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Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

Why The Artist Will Win Best Picture at the Oscars

To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of persuasion over Academy members -- it's actually true. A silent film has not taken top honors since the ... More >>

Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night Made It Big. But That Wasn't the End of the Story

To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of persuasion over Academy members -- it's actually true. A silent film has not taken top honors since the ... More >>

Cartoondown

To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of persuasion over Academy members -- it's actually true. A silent film has not taken top honors since the ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Terilyn Shropshire: To Live and Cut in L.A.

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Bankrupt Businessman James Agate Angles for a Slice of Billionaire Ted Forstmann's Riches

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Bill Murray's Tale From the Crypt

Nothing Lasts Forever comes back — for one night only

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stormy Weather

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jane Austen Unscripted, A Skull in Connemara, Model Behavior

Also, The Todd and Molly Show, Dai, Stormy Weather and more

Stage Raw: Phil Newby

PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

Credit Crunch Hits Hollywood Studios

Paramount Is First to Feel Financing Woes

I Am a Diary

Excerpts from Christopher Isherwood's journal

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

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Separated at Birth

Kevin and Kimberly were twins whose lives were shaped by the desert and loss, but that’s where the similarities ended

Queen of the Angels

Kim Garfield (1934–2006)

Frankly Giving a Damn

Daniel Selznick weighs in on a play about his father, David O. Selznick

Skid Row

Daniel Selznick weighs in on a play about his father, David O. Selznick

Grokster Bites the Dust! Ho-hum

At least Modest Mouse got name-dropped in a Supreme Court case

True to You in My Fashion

De-Lovely tiptoes around its promiscuous subject

Perfect Patsy, Too-Perfect Parent

Denzel Washington in Out of Time, Olympia Dukakis in The Event

Object Lessons

Angie Schworer’s smart take on a dumb blond

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

Twisted Roots

Little Otik’s comedy of terrors; plus, Hart’s War

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Letters

The American Nightmare and Hannibal