Casting directors and actors share their experiences auditioning via Zoom, self-tapes and — in rare cases — in person amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Singer-songwriter Demi Lovato and actor Max Ehrich end their engagement. The pair had been dating since March, and Ehrich proposed in July.
Prince’s landmark “Sign O’ the Times” has been reissued as a box set. Critics Mikael Wood, Daphne Brooks, Naima Cochrane and Michaelangelo Matos on its legacy.
Acclaimed California heavy band Deftones’ new album, ‘Ohms,’ was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and will be released without a supporting tour.
On the latest episode of his podcast, “Armchair Expert,” actor Dax Shepard reflected on his struggles with substance abuse after a recent relapse.
Fall Music Preview
Turning to music to ease quarantine blues? Here are 20 albums our experts are most looking forward to and previews of new music from L.A.-based Ty Dolla Sign, Shamir, Beabadoobee and former Beyoncé songwriter Saint Jhn. A reissue of Tom Petty’s 1994 “Wildflowers” will also drop soon, along with a Mariah Carey memoir. In the meantime, catch up on how TikTok is changing pop music and Bandcamp is disrupting streaming.
Fall may not bring starlit shows at the Hollywood Bowl, but it does offer enough great new music to fill your playlists through the end of this miserable year.
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After their nationally televised acceptance speeches, some of the 2020 Emmy winners had more to say to the press. We’ve rounded up the best responses here.
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From Zendaya’s euphoric — and historic — win to the ‘Schitt’s Creek’ sweep, here’s what you missed at Sunday’s Emmy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
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Find out the winners of the 2020 Emmys with our complete list, updating live during Sunday night’s ceremony.
JANM and EWP are among 20 BIPOC arts organizations receiving “game changer” pandemic funding from a Ford Foundation-led program.
L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis and other poets shared experiences and verse with L.A. Times Book Club readers.
Disney has pushed back the release dates for ‘Black Widow,’ ‘Death on the Nile’ and multiple other films, in a blow to movie theaters.
Productions from the Fountain, A.C.T., Pig Iron and La Jolla Playhouse are admirably ambitious at times, but they also reveal the limits of digital.
Two E! hosts, Giuliana Rancic and Vivica A. Fox, released statements during the Emmys red-carpet preshow announcing they tested positive for COVID-19.
Warner Bros.’ ‘Tenet’ continues to do modest business with $36.1 million in North American receipts and a global cumulative of $250.1 million.
Van Morrison is planning to release three new songs that take a swipe at coronavirus restrictions imposed by the British government.
L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis joins the L.A. Times Book Club Sept. 24 for Black Poets in a Time of Unrest, an evening of discussion and poetry performances.
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‘The Great British Baking Show’ is back on Netflix for its 11th season to offer us a sweet escape from the misery of 2020.
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Former collaborators Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin each have new movies. Campos made Netflix’s ‘The Devil All the Time,’ while Durkin has IFC’s ‘The Nest.’
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Actress Drew Barrymore reunited with ex-husband Tom Green on her talk show Friday after not speaking to him face to face for about 15 years.
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What’s on TV Saturday, Sept. 26, plus Sunday talk shows: Movie “Falling for Look Lodge” on Hallmark; college football; MLB baseball; Stanley Cup Final
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“Fast & Furious” franchise star Vin Diesel released his debut single “Feel Like I Do” on Friday and we don’t hate it.
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Marla Berns, who brought free admission and a new name to the Fowler Museum, will retire at the end of the academic year.
“The Boys in the Band” — Mart Crowley’s landmark gay story that’s at once dated and timely — captures the bonds of friendship, even when it gets ugly.
In"Mayday!” Susan Silton tracks the pandemic’s toll and “the collective weight of people mourning” by having participants send names of the country’s COVID-19 dead to Donald Trump. She also looks back at the way U.S. media covered Hitler’s rise.
The L.A. Phil launches its concert series filmed without audience at the Hollywood Bowl. Also this weekend: “Fame,” Maria Bamford, dinos for kids.
When Japanese immigrants moved into one of Riverside’s nicest — and whitest — downtown neighborhoods in the early 1900s, it caused an uproar. The family had to fight to stay -- and won.
One of 12 existing portraits by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and could fetch more than $80 million.
Sex, art, politics, intersectional feminism. The L.A. hosts of a Latina-centric podcast are reaching fans with conversations that get very real.
A trailer for “A POTENTIALITY” by filmmaker Dana Berman Duff, inspired by Susan Silton’s work of the same name.
For British stage veteran Joseph Marcell, traveling from London to Los Angeles to film ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ reunion was worth the risk.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video startup launched with $1.75 billion but is already looking for a buyer.
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Rolling Stone, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter will be joined under a new company operated by Penske, while MRC will run another venture to create film and television content.
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Entertainment industry unions have agreed terms over which their members can return to work for studios, including terms for payment if TV or film crew get sick
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“Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” Ric Burns’ majestic documentary, profiles the unconventional physician with a talent for writing bestselling books.
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Andrew Cohn’s “The Last Shift,” starring Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie, is a wan comedy-drama that takes aim at white privilege.
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The documentary “Kiss the Ground,” narrated by Woody Harrelson, makes the case that by regenerating the Earth’s soils, we can balance the climate and save the world.
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From the director of “City of Gold,” “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles” is a fun documentary about a high-end pastry party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has denied allegations that he shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot after the “WAP” hitmaker called him out for “lying” about it.
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Lizzo celebrated the ‘blackest and brownest’ Vogue cover ever with deep words about Breonna Taylor, Kamala Harris and being a Black woman in America.
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Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year Carrie Underwood will release her holiday album “The Gift” tomorrow — and bring it to HBO Max with a holiday special.
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Shaken by the death of his friend Nipsey Hussle, run-ins with the police and the Black Lives Matter protests, YG returns with his darkest album yet.
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As part of ‘Lie Witness News,’ Kimmel told passersby that the president had nominated his daughter Ivanka for the high court. Many were OK with that.
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Jeff Pearlman talks about “Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty,” which he started writing before Bryant’s death.
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The schedule unveiled Thursday also features Ayad Akhtar, Marlon James and actor Henry Winkler. The online festival — 25 events marking 25 years — begins Oct. 18.
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‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey,’ the pop star’s tell-some memoir, sparkles and entertains and explains its subject, despite a few too many I-don’t-know-hers.
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Bestsellers List Sun., Sept. 27, 2020
