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Watch This Now: Tom Cruise Making Xiaolongbao

And here now is a video of Tom Cruise making soup dumplings, in exactly the same way you'd imagine Tom Cruise would make soup dumplings: With determination. Cruise was in Taiwan earlier this month to promote his latest film, Oblivion, and stopped by Din Tai Fung's Taipei 101 branch to learn how to m ... More >>

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

Oblivion Review: Tom Cruise's Grand Sci-Fi Experiment

Beverly Hills Burglars Sought Near Tom Cruise's Home

Beverly Hills cops nabbed a suspected burglar near Tom Cruise's home, but one or two others apparently got away, authorities said. Police were called to the 1100 block of Calle Vista Drive about 5:10 last night after a neighbor saw alleged burglars "carrying duffle bags" at a nearby estate, accordi ... More >>

Top 10 LA Weekly Web Stories Of 2012

The economy sucked and some news just made you want to bury your head under a pillow. But if you're in the journalism game, 2012 was the gift that kept on giving, from the worst bands (of all time) to Tom Cruise's relationship woes to awkward dance moves. Yes, awkward dance moves. LA Weekly had so ... More >>

Tom Cruise Prowler Tased In Beverly Hills

Cops were called to the Beverly Hills home of Tom Cruise last night to deal with a "prowler." It turns out this might have just involved a drunk neighbor. The news first hit the world via Twitter user BHScanner, which noted that officers were called to a home in the 1000 block of Calle Vista in Bev ... More >>

5 Signs Tom Cruise Is Gay

Folks are buzzing once again about Tom Cruise's sexuality following his reported divorce from Katie Holmes, which he's on the record saying she initiated. We're not saying Tom Cruise is gay. In fact, we're saying he's not. That's official. He's been married three times -- to some of Hollywood's sex ... More >>

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Def Leppard Are a Bunch of Assholes

Def Leppard bailed on a fashion show yesterday. We know because we were trying to cover it. Fuck our life. See, Rock of Ages, the movie, comes out next week, and its title comes from a Def Leppard song. The film features Tom Cruise singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (vomit) and apparently Def Leppard ... More >>

Marijuana's Top 5 Uses, From Real University Research

Here in California, marijuana is legal for just about any ailment you can dream up. And while medical cannabis supporters have argued that the drug is a harmless tool for grandmothers with cancer who want to forget their pain and spark their appetites, there has been plenty of academic research on ... More >>

Beverly Hills City Hall Poses as L.A. City Hall for Tom Cruise Film Shoot

Funny thing about Los Angeles: Because of all the (retouched) films set in our city, it's idealized around the world as this glamorous, gorgeous land of sunshine and bikini girls and pretty pretty palm trees. And there is some of that. But little do the dreamers know that our slacker city governmen ... More >>

Michael Doven, Tom Cruise's Personal Assistant, Spied on Him For Church of Scientology -- Report

Oprah​If you wonder how the creepy Church of Scientology keeps tabs on its superstar converts (and -- perhaps -- digs up a little dirt?), Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief of our sister paper, Village Voice, might have found out. His mega-scoop today: Between 1991 and 2005, Cruise's personal ass ... More >>

Cut: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jeffrey Ross, Comedian, to 'Roast' Occupy L.A. at City Hall Tomorrow

roastmastergeneral.comJeffrey Ross will occupy your gut.​The Occupy movement has received wide-ranging endorsements, from Democrats to Communists, Green Party leaders to Alec Baldwin. But what the campers on the lawn of L.A. City Hall really need is an endorsement that will help them endure t ... More >>

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

Obama Invites Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson to Talk Immigration (Because Hollywood Millionaires Are Huge Border Experts)

Eva has deep immigration knowledge (we kid).​President Obama is having prominent Angeleno Latinos over to his Casablanca today for a little talk on immigration. Among the invitees are Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, fellow actresses Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera, and local radio hero ... More >>

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 >>

Top 10 Celebrity Marijuana Brands: In Honor Of Chuck Norris And Michael Phelps, Here's Our Wish List Of Superstar Strains

current.comMichael Phelps goes for gold.​In reaction to such recent honorees as Chuck Norris and Michael Phelps, the Weekly would like to forward to you, our humble and useful cannabis retailers, a list of other celebrities who also deserve their own strains of weed. We know your suppliers ar ... More >>

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

Porn-Maker Vivid Entertainment Vows To Keep Offering 'Octomom' Nadia Suleman Work

Octo ... MILF?​We haven't seen a pursuit this hot since the tabloid press set out to prove that Tom Cruise is gay. (He's not, Tom Cruise's lawyers, we swear he's not). Porn production house Vivid Entertainment has been chasing "Octomom" Nadia Suleman like Bob Sagat after a Playboy bunny. She ... More >>

Salt: the First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy an otherwise rote movie

Movie Reviews: Restrepo, Eyes Wide Open, The Sun Behind the Clouds

Also, Knight and Day, Raavan, The Killer Inside Me and more

Steal A Hollywood Scene -- For A Price

​This has got to be the ultimate film-lover's souvenir, and you can't buy one on Hollywood Boulevard. Rather, Paramount Pictures is rolling out a website where everyday movie fans will be able to edit and then buy and download a self-selected clip from their favorite Paramount flicks. The God ... More >>

Prop House Auction Begins Today

​When 20th Century Props owner Harvey Schwartz looked at how high his bills stacked up against request orders coming from a recession-bashed Hollywood, he decided to pull the plug three months ago. Beginning today and running through Saturday, bargain hunters and the merely curious can file throug ... More >>

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

Yes, When I Think of Christmas, I Think of Nazis

Pat Kingsley

Flack like me

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

An American Realist

Robert Redford and the façade of a nation

They Must Be High

Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

Terror in the Aisles

The snakes that didn’t save Hollywood, and the suit who just might

War of the Words

Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

Tom Tom Club

Cruise in Control

The Syracuse kid saves the world in style

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Independence Days

Bruce yet not Bruce, Ka-boom! And would Bill Haley have been invited to play the Warped Tour?

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Starfire and Brimstone

In Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, an alien invasion cuts mankind down to size

Tom Gets Physical With Oprah

The Rainmaker

Mayor Hahn and the first indictment in the PR-firm scandal

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

Shadow Warriors

The Last Samurai gets lost in a tendentious haze

“Ka-ching, Ka-ching?”

Discovering Jayson Blair

Odd Couples

Cruise meets Cruz in Vanilla Sky; Bayley mourns Murdoch in Iris

Babes in Babylon

This Is Your Life

Paul Thomas Anderson's third symphony

Days of Plunder

The life and fast times of Don Simpson