Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Demetri Samaha Of Supper Club Accused Of Safety Violations In Wake Of Brazil Tragedy

The L.A. City Attorney's office today unleashed a criminal case against the owners of Hollywood's Supper Club for alleged overcrowding, fire-code violations and "life safety hazards." This is the wake of a tragic fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil last weekend that took 236 lives. Th ... More >>

Five Good Reasons to Not Visit Los Angeles as City Boosters Brag of a Record 41 Million Tourists

The Los Angeles Tourism Board announced that a record 41.4 million people flew, drove, took the train or otherwise traveled to Los Angeles for work and play in 2012. Los Angeles is celebrated as the place to be, with lots of new visitors -- in particular, the Chinese -- streaming into the city. We ... More >>

Gangster Squad Retells the Stories of Better Movies

How an LAPD Homicide Detective Became One of Hollywood's Top Screenwriters

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund Chat About the Movie Adaptation of On the Road

AFI Fest 2012: All Your Basic Questions Answered

Byung-Hun Lee Is a Big Deal in South Korea. But Not in the U.S. Yet.

I was told I was going to meet the Korean Brad Pitt. With that in mind, I walk into the Los Angeles office of CJ Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in South Korea, where I am introduced to Byung-Hun Lee. He currently stars in The Prince and the Pauper-type period piece, Masquerade, w ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Dark Knight Candlelight Vigil at Grauman's Chinese Theater Tonight For Aurora Victims

A candlelight vigil for victims of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado will be held tonight at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The event happens at 8:30 p.m., organizers state. At 9 p.m. lights on the theater's facade and at its forecourt will ... More >>

Uggie's Fire Hydrant Cake: Charm City Cakes West Goes to the Dogs

Uggie, the dog star of The Artist, got a nifty reward when he put his paws in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Monday. It was a cake, the kind a guy dog could really appreciate -- a 2 ½-foot-tall red fire hydrant covered in fondant and filled with dog-style goodies such as ap ... More >>

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Fuck Rodeo Drive: A People's Guide to Los Angeles is an L.A. Guidebook for the 99 Percent

Let the tour buses take the throngs to visit Marilyn Monroe's hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater or to press their noses up to the windows on Rodeo Drive and wander Beverly Hills like they're Julia Roberts. Despite what the entertainment industry would have you believe, the city of Los Angeles ... More >>

The Longest Day Starts at 9 a.m.

The Bizarre Michael Jackson Handprint Ceremony

See also: *Our preview of the Michael Jackson Cirque du Soliel Show *MJ Tribute Concert Rolls Toward Cancellation; Oh, And His Kids Are More Or Less Contractually Required To Attend There was a Michael-Jackson's-kids sighting on Hollywood Blvd, yesterday, as his estate had his hand and footprint ce ... More >>

8 Places in Los Angeles That Might as Well be Occupied

​ The reports that the mayor wants Occupy L.A. to leave City Hall raise the question: if they do have to leave, where would they go? The occupiers have already expanded to obvious places like UCLA and Bank of America Plaza. L.A.'s own Wall Street has been slightly occupied for years now (it i ... More >>

Hollywood Boulevard's Costumed Characters: How I Became One For a Night...as a Stripper Bunny

Hollywood Boulevard stripper bunny​Those people who stand outside of Mann's Chinese Theater in costumes, taking photos with tourists for tips -- do they have a union? Is there some kind of street performers license they need? Are there a bunch of unspoken rules about territory? What it I bec ... More >>

Rave Standoff in Hollywood: Cops Move in to Disperse Crowds That Came to See DJ Kaskade

YouTubeKaskade spins on Hollywood Boulevard.​Updated at the bottom: LAPD detectives are investigating last night's events. A permit service source says organizers had planned to have Kaskade as a big part of the red-carpet festivities. AND EDC's promoter had earlier indicated it was hosting th ... More >>

TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

Strippers, junkies, mummies? Classic

Footprints

Amateur Astronomers Invite the Public to Informal Viewings

The Gizmo Matrix

L.A. Marathon Changes 'Stadium To The Sea' Route To Include Chinatown, Little Tokyo

Ghost TheoryBack in the day, hardcore L.A. Marathoners took to the 6th Street Bridge​The ever-glammer L.A. Marathon just keeps on picking up new tourist-friendly detours. Last year, it snubbed the downtown-centric route it had modified only slightly over many years, instead directing runners t ... More >>

The Chiller Killer

Michael Gargiulo, accused of killing Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend and other L.A. beauties, got close as the helpful air-conditioning repairman

Ronni Chasen: Hollywood Shocked Following Apparent Beverly Hills Murder Of Beloved Publicist

deadline.comChasen was found with five gunshot wounds to her chest.​Hollywood insiders were shocked following Tuesday morning's news that longtime film publicist Ronni Chasen was gunned down in her Mercedes in one of the tonier parts of a tony city, Beverly Hills. "We are heartbroken, shocked ... More >>

Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams

The original art, in 3-D

Across the Great Divide

Via small-form films

Stage Raw: The Habit of Art

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO THE HABIT OF ART By Paul BirchallIf you want to see director Nicholas Hytner's smart and compelling production of Alan Bennett's new drama at the National Theater of Great Britain, you co ... More >>

A Star Is Reborn

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

Images for the Post-Video Age

Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

Rolling Stone Magazine to Open Hollywood Venue Club/Restaurant in the Summer of 2010 (?!)

This just in: Rolling Stone Magazine, the once-venerable music behemoth, is spreading its wings and opening a music venue/restaurant/club in Hollywood, according to a press release we just received. The space is slated to open in the summer of 2010. We're assuming that this is the space formerly occ ... More >>

For Colored Girls: The Sapphire Interview

Stage Raw: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize Theron at UCLA

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonPIETER-DIRK UYS AND CHARLIZE THERON AT UCLA​One of Uys' belles, giving a "blow job" to the ashes of her late Nazi husband. Photo b ... More >>

Matthew Modine Can’t Save the Alpacas

Can anyone save Matthew Modine?

Today in Photographs: August 27, 1964

​Mr. and Mrs. Walt Disney attend Mary Poppins premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater.Steve Young, Hollywood Citizen-News/LAPL

Of Munchkins and George Hamilton

Don't try to find street parking in front of the Knitting Factory between around 10 a.m. and noon today. For one thing, George Hamilton is getting his Walk of Fame star at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard as a 70th birthday present. For another, tough-guy actor James Caan is scheduled to speak at the touris ... More >>

Grauman's Chinese Theater for Sale?

Base image: Carol Highsmith/Wikipedia ​​It may not be a state monument or an historical city-owned property, but Grauman's Chinese Theater is an integral part of Hollywood -- both of its history and its daily commerce as part of the Mann Theater chain. That's why a Hollywood Reporter story is in ... More >>

Tippi Hedren to Appear for Wax Statue -- Scream Test Follows

Madame Tussauds Hollywood, the wax museum on Hollywood Boulevard, is re-opening in August after an extensive housecleaning. Today, foreshadowing its new Alfred Hitchcock exhibit, the museum will unveil a waxwork of actress Tippi Hedren. Hedren, who played the neurotic thief Marnie Edgar in Hitch ... More >>

Today in Photographs: June 26, 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell leave an impression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.LA Times/UCLA

Death of a Munchkin: Mickey Carroll, 89

A flower memorial will be placed today on The Wizard of Oz's Munchkins' group star on Hollywood Boulevard, for Mickey Carroll, who played the town crier in the Judy Garland film classic. Carroll, 89, was one of the last surviving little people who brought to life the Munchkin Land scenes, in which h ... More >>

Today in Photographs: December 18, 1972

Lady in CementAt some point everyone in Hollywood has to get down on all fours. Here Love Story actress Ali McGraw does it in style as she leaves her hand prints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. Slow news day? You be the judge.(Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA Digital Collection)

Missing Hollywood

What's great (and not-so-great) about our old hood

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters and Ingénues

Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Stuff to Do Before Snakes On a Plane Opens

Close to the Ground

John Peterson

HOOPLA

A Shy Lady, croquet and Illegal Art

Screen Test

Seven months ago, the American Cinematheque triumphantly completed its renovation of Hollywood's Egyptian Theater. Now the organization is $2 million in debt. Can it survive?

The Fisher King of Camp

Medea: The Musical and the scholar-clown who created it

Kiss and Tell

Writer-director Tommy O'Haver