Kevin Bacon

Men in Bland: R.I.P.D. Is a Movie That Exists

Underground Life Below Earth? USC Researcher Jan Amend Digs For It

Are there creatures underground we don't know about? If you remember the 1990 film Tremors, starring one Kevin Bacon, then you know they exist, and they're out to get us, at least on-screen. Now USC professor Jan Amend and his team have set out to prove or disprove the existence of "subsurface" li ... More >>

Comic-Con Fashion: Jaw-Dropping Costumes Made From Your Free Tote Bag

By Eve Weston and Zachary Pincus-Roth The most ubiquitous objects at San Diego Comic-Con aren't iPhones or Storm Trooper helmets or even comic books -- they're the free Warner Brothers tote bags you get at registration. The bags are so huge that if you don't manage to locate a late-minute hotel roo ... More >>

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

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

LFO Lyrical Dissection: Girls Who Wear Abercrombie and Fitch Must Be Young and Dumb

See also: *What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" About? UPDATE: Mind-blowing Shit Has Come To Light *Color Me Badd Lyrical Dissection: What Does "We Can Do It 'til We Both Wake Up" Mean? It's truly impossible to tally the changes the record industry has undergone in the past decade ... More >>

Footloose Review

Footloose Review: A Film to Help Mothers Teach Daughters to Date Studious, Drug-Free Gymnasts Over Stoned, Sleazy Older Dudes

​ In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose -- starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross -- along with its contemporary, Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's-put-on-a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed n ... More >>

Crazy, Stupid, Love Review

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Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

Top 10 Men With Meat Names

Men With Meat Names is an ad-hoc website that lists, you guessed it, men with meat names. We compiled the ten best into one, easy-to-read top-10 list for your reading (or is tasting?) enjoyment. Are the photos a bit large? Sure they are, but you don't want to see tiny thumbprint shots of these guys, ... More >>

Bacon Kevin Bacon

Inspired by his young daughter's battle with luekemia, entrepreneur Dave Lefkow is auctioning off a life-sized bust of Kevin Bacon to benefit his non-profit charity Ashley's Team. Lefkow crafted the bust himself--out of the very product with which his company J & D's made its bones: Bacon Salt, ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Promoter Suing City

Electric Daisy Carnival at the L.A. Coliseum​The organizer of the giant Electric Daisy Carnival rave at the L.A. Coliseum, where this year a 15-year old girl died of a suspected drug overdose, is suing L.A. for not allowing his company, Insomniac Inc., to host a Tiesto show at the L.A. Convent ... More >>

Santa Monica Whale Sushi Restaurant Closes

The Hump and Typhoon restaurants.​The Hump, the Santa Monica restaurant that faces a federal charge for serving endangered whale meat, announced it's closing its doors effective Saturday. "The Hump hopes that by closing its doors, it will help bring awareness to the detrimental effect that il ... More >>

Guns n Roses Plays CBGB! (OK, Axl & Some Dudes Play the Varvatos Clothing Store)

Brooklyn Vegan"You're in Varvatos, Baby--I wanna see you shoooooooppppp!"​Brooklyn Vegan reports that last night Guns n Roses Axl Rose and a bunch of his buddies who are not Slash, Duff, etc. played legendary NYC club CBGBs the hip clothing store Varvatos in the Bowery. According to Brookly V ... More >>

Auction Me Barbra: Babs Has a Yard Sale

Julien's Auctions​There are no fewer than two Hollywood memorabilia auctions taking place this week. Calabasas' Profiles in History is running one of its periodic prop-and-costume bidding wars ("Ever dream of getting into Megan Fox's shorts?" asks today's L.A. Daily News. "It'll only cost you abou ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

Also, Earth Days, Gotta Dance and more

Daniel Baldwin The Gray Kid Dov Charney's Silver Lake Mansion = Video Thrills

Still from The Gray Kid's "Happy Feet video" It doesn't take Daniel Baldwin long to tell a joke that punchlines with philosophical rhetoric on the necessities of an on-set blow-job. That he plays the priest in the day's music video only makes it funnier. That the day's setting is the American Appar ... More >>

Coming Home: Taking Chance Writer Lt. Col. Michael Strobl and Producer-Director Ross Katz on the Iraq Movie About America

Kevin Bacon gives a powerful performance as Strobl in the HBO film

Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

AP: Madoff Fleeced Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick

An Associated Press story, carried by Huffington Post and several other sources, reports that husband-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick were taken to the cleaners big time by disgraced investment titan Bernard Madoff. The couple are the latest Hollywood figures known to have suffered heavy l ... More >>

Why We're Thankful For 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'

The holiday season is plentiful - if not bursting - with Christmas films, most of which are heaped upon us in early succession just like everything else tinsel and mistletoe. And you can't say there isn't variety to account for differing tastes: It's A Wonderful Life for your traditionalists; A Ch ... More >>

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Three Degrees of The Strip

Greetings style council readers, today we offer links to a tantalizing trifecta of videos for your viewing pleasure. The first from author/original club kid James St James, the second from actress-turned rockstar-turned-actress again Juliette Lewis, and finally a clip of Tony Romo attempting to ro ... More >>

How She Move, Santouri (The Music Man)

Also: Undoing, Alice's House, The Air I Breathe

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Film Reviews: 3:10 to Yuma, Exiled, Hatchet

Also, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Hunting Party and more

Splattered: An Interview with James Wan

Talking torture, politics and not-so-sweet revenge

Film reviews: Summercamp!, Self-Medicated, The Nines and More

Also Halloween, Death Sentence and this week's pick, Manda Bala

Chest of Lies

Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

The Ensemble Age

Shows of actor armies are taking over prime time

Film Reviews

Surf Report

Pass the Salty

Best Freak Ever

Project Yard Sale

The Best Hoopla Ever!

Featuring Lancelot Link, the Archies, Zack de la Rocha and Pamela Des Barres!

Sista Act

When it comes to Sugar Water, Jill Scott knows how to share. (Props to Big Bird.)

3-D Pop

The Randies sell out to themselves

The Better To Bludgeon You With, My Dear

Nicole Kassell’s The Woodsman

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

Sail Away

Primp the Legend

Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River

White Elephant Sale

The 56th Cannes Film Festival goes hunting for America

The Storyteller

Fred Rochlin, 1923­ - 2002

Hollow Promise

iJunkets furnishes virtual face time with stars — but on whose terms?

Empty Dumpty

Sounding for echoes in Hollow Man

Beyond Reasons

Stir of Echoes and The Minus Man