Albert Brooks

Your ode to L.A.? Let's have it

Some people despise Los Angeles. Others have a love-hate relationship. And then there's Justin Chart, 53, who loves his native city with all his aching heart. Nearly a year ago, Chart took his daughter to the Griffith Observatory, and they enjoyed a...

Tags: Dodger Stadium, Entertainment, Arlo Guthrie, Music Industry, Osteria Mozza

Saturday's TV Highlights:'On the Waterfront' on TCM

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 24 - March 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES The Graham Norton Show:  Jeremy...

Tags: Greg Grunberg, Jeremy Renner, Billy Campbell, ESPN (tv network), Ben Affleck

Albert Brooks takes bait, signs on for ‘Finding Nemo 2′

‘Harry Potter’ makeover: New book covers coming

Wednesday's TV Talk: Barbara Walters; Hugh Bonneville; Matt Damon

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- This Morning Chris Tsakalakis, StubHub. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today “Downtown Abbey” cast members; Anne Hathaway; Jamie...

Tags: Idina Menzel, TBS (tv network), Entertainment, Mario Batali , Alan Cumming

Hockey pro Russ Courtnall passes off to pop star Britney Spears

Pop star and singing competition judge Britney Spears has bought the Thousand Oaks home of former professional hockey player Russ Courtnall and his wife, actress Paris Vaughan. The property came on the market in August at $8.5 million and was withdrawn...

Tags: Merv Griffin, Jeopardy!, Music Industry, Tim Allen, All in the Family (tv program)

Friday's TV Talk: Catherine Zeta Jones; Keira Knightley; Jim Rome

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- CBS This Morning CEO Jessica Herrin, Stella & Dot. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Mark Bittman. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7...

Tags: Tony Bennett, Elijah Wood, Mark Feuerstein, Jim Rome, General Electric Company

Wednesday's Talk Shows: Paula Deen; Jane Fonda; Peter Jackson

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- CBS This Morning CEO Mark Pincus, Zynga. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Elijah Wood; Paula Deen. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America...

Tags: Entertainment, Don Johnson, Jenny McCarthy, Diana Krall, Alicia Keys

Thursday TV Talk: Billy Crystal; Katie Holmes; Quentin Tarantino

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 16 - 22 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- CBS This Morning David Letterman. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Cee Lo Green; the winner of “The Voice”; Leslie Mann. (N)...

Tags: Jon Bon Jovi, Penn Jillette, Jenny McCarthy, Judd Apatow, Damian Lewis

PASSINGS: John Ingle

John Ingle, 84, an actor who played scheming patriarch Edward Quartermaine on the daytime drama "General Hospital," died of cancer Sunday in Los Angeles, ABC said. Ingle took over the role as the ruthless businessman Quartermaine from actor David Lewis...

Tags: David Lewis, Hospitals and Clinics, Nicolas Cage, General Hospital (tv program), Big Love (tv program)

Review: 'Rain Dragon' by Jon Raymond doesn't think like a girl

Los Angeles Times

Rain Dragon A Novel Jon Raymond Bloomsbury: 272 pp., $16 paper FADE IN: A car idles in the foggy pre-dawn, pointed at the end of a cul-de-sac. Inside, an attractive 30-ish couple, DAMON and AMY, are worn from travel. She is dark-haired, pale-skinned...

Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Religion and Belief, Mildred Pierce (tv program), Philosophy, Jane Austen

'Drive' director Nicolas Winding Refn on serenading Ryan Gosling