This was after he had passed out in his car. While sitting in the drive-through lane o ... More >>

And the Photoplay Goes to ...

Have a Deadpan Easter!

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Don't wait for Uncle Boonmee

What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Jaime Robledo's Watson and Jordan Harrison's Futura

Use Your Noodle: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Remake Of The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple

Sony Pictures Classics​ For all the marquee prominence in the title of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop, (slated for release on Sept. 3rd) we only see a kitchen staff shift into high gear once. In the scene, Wang -- the villainous owner of a restaurant located in ... More >>

Delphine: Bouillabaisse and Vine

... at the W Hollywood

Seven Chances

Daddy Long Legs: The Pleasures of Being Kidnapped

The Safdie Brothers stir up New York and family history in their second feature

Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

A thriving year for stage in L.A.

FREE SCREENING, AS THEY SAY, ENSUES

When Silence Is Golden

Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be Violated

He's a Tramp

Stage Raw: NEA and John Fleck, Back Together Again

THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHESIVE THEATER LISTINGS ARE EMBEDDED WITH THE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSAlso at your fingertips, this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupLUMINOUS BIRCHRandy Sean Schulman applies the convention of silent film to live theater. With a group called The Collective, ... More >>

They Say the Lights Are Bright Off Broadway

Hop, Skipping and Jumping around Gotham

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Film

Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

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Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Time Stands Still

TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>

Minsky's and the Art of Burlesque

Dick jokes and pasties in church

Joan Crawford: The Eyes Have It

UCLA salutes the brilliant, misunderstood actress

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"

1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. Best Models to Emulate: Gay steel workers, Andrew Carnegie, Iron Man 2. Not Tweaking When You See a Car Full of Girls How To Avoid Tweaking ... More >>

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