Pickle just about anything at the Machine Project tonight. / Photo by ccarlstead via flickr. Sure there are a lot of places closed for President’s Day, but nightlife does exist in LA...even tonight: FILM Roman Polanski’s Chinatown focuses on an intricate water scandal and an even more twisted family backstory. Starring John Huston, Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson as Detective Jake Gittes – the city of Angels plays a major part of this nourish......

Photo courtesy of Alik Keplicz/AP Saturday is invariably both the best and worst day of the entire festival. It's the best in the sense that there is no shortage of high-profile movies, events and parties to attend. It's the worst in the sense that everyone--and I include the entire under-25 population of Salt Lake City--knows this. Saturday simply has the most intense crowds of the entire festival. It's the perfect day to avoid Main......

You've heard the original version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart," you've heard the disco remix, now hear the 80s power ballad sung in German as a duet between an innkeeper's beautiful daughter and the king of all vampires. It's called "Totale Finsternis" ("Total Darkness"), and it's the opening song from the Second Act of Tanz de Vampire (Dance of the Vampire), a musical remake of the 1967 Roman Polanski film The Fearless......

At left: Katie Holmes leaving Tiffany's Beverly Hills yesterday (via Just Jared) At right: Mia Farrow with director Roman Polanski on the steps of Tiffany's while filming Rosemary's Baby. Just a coincidence, we're sure. tags: katie holmes spawn......