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Lupe Ontiveros' Family Rips Oscars As Indifferent To Latinos

Updated at the bottom with a response from the Academy. First posted at 9:08 a.m. The family of Lupe Ontiveros ripped the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for failing to include the late actress in its "In Memoriam" segment during the Oscars' telecast Sunday. A family statement signed b ... More >>

Michael Moore Caught Exaggerating LAX Oscars Detainment -- What Else Is New?

First Michael Moore came out swinging on Twitter. Clueless customs officials at LAX had detained an Academy Award-nominated Palestinian filmmaker, he claimed. They "couldn't understand how a Palestinian could be an Oscar nominee." Even producing an "Oscar invite" wasn't good enough. The filmmaker, E ... More >>

Lupe Ontiveros Snubbed By Oscars' 'In Memoriam' Segment; Latinos Mad

It was an Academy Awards in which a movie about a Latino CIA operative who designed the ingenious rescue of six American diplomats from revolutionary Iran in 1979 won "best picture." But that Latino, Tony Mendez, was played by a white guy, Ben Affleck. Can't Hollywood throw brown folks a bone? App ... More >>

Amour and More: How to See the Golden Globes' Five Foreign Film Nominees in Five Days

Armenian Film Festival

The Shrine Used to Host the Oscars. Now it Hosts Steve Aoki Parties

The Shrine Auditorium, once home to the Academy Awards, hosted countless landmark concerts in its prime, but now is less in the spotlight than its rival up Figueroa -- LA Live. Still, the Shrine has found a second life as a hub for L.A,'s rave scene. See also: *Jack White at The Shrine, 8/10/12 *St ... More >>

Be Dead or Be Square

And the Snarky Goes to ...

Yoshiki of X Japan Composes Golden Globes Theme Song?!

Shannon CottrellYoshiki on stage with X Japan at The Wiltern, 2010.​ There's a special treat in store for fans of X Japan planning to watch Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards. This year, the annual award show will feature a theme song composed by none other than the seminal Japanese rock band' ... More >>

The First Best Picture: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

A Better Life: The Music and The Message

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 >>

And the Photoplay Goes to ...

Ethics Fines For L.A. Council Members Garcetti, Huizar, Wesson, Cardenas

Ethics fines for city leaders.​Looks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't the only leader in City Hall invited to this here party. But, unlike other events officials have attended, this one will cost you. Yeah, four City Council members got caught up in ticketgate and will also have to pay ... More >>

#Banksy and the #Oscars: Our Fave Tweets About the Artist and the Big Show Are More Entertaining Than James Franco

OK MagazineBanksy?​Banksy seemed to get more positive buzz from the Oscars on Sunday than James Franco. And the artist wasn't even there. After a few weeks in L.A. in which the British wall painter saw his work taken down, stolen and vandalized, it was only fitting that he would then be dis ... More >>

For Your Consideration: Beverly Hills Hotel's 10 Best Picture-Themed Cocktails A Recipe

Beverly Hills HotelFrom left to right: the Sleepyhead, Woody to the Rescue, Status Update.​ In honor of the films nominated for Best Picture Oscars, the Beverly Hills Hotel's Beverage Manager Anthony Santiago and Beverage Supervisor Robert Rouleau have created an Oscar-themed cocktail menu at ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Oscar Edition

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettyLee Hefter's Oscar tuna tartare​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty. In honor of the Oscars this Sunday: a lovely photo of Lee Hefter's (Spago, Cut) spicy tuna cones. If you go to averagebetty's blog, you can find the ... More >>

Truffles, Caviar & Cupcakes: 2011 Oscar Food Preview Photo Gallery

Guzzle & Nosh​ 1,800 pounds of dover sole. 1,200 Kumamoto oysters. 1,000 spiny lobsters. 500 pounds of smoked salmon. 40 pounds of caviar. 10 pounds of black truffles. 6 Spanish hams. In case you didn't indulge in enough food porn yesterday with Nikita's insane Russian music video, here's a p ... More >>

James Franco Will Be Singing at His "Secret" L.A. Bar--But Where Is It? [UPDATE: We Found It and Tell You Where It Is!]

James Franco: Secret L.A. Bar Owner, Singer (and Hunk, Graduate Student, etc.)​ [UPDATE: We found it, thanks to a tweet by @Vxronica: exact location of James Franco's "secret" bar and his Oscar afterparty, below.] The Hollywood Reporter found an intriguing item during a James Franco interview ... More >>

WHAT COULD BE MORE FESTIVE THAN A DOUBLE FEATURE ABOUT FAMILY VALUES?

HI-LESLIE, HI-LESIE, HI-LO, HI-LO

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

LAPD Chief Beck Says He'll Pay For Oscar Tickets Out Of Own Pocket

​In an apparent bid to sidestep the kind of controversy that has dogged Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's acceptance of tens of thousands of dollars worth of sports and entertainment tickets, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck says he's going to pay for tickets to the Academy Awards ... More >>

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Accepted Free Tickets To Oscars

​The Enterprise Report states that Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck received free tickets to the Academy Awards, attended with a guest and met up there with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who's now the focus of three inquiries into his acceptance of valuable tix to such events. Los Angeles ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Ordered To Appear In Court After Alcohol Monitoring Device Goes Off

​Lindsay Lohan and her attorney were ordered to appear in Beverly Hills court Tuesday afternoon, ostensibly to address the matter of her court-ordered alcohol-monitoring device going off while she was reported at an MTV Movie Awards after-party Sunday night. The court appearance was scheduled ... More >>

JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG

THE MAN WHO GAVE VAN GOGH LINES

THE MOST PC OSCAR PARTY WE COULD FIND

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

Jerry Lewis Oscar Protest Looms

Comedian Jerry Lewis will receive this year's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars ceremony inside Hollywood's Kodak Theater. Outside, however, he may find himself the target of vilification by disability activists. For years Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, broadcast every ... More >>

Brits Diss Kate Winslet's Globes

The Independent UK's sniffing dismissal of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards was harsh enough, but then it went after Kate Winslet with glee for two days running. "It was, by any standards," wrote Judith Woods, "the performance of a lifetime. Swooping emotional glissandos ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Short Cuts

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Oscar's picks for good things in small packages

Will the [Crappy] WGA Deal Go Down?

Don't be surprised if writers revolt over this one

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Everybody in The Fishtank!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Brad Grey's Performance Less Than Golden

Mogul earns scorn, not envy at Globes

Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson

Remembering Anne Bancroft

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

Graydon Carter's Hollywood Ending

Vanity Fair editor reportedly calling friends scumbags on eve of Oscars

Stop Buggering Oscar

A five-point plan for intervention — no one gets arrested

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

It Ain’t Cool

That's Entertainment?

Our Kodak moment

And the Winner Is -- HUAC

Elia Kazan will have the statue, but the victory belongs to the blacklist