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Halle Berry

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

    If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Something": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Something" History: "Wanna Be Startin' Something" is the fourth single from Michael Jackson's album Thriller (said Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    Academy Award Winners Haven't Included Latino Actors, Nonwhite Actresses in 10 Years

    Updated at the bottom: The Oscars broke the 10-year spell. Only days after the voters behind the Academy Awards were revealed as extremely white (94 percent), male (77 percent) and old (median age, 62), the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center issued a report indicating that Oscar winners seem to r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    10 Creepiest Items Found in the Madonna Stalker's Storage Unit

    Best "Storage Wars" ever. A storage unit belonging to Robert Dewey Hoskins, the crazy dude arrested for stalking both Madonna and Halle Berry (and recently re-arrested after escaping from a Norwalk mental hospital), was emptied out this week because he was so far behind on rent. CBS LA reporters a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Tupac's "Dear Mama": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Our Tupac Week coverage from earlier this year. Song: Tupac's "Dear Mama" Background: "Dear Mama" is Tupac's most beloved song. It is considered to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

    The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Mirabelle Restaurant: 40th Anniversary Gala This Week

    Mirabelle​Mirabelle Restaurant is going all out to celebrate its 40th year in business on the Sunset Strip with live music, a red carpet and celebrities. But this won't be a party just for the sake of partying: Owner George Germanides is teaming with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and donating all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Sex Toy Sales to Rival Smartphone Buys in The Next 10 Years: Stars Like Cameron Diaz Popularize This Booming Lady Business

    Cameron Diaz talks about this stuff. For real.​Ring ring. Who is it? It's your libido calling. It wants a new toy. And not an iPhone 4, either. A British study making the rounds this week claims that sex-toy sales will rival smartphone purchases in the next 10 years. Of course, your pocket ro ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2010

    Slow Soul: The Rise of Neoclassical Soul

    Can R. Kelly’s latest be called “throwback” when all of R&B seems to be playing Back to the Future?

  • Music

    April 22, 2010

    The Pot Shop Boys

    Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss

  • News

    April 1, 2010

    West Follywood

    How a progressive town founded on renters' rights and diversity ended up gridlocked, angry and elitist

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Hollywood: Local Incentives Trump Creativity

    ​The trend of local tax incentives luring filmmakers to shoot everywhere from Toronto to Tuscany is nothing new. And it's costing the Los Angeles film industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year. What is new is that producers are increasingly willing to rewrite scripts in order to fit a cost-e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Propaganda, War

    ​The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't exactly have a reputation for being a lightning rod for political controversy, but it became one in the early days of this year's edition thanks to a new festival sidebar, City to City, designed to explore "the evolving urban experience by immersing ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    November 13, 2008

    Fall Film: Quantum of Solace

    James Bond, neither shaken nor stirred

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Fitness Guru: Harley Pasternak

    James Bond, neither shaken nor stirred

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    LAFF 2008: Whiskey Wanted

    What to make of a film festival that made its name on indie fare now opening and closing with big-budget summer blockbusters from Universal? In fairness, the folks behind the Los Angeles Film Festival have thought that one out, noting that both WANTED and HELLBOY II are directed by critically acclai ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 18, 2007

    Movie Reviews: 30 Days of Night, Canvas, Futbaal

    Also Golda's Balcony, The Price of Sugar, Things We Lost in the Fire and more

  • LA Life

    August 23, 2007

    Snip, Snip

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

  • Film+TV

    April 12, 2007

    Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

    Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

  • Columns

    April 12, 2007

    Mischa Barton's Bender

    Her dogs were fine. The radiator of her mother's SUV; not so good.

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Across an Alternate Universe

    A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

  • News

    December 7, 2006

    ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

    Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    Bond and Gagged

    Why Daniel Craig had a far better weekend than either Michael Richards or Phillippe’s flack

  • Film+TV

    November 16, 2006

    Betting On Bond

    Casino Royale gambles with Daniel Craig

  • Columns

    July 6, 2006

    The Ankylosaurian Tourist

    Casino Royale gambles with Daniel Craig

  • Music

    April 13, 2006

    Killah on the Road

    Ghostface returns to the streets — and his own inner weirdo — on Fish Scale

  • News

    January 12, 2006

    Death Race 2000

    Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

  • LA Life

    November 24, 2005

    Where the Balls Are

    Bowling with L.A.’s alley cats

  • Music

    July 7, 2005

    Live in LA

    Bowling with L.A.’s alley cats

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Will Chris Rock Be Oscar Dyn-O-Mite?

    If Rock bombs he’ll have only himself (and maybe conservatives) to blame

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    All Shook Up?

    Are William Morris’ changes off the Richter scale or just tiny temblors?

  • Columns

    May 15, 2003

    George of the Jungle

    Are William Morris’ changes off the Richter scale or just tiny temblors?

  • Film+TV

    May 8, 2003

    When Big Gets Bigger

    X2 is everything it’s cracked up to be — and less!

  • Film+TV

    April 3, 2003

    When Moore Is Not Enough

    The Oscars give peace a glance

  • Eat+Drink

    February 20, 2003

    The Elusive Bite

    Stalking the wild hors d’oeuvre

  • Film+TV

    November 28, 2002

    Secret Agent Men

    The Quiet American and the explosive Mr. Bond

  • Art+Books

    October 17, 2002

    The Talented Mr. Ridley

    The author, screenwriter and radio commentator keeps his feet on the ground -- and his laptop at the ready

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    Letters

    The author, screenwriter and radio commentator keeps his feet on the ground -- and his laptop at the ready

  • Film+TV

    April 11, 2002

    The Good Enough Thriller

    Carl Franklin does what he can with High Crimes

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2002

    And the Oscar Goes To . . .

    The dogs. Sort of

  • Columns

    April 4, 2002

    It Ain’t Cool

    The dogs. Sort of

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Worlds of Wonder

    The Lord of the Rings and Monster's Ball; plus, The Majestic

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Deliverance

    Director Marc Forster breaks out

  • Music

    March 29, 2001

    Babes in Babylon

    Director Marc Forster breaks out

  • Film+TV

    August 26, 1999

    Justice

    Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

  • Film+TV

    July 8, 1999

    Summer of Spike

    On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

  • Film+TV

    June 4, 1998

    Pitted Against The Lizard

    Beatty talks Bulworth, Baptists, boo and the bullshit of the bottom-line

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