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Actress Carey Mulligan poses for photographs for the film "Wildlife".

The first Cannes Film Festival after Harvey Weinstein’s downfall struggled with its place in the #MeToo era

December 13, 2018 at 10:16 a.m.

Chandeliers adorned the tables of this year’s amfAR gala, the fundraiser held at the tail-end of the Cannes Film Festival for the last 25 years, ornate centerpieces with glowing lampshades...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Before Tiffany Haddish took the stage with Maya Rudolph … a foot note

May 11, 2019 at 11:08 a.m.

Tiffany Haddish walked backstage clutching a glass of white wine. "Hold that for me," she said, looking at this reporter as she put it down on the table. "I'm coming...

Five women accuse James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior

August 22, 2019 at 2:20 a.m.

Five women accuse James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior By Daniel Miller and Amy Kaufman, The Los Angeles Times Jan 11, 2018 James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin /...

Russell Simmons, head of Def Jam Records, center, in gray shirt, is seen doing Yoga in class at the Jivamukti Yoga Studio. 3/16/2005 Photo by Jennifer S. Altman

5 more women accuse Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct

August 22, 2019 at 2:00 a.m.

Beneath the gaze of a Hindu goddess statue, a room full of beautiful young women took a deep breath as the instructor at Russell Simmons’ yoga studio asked the students...

Ratner, seen here at an event at his home in 2016, has denied all of Munn's claims.

Olivia Munn doesn’t understand why anyone is still working with Brett Ratner

December 17, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

It should have been a proud moment. After enduring what she described as sexual harassment by Brett Ratner, Olivia Munn felt she had finally shared her story, on the record...

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, six women -- including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge -- accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events.

Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

August 22, 2019 at 1:29 a.m.

Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct By Amy Kaufman and Daniel Miller Nov. 1, 2017 Director Brett Ratner (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Natasha...

Alcohol, sex and consent: Add TV cameras and the ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ party gets complicated

June 29, 2019 at 9:36 p.m.

Before the cameras even started rolling, Chad Johnson was drunk. Not tipsy; hammered. By the time production on "Bachelor in Paradise" kicked off at 11 a.m. in Sayulita, Mexico, the...

‘Snatched’ pair Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn enjoy an ‘unspoken’ bond

June 4, 2018 at 9:44 p.m.

Amy Schumer couldn't envision anyone but Goldie Hawn playing her mother. She'd grown up watching "Shampoo" and "Private Benjamin" and treasured her copy of the actress' spiritually infused memoir, "A...

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher at the Vanity Fairparty.

Barefoot and breathless at the Vanity Fair Oscar bash

June 19, 2019 at 3:12 p.m.

One hour. That's all I had. So obviously I had to lose the shoes. Sixty precious and specifically designated minutes are allotted to each reporter covering Vanity Fair's storied Oscar...

The oral history of ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ from Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and more

June 11, 2018 at 2:23 a.m.

If you were an unmarried woman in 2001 searching for Mr. Right, Bridget Jones was probably your spirit animal. Helen Fielding's bestselling 1996 novel introduced the world to Bridget, a...

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