George Clooney

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Hanksy, the Banksy-Meets-Tom Hanks Street Artist, Tells Us the Secrets to Spoofing Celebrities

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Banksy is so 2010. Hanksy, the similarly secretive street artist and love child of Banksy and Tom Hanks, is reaching his own level of notoriety thanks to his celeb-inspired murals, the subject of Gallery 1988 ... More >>

Obama's Marijuana Moments: Top 5 Stances, Statements And Subterfuges

The Left Coast is rejoicing today after President Obama announced that same-sex couples should be able to marry. And it wasn't lost on us that he made the statement on the eve of a fundraising trip to George Clooney's house tonight in the hills above Studio City. Maybe the timing was intended to he ... More >>

Alex Prager Is Photography's Queen Voyeur

10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

Dustin Lance Black's Play 8, Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt

Clooney, Pitt, Kevin Bacon and Martin Sheen power a fundraiser reading

Brad Pitt to Star as Gay Prop. 8 Judge in Livestreamed YouTube Reenactment of Trial

Is Brad Pitt feeling a little guilty about saying he might have to break his big promise not to marry Angelina Jolie until his homosexual brethren can do the same? The American Foundation for Equal Rights, the plaintiff in California's never-ending court battle to overturn Proposition 8, is announc ... More >>

2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

Em-Barris-ing

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Take the Cutoff

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

Dan Tana's Loses Federal Appeal on Trademark Dispute

Dan Tana's on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood​Dan Tana's, the famous Italian restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, recently lost another round in its dispute with an Atlanta sports bar/restaurant that goes by the name of Dantanna's. This time, the Eleventh Circuit ... More >>

For Chow Hounds Seeking Flea Market Finds

Flickr/ricardodiaz11The Dosa Indian food truck will be at the new L.A. Flea Market next month. ​ Next month, some of L.A.'s finest gourmet food trucks will offer their mobile meals at a venue normally associated with the Dodger Dog. The L.A. Flea Market, celebrating its grand opening at Dodger ... More >>

Up in the Hair: Reitman Blows Off the BAFTAs to Guest Program the New Beverly

Nicole CamposReitman​Writer-director -- and recent LA Weekly guest blogger -- Jason Reitman is in the midst of a banner awards season, his much-lauded George Clooney-starrer Up in the Air having raked in a truckload of nominations and snared more than one win, in particular for his screenplay ... More >>

JIMMY DORE -- MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman Talks Early Soundtrack Influences

Editor's note: West Coast Sound is thrilled to introduce to our blogging world the director Jason Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, has just opened in Los Angeles and New York, and opens across the country on December 25. The movie stars George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, it's true, but like his ... More >>

21st-Century Fox

Movie Reviews: The Box, A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare at Goats

Also, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix the World and more

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

Best Pit Bull Whisperer: Kyle Schwab, Smashface Rescue

That's Not All, Folks: PBS Tackles The Warner Bros. Story

Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight

Herpes Tonight!

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

Snip, Snip

Headed toward a split ending with your hairdresser? A cheater’s guide to some of L.A.’s most seductive salons

Eli Roth: The Torturer Talks

Chatting with Hostel Part II writer-director

Ocean’s Thirteen's Con Job

Who’s zooming whom?

Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

The Lookout: Look Both Ways

Scott Frank’s tender, twisty heist movie scores

Angelina on Angelina, Jennifer and Celebrities These Days

I spent Christmas with my family in NYC, which meant ice skating, a show at Radio City Music Hall, our annual trip to the Museum of Natural History, and spending some QT with my 95 year old grandmother, named Angelina, who we call Nanny. Nanny is a spitfire, and very opinionated about the church, ... More >>

Grind & Bare It

Tori Spelling's Got My Back . . .

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

What is Not Sexy

Victoria's Secret launched its first "What is Sexy" list. (why? your guess is as good as mine) But it leaves me seriously wondering if Victoria has any real secrets at all. I won't argue with their choice to make St. Tropez the sexiest international city, I've never been there, but I hear the chicks ... More >>

Histories of Violence

In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

Strange Love

What happens when Hollywood stops worrying and embraces the GOP

Say It Ain’t So, Mrs. Robinson

The secrets behind The Graduate’s un-sequel

About a Boy

Growing up with Charlie Kaufman

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

Droning Man

Cliff Martinez: The buzz

Dangerous Games: Revisiting George Clooney, Chuck Barris, et al.

L.A.’s Survival of the Sexiest

Encounters: Confessions of a Dangerous Fan

Don't Let Your Meat Loaf

Edited by Kateri Butler

Go! Go! Go!

Steven Soderbergh and his new film, Traffic

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Ella Taylor's Blessings