Reese Witherspoon

Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy

Laura Dave made a career out of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse buy at the gate before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earned her literary stripes. For one thing, the author has an MFA from the University of Virginia's highly regarded creat ... More >>

Lauren Berger Interned at MTV, Fox and 13 Other Places. Now She's Turned Her Experience Into a Business

Lauren Berger has gotten coffee at MTV. She's gotten coffee at Fox. And yes, she's done it at several other agencies that may not have as much brand recognition. She even broke the darned coffee pot once. These days, the 28-year-old entrepreneur gets others to fetch the java for her. Her web-based ... More >>

Uggie The Artist Dog's Trainer Omar Von Muller: The Man Behind the Dog

Stardom came late in life for Hollywood's Next Big Thing. Before he played opposite Reese Witherspoon and landed a scene-stealing role in an Academy Award-nominated film, he endured random parts in commercials, TV shows and films -- and even performed tricks on Third Street Promenade for pocket ... More >>

This Means War Review

The Descendants Review

Alexander Payne's Hawaiian excursion might be the feel-good movie of the year. Uh oh.

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

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 >>

5 Movies To Keep You From Destroying Your Relationship This Summer

Bonjour Tristesse​ It's almost July, which means its time to give up on any semblance of productivity at work and start plotting your escape. If you're half a couple, this list should guide you in your quest to make your relationship last through summer vacation. If you're single, or if, like ... More >>

Was Reese Witherspoon's Sexting Advice on MTV Intended for Anthony Weiner?

Hollywood LifeCome on, Weiner -- it's a no-brainer.​Everyone seems so sure that Reese Witherspoon's condescending sext lesson at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles last night was directed at Blake Lively, the young "Gossip Girl" hottie whose bedroom-mirror body shots recently took the celebri ... More >>

Tai the Elephant Abused Prior to Filming of Robert Pattinson Vehicle 'Water For Elephants,' Animal Rights Group Says

havetrunkwilltravel.comTai the elephant was abused?​Updated after the jump: PETA calls on the city of Santa Ana to stop using elephants supplied by the same company for animal rides at its zoo. An elephant who stars in the current Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson film Water for Elephant ... More >>

Water for Elephants

Squid Ink's New Star Watch Column

Welcome to our latest column, in which we tell you where Jon Cryer (who doesn't seem to be getting enough press these days, maybe because he's not high) and Emilio Estevez (see previous comment) and Jesse Eisenberg and Reese Witherspoon have been seen eating, or not eating, depending. Just kidding. ... More >>

How Do You Know Review: Funny Ha Ha and Funny Strange

Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd in James L. Brooks' new romcom

WHO'S YOUR BIG, BAD WOLF?

The Death of Gidget the Chihuahua: Taco Bell Dog Felled By Stroke

Taco Bell/APAdios, GidgetAssociated Press reports that Gidget, the chihuahua that fronted an immensely popular series of Taco Bell TV ads, has died of a massive stroke, according to her handlers. She was 15. Although decried by some Latino groups for perpetuating cultural stereotypes, Gidget's cha ... More >>

GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

ROCK & ROLLS OF FILM

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

How To Be An Asshole, L.A. Version

GO LA: Alvin Ailey, Karen Kilgariff and the Bloody Truth About Downtown

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

Movie Reviews: Ben X, Four Christmases, Special, Transporter 3

Also, Fix, Lake City, The Matador and more

Japanese Schoolgirls at the Museum

They were at the Getty Museum this past week. Masses of them. I was there with my dad and all of a sudden we were surrounded by a crowd of uniformed students. I went to Catholic school as a kid. It brought back, uh, fond memories of mean nuns, pleated red tartan skirts that would never stay properly ... More >>

Michelle Obama's Night Out in L.A.: Malia and Sasha Meet the Jonas Brothers

Dream come true for Malia, and indirect reference to Sarah Palin from Michelle, who says her husband is "not afraid of smart people."

Insane in the Lanes

Catwalkin', swag dolin', 10-pin bowlin', kid lovin' party time

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

Walk Hard: Hock the Line

Movie sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

The Ice Queen Melteth

From art-house icon to Hollywood headliner, Tilda Swinton isn’t afraid to let them see her sweat

Ordinary Rendition

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

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Kingdom: Shoot 'Em Up

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy

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 >>

A Fan's Notes

A salute to a new season for American Idol — and the Dodgers

Worst in Show

Risin' Up, Straight to the Top!

    Not one but three people I went to high school with were nominated for Oscars last night (Matt Dillon, Dan Futterman, and Bennett Miller) so I was kinda jazzed for the whole whoop-de-doo; I had my spiritual "Go Tigers" pom-poms out (our Mamaroneck High School theme song was Survivor's ... More >>

The Chic and the "Eek!"

Everybody's got an opinion when it comes to Oscar fashion, and since I'm in the Style Council, I can pretend mine matters. Coolio! I watched it all on the tube last night (no red carpet camping and definitely no traffic-jammed, hoity toity after-parties for me, at least not this year) with the rest ... More >>

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Back in Black

Some inspired detours sway Walk the Line from the straight and narrow

Elizabethtown

In the new Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most celebrated heroine continues to bedevil suitors and filmmakers alike

Jean Genie

Becky, We Hardly Knew Ye

Mira Nair’s colorful travesty of Vanity Fair

Promises Kept, Promises Broken

Governor keeps tax vows, but proves less faithful to the poor, young and sick

The Angeleno Aesthetic

Joie Davidow on the rise of the L.A. Look

The Shallow End

Devices and desires in Swimming Pool, plus The Girl From Paris

Winona Forever

Cheesy Hits of the Rich and Famous

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Ask any well-heeled American psycho

High School High

Alexander Payne's winning Election

Over the Rainbow

Gary Ross' Pleasantville

Love Among the Ruins

A Long Island delight, a Santa Monica snore