Somehow, itâs not quite the same as running into George Clooney. As native Angelenos know, casually bumping into movie stars is a likely possibility. A chance meeting can occur while waiting for a table at L.A. Live, standing in the luggage queue at LAX or even just walking the streets of Beverly Hills. And when [...]
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Artists expand sounds with epic, lush tracks
A good song is like a good book â both are able to transport you to a totally awesome world of wonder and impossibility ⊠at least for a few minutes. The best songs are the ones in which you can actually feel the energy, the mystery or the fun of what the artist is [...]
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Itâs 1993. Many current USC undergraduates arenât even born yet. Michael Jordan is on fire. Cheers airs its last episode. Unforgiven wins the Oscar for best picture. And perhaps most important, current Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore wins Miss USA. But something else happened in 1993. Something that might have felt small at [...]
Read the rest of this article »TV still plagued by gender gap
There are dramatically fewer female writers than male writers working in the television industry, according to a new study released by the Writers Guild of America, West, which examined employment patterns for writers from the 2011-12 television season. In a world that seems to have progressed in the matter of gender equality, not only is [...]
Read the rest of this article »Different genres duke it out in the box office
It was another robust weekend at the box office as four films managed to earn more than $18 million each, with the Evil Dead remake hauling in $25.7 million âwhich is more than the rest of the franchise combined. Though Evil Dead didnât turn out to be the most terrifying film ever (as it declared [...]
Read the rest of this article »E-book trend doesnât lessen joy of reading
They are easily downloadable, cheap â if not free â and highly portable for those settling in on a long plane ride. And though no oneâs quite sure when they first arrived, e-books have confounded the publishing world since they first reached mainstream success in 2007, when Amazon unveiled its Kindle e-reader. For bibliophiles, the [...]
Read the rest of this article »Artists travel down new roads this week
Even though bands create their images based on a certain sound or by conquering a particular genre, itâs always good to shake things up a bit. Experimenting with different music styles is always a risky endeavor, though, since no one â neither the band nor the audience â truly knows how the experiment will turn [...]
Read the rest of this article ȉ60s style takes over runway
Everyone was waiting for it, counting down the days until April 7 arrived. Holding their breaths, biting their nails, hearts pounding in anticipation. The Mad Men season six premiere. It seemed like you couldnât sign on to a news feed or walk into a coffee shop without hearing someone moaning and crying over how badly [...]
Read the rest of this article »Modern audiences gravitate to television storytelling format
Have we reached a point where television is more influential to popular culture than film? Thatâs what Vanity Fair seems to argue, at least. The lifestyle magazine made a point to say that television, rather than film, âenriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture,â as culture critic James Wolcott was quoted as [...]
Read the rest of this article »Jurassic Park looks to wipe out competition
The box office rose to nice enough levels over the Easter weekend, with G.I. Joe: Retaliation commandeering a $51 million-plus total for its four-day opening weekend. Though thatâs slightly less than the take of its predecessor, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, that film opened in the middle of the summer. The real story is [...]
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