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• A night for the ages Amy, Kanye refresh music's roots

  By Ann Powers  |  February 11, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  FROM the long march of dead and living forebears, to the Aretha-led gospel invocation, to Tom Hanks shouting about the Beatles as if they... more

• Everyman the younger

  By Robert W. Welkos  |  January 24, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  HE'S tall and slender with neatly cropped dark hair, a boyish grin and glasses -- just the kind of guy-next-door persona that allows the... more

• From reward to risk

  By Chris Lee  |  January 20, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Afunny thing happened to Rawson Marshall Thurber en route to becoming just another film school-educated, underemployed Hollywood hopeful no... more

• Coming not so soon after all

  By Jay A. Fernandez  |  January 13, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  IN mid-November, about two weeks into the Writers Guild strike, a handful of high-profile projects that were originally intended for filming... more

• Forecast for '08: gloom, with periods of ungloom

  By JOEL STEIN  |  December 31, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  How right were my 2007 predictions? Let's just say they included oil at $100 a barrel, the sub-prime meltdown and racist outbursts from Don... more

• Mismatched 'War' seems out of date

  By Kenneth Turan  |  December 21, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  "CHARLIE Wilson's War" is an anachronism, the wrong movie at the wrong time. Not only does it tell its tale in a style that feels dated and... more

• Nothing covert here

  December 16, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  WILL the real Charlie Wilson please stand up? That he did at the premiere of his film, "Charlie Wilson's War," at CityWalk Cinemas in Universal... more

• Mike Nichols' life in the trenches

  By Glenn Kenny  |  December 16, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  FROM the very beginning of his moviemaking career, director Mike Nichols has displayed an extraordinary knack for knowing what the adult moviegoing... more

• Splintered selections

  By Rachel Abramowitz  |  December 14, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  SO the 82-voting members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. have punted. They're either unable or unwilling to designate any sort of Oscar... more

• The jet set will land at the Globes

  By Chris Lee  |  December 14, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  Say what you will about the Golden Globes -- They're a reliable predictor for the Oscars! They're an empty gesture in celebrity ego stroking... more

• What happened to Lovely Rita???

  The Dish Rag  |  December 7, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  What the hey happened to Tom Hanks' gorgeous wife, Rita Wilson? The tea-stained teeth, the wrinkles, the dowdy duds and those gnarly gray... more

• Shuffle may spoil 'Wilson' holiday

  By John Horn  |  December 6, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  PEOPLE are forever rearranging holiday plans -- a Christmas party here, dinner with the folks there -- but it's unusual for a movie studio... more

• DARK HORSE ON THE RISE?

  By Pete Hammond  |  November 14, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  IN the race for best actor in 2002, four Hollywood Goliaths -- Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson and Nicolas Cage, all previous... more

• DON'T MENTION THE WAR

  By Ann Donahue  |  November 7, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  IN 2007, the early heavyweight contenders for Oscar are just that -- heavy. "In the Valley of Elah" deals with the death of a soldier after... more

• Honoring the scare givers

  October 28, 2007

  From Los Angeles Times

  HERE'S one awards show where Helen Mirren and Tom Hanks had no shot at a sweep of the honors: Spike TV's Scream 2007, which honored gore... more

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