Eddie Murphy

Some Velvet Painting

Bert Sugar, RIP

'Weird Al' Yankovic Chats About Justin Bieber, Lynwood and Career Longevity, at Gallery 1988

The line stretched out the door and onto the balmy L.A. streets on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose, one of the two spaces set up by Jensen Karp to showcase pop culture-inspired art. Fans waited patiently for a chance to look at and buy work from "Is This Thing On? 2, The Weird Year," with with artis ... More >>

Academy Awards at Theater With No Name? Kodak, Seeking Bankruptcy Protection, Wants Out

Rajiv Patel​This year's Academy Awards are loaded with controversy, and they haven't even been handed out yet. Brett Ratner pulled out of producing the show after uttering anti-gay slur. Then onetime friend-of-the-tranny Eddie Murphy followed him out the door (irony?). Now it looks like The H ... More >>

Texting Til Death: Half of Young Americans do it While Driving

amber10​We here at LA Weekly are a little sick of needless, nebulous state laws that give cops way too much power to conduct fund raising write tickets. Case-in-point: California's retarded texting-while-driving law which, apparently, has done nothing to deter texting-while-driving, but has ... More >>

Academy Awards in Trouble? Oscar Statuette Makers Issue Ominous Statement About Labor Woes at Their Factory

Bring it on down to Oscarville.​The 84th Academy Awards, set for February, has had a dark cloud hanging over it, and the weather doesn't seem to be clearing. After Brett Ratner pulled out of his production gig following his utterance of an anti-gay slur (and Eddie Murphy then exited as host), ... More >>

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Brett Ratner Pulls Out of Academy Awards After Uttering Anti-Gay Slur

Brett Ratner.​Updated at the bottom: Eddie Murphy's out too. First posted at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday. Brett Ratner is Hollywood's douche laureate, tolerated for his frat-boy ways because he makes hit moves. Well, no longer, it seems. The big-budget producer told a reporter during a Q&A promoting ... More >>

Tower Heist Review

Eddie Murphy's 10 Comedy Bits To Avoid as Oscar Host

Flicker/wereswanEddie Murphy's head is about to get bigger as the upcoming Oscar host.​ What a wild idea: Eddie Murphy as Oscar host. On the bright side, it's a relief from James Franco and Anne Hathaway, whose chemistry last February rivaled that of a sasquatch and Kathie Lee Gifford. For t ... More >>

Grazing for Grass-Fed Beef at the Hollywood Farmers Market

We eat hamburgers rarely.  That is, we eat them cooked rare and not very often, maybe once every few months.  Why so infrequently?  Because commercial ground beef, recalled, it seems, nearly as often as it is not, scares us more than serial killers.  We don't want to end up a sad feature in th ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Cradle Will Rock, Alceste, 100 Days

Also Love Letters to Women, Dangerous Beauty, Camino Real and more

Stage Raw: Alceste

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW REVIEW GO ALCESTE ​ Photo by Nicholas SayaanEuripides' version of a Greek myth serves as ground zero for playwright B. Walker Sampson's surreal comedy about the otherworldly ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Marijuana Brands: In Honor Of Chuck Norris And Michael Phelps, Here's Our Wish List Of Superstar Strains

current.comMichael Phelps goes for gold.​In reaction to such recent honorees as Chuck Norris and Michael Phelps, the Weekly would like to forward to you, our humble and useful cannabis retailers, a list of other celebrities who also deserve their own strains of weed. We know your suppliers ar ... More >>

Salads Are Funny: Just Ask All These Women Laughing Alone With Them

​ Someday, thousands (maybe just hundreds) of years from now, aliens will comb through the bales of dust formerly known as Earth's great cities and find, among the charred furniture and shattered computer monitors, an inordinate number of half-shredded magazines containing advertisements featu ... More >>

I Love You Phillip Morris: Out of the Closet, but Not out in Theaters

Why the funniest, most subversive film of the year — starring Jim Carrey as a gay felon — isn't coming to your local multiplex anytime soon

Where Is The Love for will.i.am aka Zuper Blahq?

Was it the addition of the comely Fergie Ferg? The Justin Timberlake collab? The Saturday Night Live parody? Or "My Humps"? As a native Angeleno, we can remember the days when the Black Eyed Peas were a local hip-hop/breakdancin' act with loads of club cred. Though it was a different direction, we ... More >>

Dom Irrera! Dom Irrera! Hallelujah!

Movie Reviews: Food, Inc., Imagine That, Moon

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

LA People 2009: The Re-Percussionist — Sexual Chocolate

The Crystal Antlers' drummer and wingman might be known to his mother by his birth name, but everyone else calls him Sexual Chocolate

Best Tranny Bar: The Silver Platter

Movie Reviews: The Grocer's Son, Kenny, Space Chimps

Also, Felon and A Very British Gangster

Movie Reviews: Kabluey, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Meet Dave

Also, Homo Erectus, Garden Party and more

Some Stereo Type

On Steven Mikulan's "Back in Black (and Yellow) Face"

Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?

Back in black (and yellow) face

Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the Time" is actually an alternative history suggesting the importance of New Jack Swing to the ancient Egyptians. Hieroglyphics that were o ... More >>

Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

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

Secret Agent Men

How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

Also this week's pick, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Film Reviews: Norbit, Hannibal Rising

Including Norbit, Hannibal Rising,Traffic Signal, and the Ralph Nader documentary, An Unreasonable Man

Norbit

Mercy, Mercy Me

Smokey Robinson steams about Dreamgirls' revisionist history of Motown

Dreamgirls and Inland Empire: Performance Art

Condon’s Dream works; Lynch’s Empire enthralls

Shake Your Jiffy

Western Expansion

Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale to commercial TV

The Funniest Guy On TV

Whip It Good

How To Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues, The Sequel

Shedding Light on the AIDS Blackout

The first-ever national African-American summit on AIDS grapples with the record numbers of blacks contracting the disease

Gotta Ham It to Ya

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ordinary Heroes

Harrison’s Flowers transcends its star power; not so Showtime

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Running on Empty

The Princess and the Warrior and another Dolittle

Trouble in Fairyland

Nostalgia and cynicism in Shrek

First Lady

The queen of comedy gets big laughs

I, Too, Sing Hollywood

Four women on race, art and making movies

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

The Total Filmmaker

Steve Martin's beautiful losers

Public Jocks, Private Dicks

Plus, Eddie Murphy's The PJ's and Scott Adams' Dilbert

Disney's Asia Minor

The studio paints by numbers

The New Hollywood Sinkhole