Martin Sheen

Charlie Sheen Discovers His Latino Roots (For a Gig)

Charlie Sheen said last year that being Latino "was never a part of my life growing up ... My parents never infused it into our household." A guy born Carlos Irwin Estévez who has displayed a reported penchant for cocaine and porn stars couldn't be any more Latino, if you ask us. (Jus' kideen!). B ... More >>

Meet the Fabulous Morgans: The Castle-Dwelling, High-Flying, Coolest, Quirkiest Family in L.A.

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

DocuWeeks 2012 Preview

DocuWeeks tackles issues ranging from a gay bishop to an underwater garden in Baja

The Amazing Spider-Man Review: The Spider Becomes a Man — and a Joy

L.A. Weekly Wins Big With 6 SoCal Journalism Awards, 3 AltWeeklies Awards

Last night's SoCal Journalism Awards -- an annual affair put on by the L.A. Press Club -- were more star-spangled than usual. Among the presenters and honorees were Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman (so much shorter in person, but with an even bigger voice), Daniel Pearl's extended family and every journal ... More >>

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

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

Brad Pitt to Star as Gay Prop. 8 Judge in Livestreamed YouTube Reenactment of Trial

Is Brad Pitt feeling a little guilty about saying he might have to break his big promise not to marry Angelina Jolie until his homosexual brethren can do the same? The American Foundation for Equal Rights, the plaintiff in California's never-ending court battle to overturn Proposition 8, is announc ... More >>

The Way Review

Terrence Malick at LACMA

Filmmaker gets retrospective in advance of upcoming Tree of Life

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Nolte Invoked For Movie Investment Scam, Feds Allege

Britney was used.​In a town for where handshakes and words often suffice for written contracts, it's easy to see how an alleged scam like this could go down. Two L.A. area men were arrested today on suspicion of running a "boiler room" operation that raised $300,000 for films that weren't pro ... More >>

Jean and Scott Adam, SoCal Missionaries on Global Yacht Tour, Taken Hostage by Somali Pirates, Dragged Back to Lair

svquest.comJean and Scott Adam, L.A.'s gutsiest missionaries, hand out Bibles in the Cook Islands​Update: Jean and Scott Adam were fatally shot on their boat by pirates, authorities said today -- even as U.S. Navy ships trailed the vessel. Two pirates were then killed and 13 were captured, acc ... More >>

Oral Sex Might be Leading to Increase in Neck, Head Cancer: Sorry L.A. Porn Stars

Hysterical BerthaTongue is a possible gateway to cancer.​More bad news for L.A.'s embattled porn-star community. First an HIV scare puts them out of work temporarily. Then testing at their favorite health clinic is shut down by the state. Now comes word that oral sex might be linked to a rise ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Gets 'Tummy Ache' After All-Night Rager on Mulholland Drive

babble.comCharlie Sheen's other tummy problem​Updated after the jump: Might Charlie's stomach pains have had something to do with a TMZ-touted "briefcase of cocaine"? Or did he just... wait for it... laugh too hard? Not sure why we care, but Charlie Sheen's been in the emergency room at Cedar ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Piranha 3-D, Centurion

Also, Chasing 3000, The People I've Slept With and more

Hollywood Producer Will Run Against Barbara Boxer For U.S. Senate

Brian Quintana.​Hollywood producer Brian Quintana (Superman: Man of Steel) has announced he filed papers to challenge Barbara Boxer for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in California's June primary. He says he would be the first "person of color" to represent California in the senate. ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Ballad of Emmett Till, Dual Citizens, The Subject Was Roses

Also, Wit, Calliope Rose, Barbra’s Wedding and more

Stage Raw: The Subject Was Roses and Emmett Till

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS​No bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>

Stage Raw: "Wit," and other New Reviews

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO WIT ​Photo courtesy of Actors' Co-opPlaywright Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for this intense drama  about an English poetry pro ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, Must Read After My Death, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Also, Dog Eat Dog, Echelon Conspiracy and more

Pan African Film Fest's Closing Weekend: Legacies of Slavery, Colonialism

Proposition 5: The Most Threatening (to the Prison Industrial Complex)

More drug treatment means fewer criminals, and fewer criminals could mean fewer prisons

Best and Worst Fictional Presidential Speeches on Film TV

It’s almost hard to believe that we are, at long last, in the final stretches of the 2008 presidential campaign. No matter which way you are inclined to vote (though particularly so if you skew blue, where the primary race felt almost as long as all seven seasons of The West Wing), there have bee ... More >>

Pointed Shoots

Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival

Talk to Me: Shock Jockery

Don Cheadle almost saves Talk to Me

Cops and Robbers

Martin Scorsese's greatest hits

Club Emmy

Film Reviews

The Dirty Old Men Meet the Critics

Resurrection of the Two Johns

And Dean’s debacle in Iowa

Letters

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

Barbarian at the Gate

An Arnold candidacy pumps up the political game for Hollywood

No Politics, Please, We're American

The war and Ms. Garofalo

Letters

Peace Games

At Vandenberg Air Force Base, protest was just another military exercise

Finally, Anti-War Democrats

Howard Dean: “I want my country back”

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

Leopard Colony

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

The protests in San Francisco proved that the peacenik universe is expanding

Your Friends and Neighbors for Peace

A weekend's march through time

The Bully Pulpit

Hollywood’s not-always-welcome role in national politics

Redux Deluxe

The Apocalypse Now DVD that might have been

Under the Lava Lamp

High Fidel

Showtime takes Castro seriously

No Room at the Ranch

Ahmanson won’t have truly affordable units

The Last Movie

Apocalypse Now Redux

Letters

The Bruce Conner Story

Not a retrospective

All the President's Wonks

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing