Faye Dunaway

Hollywood-Uh, Could-Uh, Should-Uh!

Why Aren't Women Hired for Movie Trailer Voice-Overs?

Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] In 1994, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was signed into law by President Clinton. The law "su ... More >>

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Ming Wong Remakes Chinatown at RedCat, Playing All the Roles Himself

The final scene of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown is the only one actually set in Chinatown. The others take place in downtown offices, fancy clubs, Hollywood houses, or Valley groves. But even though the last scene was shot on location, in the real Chinatown, Spring Street has been emptied of ... More >>

"Making Chinatown": Ming Wong

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Music by Babies

Two exhibitions with Chinatown in the title top this week's list, and both are remakes. One further twists Roman Polanski's already twisted classic film about where incest meets corporate corruption. The other is a sequel to an exhibition that never actually happened.

Gil Cates: He Tamed the Showbiz Beasts

Playwrights on the late Geffen head

Rocket Video, Hollywood's Storehouse for Cult Movies, To Close

RocketHollywood.com​Film lovers, brace yourselves. A prolonged period of mourning is in order, as legendary Rocket Video closes its doors at the end of the month. The independent video rental store has been a fixture in Hollywood for over thirty years, due to its trove of hard-to-find classic ... More >>

How Original: Gay Men Doing Joan Crawford Again

Hey, Mom — You Want Brunch, Too?!

Faye Dunaway Eats An Egg

Many thanks to LA Observed for this one, a remarkable YouTube clip featuring Faye Dunaway in a Japanese commercial by photographer Kazumi Kurigami, in which the legendary actress peels and eats a hard-boiled egg. Does she do anything else? She does not. She does not have to. Faye Dunaway could assem ... More >>

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UP IN THE AIR WITH VERA FARMIGA

She's more than George Clooney with a vagina.

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Diamonds Are For Never

Forget blood diamonds -- for a limited time you can go straight to the color-wheel source and behold the treacherous countenance of a bloody rock -- or more precisely, a blood-red diamond, courtesy of the L.A. County Museum of Natural History. More storied than the Maltese Falcon (well, okay, smalle ... More >>

Joan Crawford: The Eyes Have It

UCLA salutes the brilliant, misunderstood actress

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

Spielberg’s On the Lot Is Now in Session

Wunder-kindergarten

the Host and His Protégée

Tyson Cornell and Erin Levy, Book Soup

Unromancing the Stone

In 2006, the Basic Instinct beauty showed she wasn’t just another pretty face

Star Struck

Anthony Franco just might be the hardest-working designer in show biz

Film Reviews

For the week of March 31-April 6

Return to the New Hollywood: Puzzle of a Downfall Child & Loving

King of the Hill

Thugs on Film

Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real

Life Within the Box

Games People Play: Thy Neighbors Script

Threads to the Social Order

Edited by Kateri Butler

Boozers and Schmoozers

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

Ukie and Me Against the World

Ian Whitcomb’s lotus land

Troubleshooters

Flashes in the Pan

Stage odes to a hard-boiled past

The Churl Can’t Help It

Varla Jean Merman does her very worst

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Of Chimps and Men

TV makes a monkey of itself

What’s New!?

eight tips for bursting your bubble