Meryl Streep

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Cookbook of the Week: The Complete Bocuse, Easter Wines A Hay-Cooked Ham (!) Recipe

As Easter approaches, we repent. Late last year, The Complete Bocuse, a nearly 800-page tribute to Paul Bocuse's modern French cuisine, went straight from our desk to our permanent cookbook shelf without a weekly cookbook feature. Too many end-of-year cookbooks, too much holiday ham, too much wine. ... More >>

The Iron Lady Review

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

Angry Birds: The Cookbook

Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jamaica Farewell, A Raisin in the Sun, Glory Days

Also, Rockin' With the Ages 3, Streep Tease

Stage Raw: Pursued by Happiness

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Anthony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          & ... More >>

Stage Raw: Gertrude, Alice, and David Mamet

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Antony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          &n ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chinese Coffee, Daddy, Love, Sex and the IRS

Also, Fatigued, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Greedy and more

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk, They Call Me Mister Fry, Bones

Also Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues and more

Streep Tease

Streep Tease

Stage Raw: Bones

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO BONES ​Photo by Craig Schwartz Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that hasn't lessened its horror or salved the terrible scars borne by its v ... More >>

Food in Film: Oscar Nominations Announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category (big surprise), which has doubled in size to ten. As far as food movies go, Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for Julie & Julia, a ... More >>

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 >>

It’s Complicated: It’s Fucking Annoying

Nancy Meyers makes another Nancy Meyers movie

UP IN THE AIR WITH VERA FARMIGA

She's more than George Clooney with a vagina.

21st-Century Fox

BEST CAVALCADE OF STREEPS

Kindle This: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Tops Bestseller List

Amazon.comJulia Child a best-seller​For those bemoaning the lost art of reading (here's David Ulin's fine piece in the Los Angeles Times) or the lost art of cooking (Michael Pollan in the New York Times), there is good news on both counts: Julia Child's classic cookbook "Mastering the Art of F ... More >>

A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger

Scan courtesy Susan FenigerEveryone's in the kitchen with Julia​A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger, chef-co-owner of Ciudad, Border Grill and Street: I'd like to say something right up front: I'm not a film critic, I'm not a writer, and I generally don't like movies about cooki ... More >>

Julie & Julia: In Praise of Half of Meryl Streep's Top-Chef Biopic

Nora Ephron captures the earthly delights found in Julia Child’s cookbook and autobiography

IF YOU KNEW ANNA . . .

1961 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

Larousse Gastronomique: The Necessary 8-lb. Book In Your Cookbook Library

It is the Summer of Julia, when teenage girls will soon be lining up along the hot concrete sidewalks of Wilshire Boulevard to watch Meryl Streep flip omelets and deconstruct ducks onscreen.

Mastering The Art Of Julia: Drinking STREET's Susan Feniger Under The Table

Sony PicturesMeryl Streep as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia" In this week's ongoing Mastering The Art of Julia series - partly started in anticipation of this summer's Nora Ephron-directed Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the food world's warbly-voiced Julia Child - we talk to STREET's Susan ... More >>

For Your Reconsideration: Doubt’s Viola Davis

One-scene wonder

Mamma Mia! Big-Screen Musical Drains the Fun out of ABBA

Here we go again, in this (Shirley) valentine to 50-something broads

War Haters, Tastemakers and Kightlingers

What to do in L.A., March 14-20

Prairie Home host, no companions

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

Lions for Lambs: Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest war drama

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

And I'm Telling You...

Thank god for Andre Leon Talley. After enduring E!s super-geeky/freaky coverage of the Oscars red carpet last night, we switched over to ABC's own, and the Vogue columnist was definitely a breath of fresh air, talking fashion and film in a fabulous way that only a flamboyant gay man can. Our only c ... More >>

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

En Vogue

Prada probes the Wintour of a former assistant’s discontent

Plains Song

A Prairie Home Companion takes to the screen

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

Paranoia Strikes Deep

As The Manchurian Candidate creeps back into our lives

Who's Unafraid of Virginia Woolf?

Kidman, Streep and Moore in The Hours

Inside 'Charlie Kaufman'

The metafictional mayhem in — and behind — Spike Jonze's Adaptation

Behind the Screen at the Museum

LACMA film programmer Ian Birnie

Supermom

Carl Franklin's old-fashioned weepie