LACMA Cancels Weekend Film Program
After the museum's weekend film program lost $1 million over the last 10 years, LACMA announced Tuesday it will kill the showcase that features films from the likes of Roman Polanski and Cary Grant.   LACMA's film series showcased art-house films, Hollywood classics and foreign-language films. The museum said it is not abandoning the program altogether, but hopes to find potential donors to underwrite any film project that will be curated. The museum does not know when that new project...

LACMA ends weekend film program
After four decades of series and special screenings, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is bringing down the curtain on its weekend film program. The program, which has screened retrospectives from directors including Roman Polanski and Ernst Lubitsch, as well as a collection of foreign and arthouse films, has lost $1 million over the past 10 years. According to a statement given by LACMA's director Michael Govan, the museum intends to revisit the project in the future "in order to reconsider...

Film Week: Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
James Mason was an actor whose complex emotional range and obvious intelligence pushed him more often than not into the villain (rather than leading man) category––a strange distinction for an acknowledged pacifist. Mason, who’d originally intended go into architecture, turned to film because during the depression when all employment dried up, getting a job as a architect was just as impossible as being an actor. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s film department pays...

The Ugly Truth of Gerard Butler
Interview with star Gerard Butler and review of the outrageously sexy romantic comedy The Ugly Truth from Columbia Pictures **** 4 Stars By Robin Rowe Gerard Butler in The Ugly Truth HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/23/09 - “I took inspiration from Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, the way the words are always flying in their films,” says The Ugly Truth star Gerard Butler. “The dynamic between men and women in this story is a little more outrageous than we’re used to seeing...

HBO's Roman Polanski problem.
Rewind: Tonight, HBO airs Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary that, according to the HBO press materials, raises "lasting questions about … the U.S. legal system." Without being exactly sympathetic to Polanski, the message of the film is clea

Jackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days
Los Angeles -On the day Michael Jackson died, his personal chef says her first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn't come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning.

Michael Jackson's Mom Just Wants More Information, Lawyer Says
A day after a Los Angeles judge rejected a plea by Michael Jackson 's mother, Katherine Jackson , to hold a special hearing on her request for more information about her late son's estate, the Jackson family matriarch's attorney explained her actions. Speaking on behalf of Katherine, attorney L. Londell McMillan issued a statement Wednesday (July 29) explaining the impetus behind Tuesday's pleadings.