Everybody Loves Raymond

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

Warm-Up Comics Have the Toughest Job in Comedy

Getting sitcom audiences laughing -- by hook or by crook

Phil Rosenthal, Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, on His Journey Through the World of Food

Phil Rosenthal on the L.A. Restaurant Scene, Eating Sushi with James Brooks Grilling Thomas Keller

In this week's feature food story, arts editor Zachary Pincus-Roth talks to Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond about what he's done with all his money. Really. Because the producer, writer and director hasn't just been resting on his Emmys, but has put a lot of that money into local ... More >>

How Mark Malkoff Convinced Kate Walsh, Justine Bateman and Other Celebrities to Let Him Sleep Over

Courtesy Mark MalkoffMark Malkoff, left, gets a bedtime story from Phil Rosenthal, who created Everybody Loves Raymond.​Not wanting to spend thousands of dollars on hotels during his recent visit to Los Angeles, comedian Mark Malkoff instead asked a bunch of celebrities if he could sleep at ... More >>

Patrick Carlyle and Allyn Rachel's Couple Time: A Web Series about Weird Stuff Couples Do When No One is Around

There are few Internet series that have me itching for the next installment, checking the Vimeo page for new videos several times a week and squealing with delight when one's posted. But that embarrassing behavior is exactly what I do with Couple Time. Comedians Patrick Carlyle and Allyn Rachel, who ... More >>

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

CRACK UP, WRITE A CHECK, GO HOME

GO LA: Fringe Artists, Porno Films and Lisa Lampanelli

Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5

Your Placenta or Mine?

Extreme Inner-city Arts Makeover

Arab Adventures in Hollywood

Hip young actors are refusing roles as terrorists and creating their own material

LA Theater 2007: To Play, or Not to Play, That Is the Question

Moments of truth in local theater

Our Inner Freak

Cartoon Network’s creepy and cuddly Imaginary Friends, plus the anti-Carrie single gal of TBS’s My Boys

Celebreality

Jigoku, Spirit of the Beehive

Sex and the Antigirl

Anne Heche finds Men in Trees who like real women

Film Reviews

For the week of April 7-13

Who's Your Daddy, America?

Big Love and Sons & Daughters — dysfunction in two new models

A Prayer Denied

Tensions over youth and money tear asunder a Hollywood church

CBS’s Sharper Image

Are our next Friends on the Tiffany network?

Fox Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night, Whirlpool, The House On 92nd Street

Goldberg and the Guv

Kellerwood

The New York Times’ new editor, Bill Keller, is more at ease talking about Shakespeare than pop culture. What does it mean for Hollywood?

Home Improvement: King Kukulele's Tiki Paradise

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Family Patter

Kindred spirits and sitcoms

On TV

Homicide anatomized, Sports Night's backstage dramedy