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Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotes

In honor of National Coffee Day, we've compiled a list of Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotations. Why memorable movie quotations, and not, say, quotations from your favorite novels? Because we live in L.A. Duh. Turn the page.

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 >>

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

CASINO JACK

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

Stage Raw: The Walworth Farce

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeNEW REVIEW GO THE WALWORTH FARCE​Photo by Pavel AntonovModern Irish theater is filled with three things: people holding other people hostage, people making up crap, and play ... More >>

A Tale of Two L.A.s

Two distant critics on two radically different takes on L.A. offered by Hollywood. The comments below are on, respectively, the Kevin Spacey film Shrink and HBO's Entourage series. The truth, no doubt, lies somewhere in between. Somewhere.Jihan Abdalla/Roadside Attractions "Like smog settling o ... More >>

Was Disney a Spaniard? Did Beck Used to Use a Leafblower?

Two distant critics on two radically different takes on L.A. offered by Hollywood. The comments below are on, respectively, the Kevin Spacey film Shrink and HBO's Entourage series. The truth, no doubt, lies somewhere in between. Somewhere.Jihan Abdalla/Roadside Attractions "Like smog settling o ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Food, Inc., Imagine That, Moon

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

They Still Heart Huckabee

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

They ♥ Huckabee

The problem with hearing Mike Huckabee speak at the Angelus Temple is that you first have to sit through 20 minutes of the temple's house band, Press Play, a kind of Up With Christian People rock ensemble that makes one nostalgic for the 1980s metallurgical hosannas of Stryper. A second problem is ... More >>

Down for the Recount

Fear and loathing in Florida as HBO re-creates the Bush-Gore fight over butterfly ballots and hanging chads

21: Counting Sheep

Adaptation of Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House doesn't hit the jackpot

Film Reviews

Adaptation of Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House doesn't hit the jackpot

Film Reviews: Choking Man, Fred Claus, P2, Steal a Pencil for Me

Adaptation of Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House doesn't hit the jackpot

Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

Also Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Hey There, Lobster Girl!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

It Ain’t Easy Bein' Blue

Bryan Singer offers a loving homage to the ghosts of Supermen past

Horsefeathers

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Horsefeathers!

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Phantoms and Crooners

Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera and Kevin Spacey’s Beyond the Sea

An Hour With Moses

The Old Testament superstar looks remarkably like Val Kilmer

9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

The misdeeds of Convoluted Rice and Uncurious George are no joke

Black Dahlia Backlash

Family members take Hodel’s Avenger to task

Howard’s End

A Beautiful Mind; plus, The Shipping News

Turn the Channel

Why those striking actors just can’t get respect — or a contract

Bad News

L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

Blue Velour

Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in the suburbs

Stocking Stuffers

And a few lumps of coal