In Screen Gab No. 180, we get you ready for the final chapter of the “Star Wars” prequel, and our experts recommend two streaming series.
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‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ screens at the Academy Museum. Rilo Kiely reunites at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas retires.
Hero Complex
The actor, who plays Chandrilan Senator Mon Mothma, breaks down the journey of the future Rebel Alliance leader and her big speech denouncing the Emperor in Episode 9.
The Immersive Invitational, now in its fourth year, celebrates the communal power of interactive fiction. Participating companies have 48 hours to create a 10-minute show.
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Nicholson is a double Emmy contender this season for Hulu’s postapocalyptic drama ‘Paradise’ and Max’s backstage comedy ‘Hacks.’
David and Jessica Oyelowo, whose Yoruba Saxon label is behind Apple TV+ series “Government Cheese,” are “normalizing the marginalized” — even against political headwinds.
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An emboldened president and his allies have launched a vigorous campaign to use levers of government to intimidate an increasingly fragmented and polarized media, experts say.
In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu’s Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?
Critics
The 70-year-old rock singer performed Van Halen classics at the M3 music festival in Columbia, Md. His 1985 replacement in the band, Sammy Hagar, has been vocal lately.
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Glendale-born comedian Jack Jr. will bring 16 years of his funniest material to the Alex Theatre for a hometown special taping May 17.
Chloë Sevigny and Alex Wolff play Vice-style journalists in Amalia Ulman’s latest social satire, a take on “Eat, Pray, Love” in which no one learns a thing.
Evan Halleck says pursuing this project is “the most creatively alive” he’s felt since moving to L.A. 12 years ago to start his film career.
The image Lester Sloan took of Hockney has become a hall of mirrors, an entrance into the very notion of what a mother means. What it means to lose her.
Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, Jennifer Aniston’s alleged stalker, faces felony stalking and vandalism charges. He’s accused of driving his car into the gate of her Bel-Air home.
Brad Arnold, the lead singer of 3 Doors Down, announced that the American rock band’s summer tour would be canceled for a heartbreaking reason — he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer that has spread to his lungs.
People watching stars head from the Carlyle to the Met Gala were aghast when a ‘furious’ woman tried to enter the hotel. Turns out she’s a celebrity stylist.
Actor Michael Pitt, known for ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ was accused of sexual abuse and assault, among other counts, in a recent indictment filed in New York.
Barry Diller is making public revelations ahead of the release of his memoir. He is a gay man — something friends knew — who loves his wife Diane von Furstenberg.
As President Trump launches an offensive against ‘woke’ art, the Picasso Museum shows the kind of works that the Nazis singled out decades ago for mockery or destruction.
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