Things you might need to know for this weekend's backyard BBQs: A whopping 38.4 million people watched Barack Obama's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, a better turnout than for the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and...
Could this year's crop of Oscar contenders stop the boxoffice momentum in its tracks? Don't mean to be killjoys here, but in looking over various lists of Oscar hopefuls, some of them showing for the first time at the Sept....
Gratuitous true crime reality TV? Bring it on, complete with cheesy re-enactments, shaky hand-held cameras and dramatizations that have emerged as a likely source of work for at least some of L.A.'s bottomless pool of wait staffers. So, with much...
