Tom Hanks

Hanksy, the Banksy-Meets-Tom Hanks Street Artist, Tells Us the Secrets to Spoofing Celebrities

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Banksy is so 2010. Hanksy, the similarly secretive street artist and love child of Banksy and Tom Hanks, is reaching his own level of notoriety thanks to his celeb-inspired murals, the subject of Gallery 1988 ... More >>

Los Angeles Wants 2024 Olympics

We've done it twice, we can do it again. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he put our hat in the ring for the 2024 Olympics. "I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," he wrote to the U.S. Olympic Committee. The bid ... More >>

Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of n ... More >>

Umami Burger and More Coming to LAX Villaraigosa Comes Out As a "Foodie"

You might have already heard the news: LAX's Tom Bradley Terminal is getting a huge $80-million retail makeover in 2014, with over 60 new restaurants and shops being added. International travelers will be able to sample the flavors of L.A. with out ever leaving the international terminal (reminisce ... More >>

Cloud Atlas Review: The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer bring their adaptation of David Mitchell's novel to Toronto

One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us who saw the film's world premiere in Toronto last night, Cloud Atlas -- written and directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski from David Mi ... More >>

Nora Ephron, Writer of 'Sleepless in Seattle,' Dead at 71

Hollywood filmmaker Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, died today at the age of 71, the Washington Post and New York Times report. After a day of rumors about her health that included denials from her agent and publisher, the two outlets said late this afternoon that t ... More >>

Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

From Schindler's List to middle-aged action star

Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotes

In honor of National Coffee Day, we've compiled a list of Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotations. Why memorable movie quotations, and not, say, quotations from your favorite novels? Because we live in L.A. Duh. Turn the page.

Carmageddon Countdown: FAQ (Along With All Your Not-So-Frequently Asked, But Equally Burning, Questions)

This is Carmageddon, the game. Please do not attempt this during Carmageddon, the Los Angeles traffic event.​We've spent a lot of time joking about Carmageddon -- meming it, crowd-sourcing it, naming drinks after it, etc. Admittedly, though, beneath the stupid hype, which has reached quite i ... 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 >>

Larry Crowne Review

Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

Top 10 'Punk' Moments On Film From The Authors of 'Destroy All Movies'

Lina LecaroZack Carlson and Bryan Connolly are voracious about movies and punk rock. ​According to NY music scene pioneer Richard Hell, "punk" stands for two things in our culture. First, "the possibility of pride and haven for kids rejected as worthless" and second, for "unhinged, violent, cr ... More >>

Opa On: Los Angeles Greek Fest 2010

Flickr/robjtakLA Greek Festival 2008​ We had our culinary awakening over fried smelts on a Greek island in the early 00s. This was before the Euro. It was the off-season; fares had been cheap, and suddenly we were lounging at a table three steps from a restaurant without a name. The sky was ... More >>

Tom Hanks Likes Public Radio Apple Pies

If you've been stuck in the car listening to public radio during the last few days, you're painfully aware that KPCC is currently conducting a pledge drive. You also know by now how much Tom Hanks likes public radio, as both he and his driver have done recurrent bits for the cause. Apparently not on ... More >>

'Save The Peak' Effort To Preserve Land Near Hollywood Sign Has One Day, $3 Million To Go Before Deadline

Shannon Cottrell​Efforts to "save the peak" near the historic Hollywood sign have one day and $3 million to go to purchase the land for public use, the Trust for Public Land states. The group has raised more than $9 million toward the $12 million purchase price of the 138-acre swath of land o ... More >>

Could You Raise $3 Million In Three Weeks? That's The Price Of Saving Hollywood Sign's Environs

Shannon Cottrell​Conservationists who want to save the land surrounding the iconic Hollywood sign from development have three weeks to raise $3 million dollars, they announced Wednesday. The Chicago-based investors who own the property, once for sale for $22 million, agreed to give it to the ... More >>

WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER GYRO

The Weekend in Ethnic Feasting: Have Some Hummos with Your Injera

The post-fire smoke cloud that's still hovering over parts of the city will no doubt be blown away by the exotic spices and music filling the air this weekend. Two cultural festivals, the L.A. Greek Fest and the Little Ethiopia Street Festival, will put on proud displays of the best of their nationa ... More >>

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

Tom Hanks' Finest Work?

GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

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

Angels & Demons: Holy Crap

Da Vinci Code sequel has a need for speed

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

Also, The Fantasticks, Courting Vampires, A Number and more

IF ANYONE KNEW ABOUT STAR POWER, IT WAS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Big, The Musical

ROCK & ROLLS OF FILM

Stage Raw: Hanks a Lot

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

LA People 2009: Stand-in — Jon Donahue

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

A collision of good intentions and unintended consequences

Do Tell: Semper Fi – One Marine’s Journey

Saluting the gay, the proud, the Marines

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

Veni, Vidi, Vinci

Action and ideas pummel each other in The Da Vinci Code

In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

Crazed Catholics

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

Hipsters Must Die

10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

Brother From Another Planet

Tom Hanks in Spielberg’s The Terminal

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

Stuck in Low, Riding High

Tom Hanks stalls on Road to Perdition; Paul Bettany soars through Gangster No. 1

Not the Real World

2001 on TV

Don't Let Your Meat Loaf

Edited by Kateri Butler

Deadlyland

Hanks and Spielberg’s bloody theme park

In a Lonely Place

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, plus Cast Away,The House of Mirth and The Family Man

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Return to Sender

Hanks and Ryan sleepless again in You've Got Mail

Hop Dreams

Passing through the "I" of a needle

Dark Victory

Steven Spielberg's good war