The sliding door is open, palms swaying on a cool winter afternoon in Westwood, just a few days out from the 90th Academy Awards show. Eva Marie Saint will be an Oscar presenter, but at the moment she’s telling me about the 27th edition, back in 1955. She was nine months pregnant, and her husband,...

On Sunday, at the Oscars, Hollywood will celebrate itself yet again. This town spends so much time patting itself on the back, it’s a wonder any movies ever get made. This year, I keep hearing that the usually self-satisfied tone of the ceremony will be a bit different. Women are angry and empowere..

Satirical horror-thriller “Get Out” won the best feature award at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, where it also captured the director prize for Jordan Peele and left industry-watchers wondering if the annual independent film honors will predict Sunday’s winners at the 90th Academy Awards. There...

“Meryl Streep!” the 7-year-old shouted. “I’ve met Meryl Streep!” Viola Davis’ daughter, Genesis, bounded down the steps of the Oscars stage and hopped into the seat where “The Post” star would sit just a day later. With roughly 24 hours left until the Dolby Theatre opened its doors to for the Acade..

When Craig Wedren turned 45 — “literally to the day,” he recalled with a laugh — he began to slide into what he refers to openly as a midlife crisis. A well-regarded musician since he was his in late teens, when he formed the wildly inventive post-punk band Shudder to Think, Wedren suddenly found....

A look at the Oscars. A play about Jacqueline Kennedy. And an artist’s hallucinatory installation. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer with the Los Angeles times, with the week’s top culture stories and ancient art GIFs: IMAGE From here on out, I’ll be kicking off the newsletter each week with....

A celebrity and his accuser threw down, an Oscar tradition hit the streets, a theater picked its plays, a scandal just kept giving and a superstar didn’t need no stinkin’ pet store: Here’s all that news and more from this week in entertainment. Ryan Seacrest is the real victim here - unless he&#039..

“C’mon, y’all!” the singer exhorted, as several of his bandmates circled around him with a fiddle, mandolin and banjo and ripped into a bluegrass-inspired breakdown during a rendition of Lead Belly’s dark meditation on capital punishment, “Gallows Pole.” It was the kind of call to action you might...