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  • Review: Pop star Gaga is back, but where's the art or spark?

    Updated May 29, 2020

    MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer In the 12 years since Lady Gaga dropped her first album, the singer has exceptionally shown that she knows how to create a killer album. "The Fame" was danceable and clever. "The Fame Monster" was an epic adventure into her darker mind. "Born This Way" brilliantly wove in elements of rock and house with her signature pop. Though she might have tripped over her disco ball on "ARTPOP," the album still had direction and character. And "Joanne" was a...

  • 'Green Book' wins Best Picture Oscar; Malek, Colman take top acting honors

    City News Service|Updated Feb 25, 2019

    HOLLYWOOD - In a ceremony that made history for the diversity of its winners, the 1960s race-relations road-trip film "Green Book'' was named best picture at the 91st Oscars, while Rami Malek won the prize for best actor and Olivia Colman pulled off an upset to be named best actress. "Green Book,'' the depiction of the friendship that blossoms between a black master pianist and the gruff New York bouncer he hires as his bodyguard for a tour of the 1960s Deep South, also won Oscars for best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali...

  • Actress/director Penny Marshall dies at age 75

    City News Service|Updated Dec 18, 2018

    LOS ANGELES - Funeral services were pending today for Penny Marshall, who rose to fame portraying street-wise Laverne De Fazio in the 1970s sitcom "Laverne and Shirley'' but later became a successful director by helming films such as "Big'' and "A League of Their Own.'' Marshall died Monday at her Hollywood Hills home due to complications of diabetes, according to a family spokeswoman. She was 75. "Our family is heartbroken over the passing of Penny Marshall,'' according to a statement from her family. Born in the Bronx --...

  • Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee dies at 95

    City News Service|Updated Nov 12, 2018

    LOS ANGELES - Stan Lee, the co-founder of Marvel Comics and the man behind Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Black Panther, died Monday, Nov. 12 after being rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from his Hollywood Hills home. He was 95. Lee's death was first reported by TMZ.com. Paramedics where dispatched at 8:34 a.m. to a Hollywood Hills home in the 9100 block of West Oriole Way, on a medical response call for a 95-year-old man, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department....

  • Box Office: Hollywood 'Halloween' horrors hit heights

    City News Service|Updated Oct 21, 2018

    LOS ANGELES - America's thirst for big screen gore soared to new heights this weekend, as Jamie Lee Curtis returned to star in a revival of "Halloween'' -- and took the movie to an estimated $77.5 million in box office receipts this weekend. Three of the five top movies this weekend in the United States were in the horror/slasher groove, and Hollywood box office receipts are nearly 55 percent ahead of last year at this point, on track to set a blistering industry record. "Hall...

  • 'America's Got Talent' finalist released after posting bail

    City News Service|Updated Sep 22, 2018

    HOLLYWOOD - An ''America's Got Talent'' finalist was out on bail and awaiting a court hearing after being arrested on suspicion of domestic violence. Michael Ketterer, 41, was taken into custody at 3:45 p.m. Thursday by officers who responded to a domestic dispute call and noticed a red mark on his girlfriend's body, according to Officer Tony Im with the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Division. The exact location of Ketterer's arrest was not disclosed. Ketterer posted $50,000 bail Friday and was released...

  • Julie Chen leaves 'The Talk'

    City News Service|Updated Sep 18, 2018

    STUDIO CITY - Julie Chen, wife of former CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves, confirmed on Tuesday that she is walking away from her role as a co-host of the network's daytime talk show "The Talk.'' "I need to spend more time at home with my husband and our young son, so I've decided to leave 'The Talk,''' Chen said in a videotaped message that was aired on the show Tuesday. She said she will "always cherish the memories we shared.'' "I know this show and the sisterhood it stands for will continue for many years to come,'' Chen said....

  • 'Game of Thrones,' 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' top Emmy awards

    City News Service|Updated Sep 18, 2018

    LOS ANGELES - HBO's "Game of Thrones'' was back on its throne as television's best drama series Monday night, having won the Emmy for the third time in four years following a one-year absence from eligibility, while Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' was the big winner with five Emmys, including best comedy series. "Game of Thrones'' took home only one other prize at the 70th Emmy Awards Monday night at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles -- a supporting drama actor prize for Peter Dinklage for his role as...