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Stay in LA campaign holds rally to encourage local film production

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

Attended by actors, crew members, business owners, community organizers and union officials, Sunday’s rally was the group’s first since it launched a petition in January signed by more than 22,000. Stay in LA, the grassroots campaign aimed at boosting film and television production in Los Angeles, held a rally in Sun Valley on Sunday to draw attention to the struggling local entertainment industry.
Jay North, child actor who played 'Dennis the Menace,' dies at 73

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

Jay North, who starred as the blond, mischievous troublemaker Dennis Mitchell on the popular CBS comedy “Dennis the Menace,” has died. He was 73. North died at his home in Lake Butler, Fla., on Sunday after a long fight with cancer, according to a Facebook post by his friend Laurie Jacobson, who said his “Dennis the Menace” co-star Jeannie Russell called her with the “terribly sad, but not unexpected news.”“As many of his fans know, he had a difficult journey in Hollywood and after ...
Minecraft opens with record-breaking $157 million domestic box office

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

“A Minecraft Movie” injected some much-needed life into the slumbering box office with a record-breaking $157-million domestic opening and $144 million overseas. The movie, starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge, shattered expectations, doubling some pre-weekend estimates. It took the top slot for a video game adaptation, eclipsing “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” launch in 2023, which grossed $146.4 million.
Minecraft opens with record-breaking $157 million domestic box office

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Stacy Perman

I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive Lucasfilm for cancelling The Acolyte. Before its debut, Darth Plagueis is a figure that had only ever been named dropped …
Kanye West and the story of Donda Academy's spectacular spiral

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

It began, as many things do, with noble intentions. In the fall of 2020, Kanye West, music impresario, fashion designer, flame thrower and Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband, founded a private school.
'People should be worried': 23andMe bankruptcy could expose customers' genetic data

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen |Stacy Perman

When Christina Snyder Monahan of Irvine first received her genetic results from 23andMe three years ago, she thought there was a mistake. The DNA sample she had sent to the company revealed that she was nearly 50% Persian, though to her knowledge, she didn’t have any Persian relatives. More than a year later, her mother admitted to having an “encounter” with another man, who was her actual biological father and not the man who raised her.
Golden Globes ends policy of paying 50 voting members $75,000 salaries

1 month ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

A spokesperson said the policy change was “an acknowledgment that continuing to pay members could add to a perception of bias in voting.”The Golden Globes has terminated its policy of paying $75,000 annual salaries to former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Helen Hoehne, the organization’s president made the announcement on a Zoom call Friday, with the 50 members who will no longer be paid as voting members of the Globes.
Beloved owner of one of Hollywood's last costume shops dies at 90

1 month ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

Ursula Boschet at her iconic shop last summer after announcing that after more than half a century in business it was time to say goodbye. Ursula Boschet, the iconic Hollywood costume designer, whose shop draped celebrities and civilians for more than half a century, has died. She was 90. Boschet died Monday afternoon of pancreatic cancer surrounded by family at her home in Chatsworth, a spokesperson for the family confirmed.
Beyond 'Emilia Pérez': Inside 7 of the nastiest Oscar campaigns in history

2 months ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

By the time “Emilia Pérez” had garnered 13 Oscar nominations, including for best picture, Netflix’s Spanish-language musical about a transgender drug lord had already been mired in controversy. Critics skewered the film’s portrayal of trans issues and Mexican culture. Then Karla Sofía Gascón’s in which the first out trans performer to receive a lead actress nod maligned Muslims, George Floyd and diversity and seemed to body-shame the singer Adele.
Leonard Cohen's estate locked in another lawsuit

2 months ago | latimes.com | Stacy Perman

In 2008, acclaimed singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen staged a surprising comeback. At the age of 73, he embarked on a five-year world tour in order to replenish his coffers after his former manager was accused of embezzling millions from him, leaving him nearly broke. Often wearing his signature bolo tie and fedora, he performed three-hour sets to sold-out crowds filled with rapturous audiences, many of whom were discovering the enigmatic poet for the first time.