Jennifer Aniston

$ellebrity: Photographer Kevin Mazur Discusses His New Film About Gossip, Paparazzi and the Cost of Fame

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage It's possible that the price of fame has never been higher -- and not just in the tried-and-true Hollywood storylines of fame, fortune and the tragic falls from grace. In his new documentary $ellebrity, seasoned celebrity and event photographer Kevin Mazur ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: John Mayer's Body of Work is a Wonderland

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] John Mayer has been persecuted for years. Way back in 2003, the Village Voice mocked his music in an article called "Phal ... More >>

Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy

Laura Dave made a career out of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse buy at the gate before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earned her literary stripes. For one thing, the author has an MFA from the University of Virginia's highly regarded creat ... More >>

Ghostface Killah Changes Mind About Online Impersonator Ghostfase: 'Shout Out to My Mini Muse.... Funny Ass Ninja'

​Internet junkies earned a new respect for Ghostface Killah back in March, under the illusion it was he who had conjured the brilliant and hysterical (to the point of tears) "Top 10 Softest Rappers In The Game." But when West Coast darling Wiz Khalifa and the other teddy bears on the list sta ... More >>

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Sexy Women Still Party at Age 40, Says Alarming Report Focusing on Ladies of California

Sandra can still party, apparently.​From the Department of No Frigging Duh know comes this fine scoop from USA Today ... today. Forty-year-old women, it turns out, like to party too. The in-depth story looks mostly at the fine, middle-aged ladies off California. Now, the underlying assumptio ... More >>

Horrible Bosses Review: The Recession Makes Straight Dudes Worry About Getting Raped

​ There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word "pussy." Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with th ... More >>

Just Go With It

Life Is Beautiful

Attractive female seeks attractive sperm donor in attractive comedy The Switch

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

Squid Ink Retraction: Jennifer Aniston Denies Baby Food Diet

GerberHere comes the airplane, and it's coming to take your dignity​It sounds like we owe Jennifer Aniston an apology. We ran a story a couple of weeks ago stating that she was going on a baby food diet to lose weight. It turns out that those claims were, in fact, not true. "I've been asked la ... More >>

Lunch in a Jar: Jennifer Aniston Goes On Baby Food Diet

GerberHere comes the airplane, and it's coming to take your dignity​It turns out that you don't have to starve yourself or go on a juice fast in order to become movie star thin. You just need to run your lunch through a food mill, remove all texture and enjoyability, and treat yourself like a ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Dirty Hands, Furry Vengeance, Harry Brown

Also, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Timer, The Good Heart

Movie Reviews: Stolen, Severe Clear, The Bounty Hunter, The Killing Jar

Also, Tales From the Script, Neil Young: Trunk Show, See What I'm Saying and more

The Price of Shooting Stars

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Experts: New Anti-Pap Law Could Hurt Legit Journos

Sometimes we feel sorry for the paparazzi. Sure, most of them didn't go to Northwestern, intern for big newspapers or get bright-green LAPD press cards. They don't bring us news we can use. But they do capture an aspect of history, work their butts off, and face great bodily harm daily (especially w ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Jennifer's Body, Love Happens

Also, Crude, You the Living and more

Buying Clothes With a Conscience

The Associated Press' Sandy Cohen offers some tips for people who wish to do good when it comes to buying clothes, without exactly placing bleeding hearts on their sleeves. "We're not talking 'Save the Whales' T-shirts," Cohen assures us. "These are hip styles that celebrities work into their everyd ... More >>

Empowered Overlordress: Women in Film's Jane Fleming

Creatives and emerging talent have a fierce friend in president of nonprofit

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Your Cat's Just Not That Into You

With the movie version of the book version of the advice every mother, father, sister, and concerned gay best friend ever gave a lovesick girl about to drop this Friday, I present to you this book: Your Cat's Just Not That Into You--What Part of Meow Don't You Understand? This is not a review nor an ... More >>

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

In the Beginning

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

War and Remembrances

City of Lights, City of Angels winds down with dark ruminations and hopeful sentiments

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

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 >>

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

Where Is the Love?

Vaughn and Aniston go to war

The Passion of the Cash

Da Vinci Cannes the world

Flick Chick

Nicole Holofcener

Family Viewing

At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life

I've Got Your Number

Trailer of Tears

It’s gonna be a long, not-so-hot summer movie season

Downsized

American and European movies go to work

Say It Ain’t So, Mrs. Robinson

The secrets behind The Graduate’s un-sequel

The Forgotten Woman

Revelations from a plus-size life

Transports and Transplants

Affairs of the heart in The Good Girl and Blood Work

Whole Lotta Love

Mark Wahlberg, movie star

Comic Belief

The soul in two dimensions