After winning big at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the stars of “Modern Family” and “The King’s Speech” celebrated in the parking lot next to the Shrine Auditorium. That’s where the show’s official after party was held, a tent transforming it into a cozy lavender lounge, with pale purple carpets underfoot and drapes overhead. Situated [...]
Image Credit: Merrick MortonOn the heels of The King’s Speech’s surprising win at the Producers Guild Awards, the industry’s two other major guild prizes, the Directors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild, will be handed out this weekend. As is the case with the PGA, there is significant overlap between the other two guilds and [...]
Mario Monicelli, the Italian director known as one of the great “comedia all’Italiana” filmmakers for movies including “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “La Grande Guerra” (The Great War) in the 1950s and 60s, died Monday in Rome in an apparent suicide. He was 95. A spokeswoman for the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where [...]
It was a night of comebacks at the BET Awards, and none more unexpected than Chris Brown performing an emotional tribute to Michael Jackson. The embattled pop star has mostly kept a low profile since pleading guilty to felony assault for beating up Rihanna in February 2009. But here he was, center stage, mimicking Jackson’s [...]