George Cukor

From Lawrence to Rambo: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see: Thursday, December 27 The Rambo movies weren't always standard-issue action. One need look no further for proof than First Blood, the first entry in the series--not to mention the only one directed by Ted Kotcheff, whose Wake in Fright enjoyed a deser ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Barbers, Sharks and Treasure

Scotty Bowers' Full Service Claims Old Hollywood Was Seriously Kinky -- Our Investigation Suggests It's All True

It was a real-life Perry Mason moment in the public trial of Scotty Bowers' credibility. In his sensational memoir, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, Bowers claims he procured female lovers for Katharine Hepburn and had threesomes with Cary Grant and hi ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery. You're Welcome.

Copyright Lawrence Schiller​ Life magazine called it "the skinny dip you'll never see." In what would have been Marilyn Monroe's last film role, the buxom, platinum-haired icon frolicked in and around a swimming pool for the unfinished Something's Got to Give in 1962, a remake of the screwbal ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's $5 Million Subway Dress and Debbie Reynolds' Ginormous Hollywood Auction: An Official Bidder's Insider Account

​ Debbie Reynolds held Hollywood's largest garage sale at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills on Saturday. In case you missed it on Oprah, Ms. Reynolds had one of the largest private collections of classic Hollywood memorabilia and most of it was up for grabs this weekend in front of a ... More >>

Everybody Do the "Winkie Chant"!

David J's Black Dahlia

The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

Elektra Luxx

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

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

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

Moonlight and Magnolias

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 >>

Ernst Lubitsch: Sweet Smell of Excess

Escape the New Depression doldrums with LACMA's tribute to the past master of classy Hollywood comedy

A Star Is Reborn

Cukor's original finally makes it back to the big screen

Day 3: Coachella WINs and FAILs (featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Thom Yorke, Phoenix, etc.)!

Gustavo TurnerThe Great Thom Yorke in the Sky​ Sunday was the hottest day of the Coachella weekend and it felt like the most crowded, a change from previous years when (thanks to the one-day passes) the last day had shown a welcome self-weeding-out of the masses. In terms of festival logisti ... More >>

Sexual Politics: Godard and Me

Anna Karina reminisces on life, work and beyond with the writer-director

Anna Karina Speaks (and dances and sings)

​ Talking to David Ehrenstein in today's edition of the Weekly, 60s icon Anna Karina reminisces about her life and work as the wife/muse of French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard (a restored print of one of their greatest collaborations, Pierrot le Fou, screens next week as part of the City ... More >>

LACMA SALUTES JAMES MASON

A look back at the larger-than-life film star.

Valentine's Day Films: We're That Into Catherine Deneuve

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

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

Stage Raw: New Troupes on the Block

NEW TROUPES ON THE BLOCK Under the umbrella of Cornerstone Theatre Company, a new company called Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras (Day Laborer Theater Without Borders) launches at the Hollywood Community Job Center, 5669 De Longpre Avenue; December 20 at noon. The 15-member troupe will voice the s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Babes in Toyland

BABES IN TOYLAND is this week's Theater Pick. Writes Tom Provenzano: "While visions of nutcrackers and victorian misers dance through the yuletide entertainment listings, this production offers a delightful alternative. Forty kids, age 9 to 19 romp, through Alice Hammerstein-Mathias and William M ... More >>

Stage Raw: Your Source for Free and Discount Theater Tickets

FREE AND DISCOUNT THEATER TICKETS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Plays411 is offering FREE & Discount Tickets: You only pay $3.50 Service Fee, or Half-off where indicated. Advance Reservations only: Go to: plays411.com, then select the show, use Promo Code: "LETMEIN" (unless otherwise instructed ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leslie Jordan's Trip Down the Pink Carpet

This Week's Theater Pick Leslie Jordan's Autobiographical Trip Down the Pink Carpet If a zest for life is infectious, there's probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy Award-winning TV actor, and fugitive from the Bible Belt, Jordan regales us ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

>NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

Joan Crawford: The Eyes Have It

UCLA salutes the brilliant, misunderstood actress

Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

The Women

Theater Reviews: The Sequence, Faithful, Two Trains Running

Also, Asses & Elephants, Nihil Obstat, The Women

Stage Raw: Playboy of the Western World

Stage Raw: The Sequence

The Women: Ladies Light

From Diane English, just another chick flick

Film and Video Events

Revival house screenings and other events, Aug. 22-28

Why Won't Warner Bros. Embrace The Women?

It could cash in on the Sex and the City female frenzy

The Late, Great Kate: A Centennial Tribute to Katharine Hepburn

Western Expansion

Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale to commercial TV

Full of Life: The Films of Judy Holliday

On Lambert

Remembering the work of the late screenwriting great

Mainly About Gavin

Gavin Lambert, 1924 — 2005

Soul Mates

Gavin Lambert on his friend and latest subject, director Lindsay Anderson

Women Warriors, Suffering Boys

Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; filming Charles Dickens

Behind the Screen at the Museum

LACMA film programmer Ian Birnie

Graceful Monsters

James Whale -- Renaissance man

Real Country

The farmer's life on Frontline; plus Olivier, retrospectively, at MTR

When She Was Bad

She was very, very good

Female Trouble

From Paltrow to Pickford

Love Among the Ruins

A Long Island delight, a Santa Monica snore