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After 15 years starring in CBS sitcoms like Mike & Molly, Billy Gardell is back doing what he’s always done best: stand-up comedy.
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For actors, there’s potential to generate revenue from their voice work without even being present.
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L.A. Pride, Best Friends at the Largo, Boyle Heights Youth Festival, a reimagined ballet, Run Lola Run on the big screen, EeeeeatsCon, and more.
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Now Skydance, which is run by David Ellison — son of Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest men — is reportedly offering to buy a majority stake in Paramount.
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We explore all the nuts and bolts that go into keeping the oldest permitted pride parade in the world rolling.
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Andrew Bird Trio performs at Lodge Room, Vroman’s hosts a Bonsai workshop, and more.
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It was a lackluster Memorial Day weekend for theaters. Here's what's going on in the movie industry.
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The Los Angeles Conservancy's film series "Last Remaining Seats" lets the audience step back in time.
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At the start of 2023, L.A. County was home to one-in-three film and TV jobs nationwide. Now it’s closer to one-in-four.
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What was considered the lifeblood of the Hollywood ecosystem now seems imperiled.
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Episode 3 of "Inheriting" focuses on the Cambodian community in Long Beach, and Victoria Uce's questions for her father about his childhood under the Khmer Rogue.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Earlier mergers, like Disney's 2019 acquisition of Fox, cut the number of films studios released theatrically — a troubling trend for theater owners already coping with consolidation and streaming.
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The Village Directors Circle, which bought the nearly century-old movie palace in February, will partner with American Cinematheque to operate and program the Village Theater.
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President Donald Trump continues to rage over late night comedians who make fun of him. This weekend he posted on social media that Seth Meyers has "no talent" and called for NBC to fire him.
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Nth Power jam at the Mint, the lights at Manhattan Beach Pier, Miranda July moderates a timely film screening at the LGBT Center and more of the best things to do this week.
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Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.
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The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
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The first three paintings sold for a record-shattering $662,000. Bonhams says the works attracted hundreds of registrations, more than twice the usual number for that type of sale.
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On FilmWeek, Larry speaks with author Samuel Garza Bernstein about his new biography Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell and Beandrea July review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
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Emmy-nominated host and writer Baratunde Thurston explores what it means to be human in the age of AI in his upcoming show in Long Beach.
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Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts play divorce lawyers at an all-female L.A. firm in All's Fair. The show has gotten bad reviews, but actual L.A. divorce attorneys had more generous assessments.
