Oscar Isaac would return to ‘Star Wars’ under one condition
Don’t expect to see Oscar Isaac reprise his role as hot-shot pilot Poe Dameron in the “Star Wars” franchise any time soon. The “Frankenstein” star admitted in a GQ interview…
Elizabeth Berkley: ‘Locked out’ of acting after ‘Showgirls’
Elizabeth Berkley has been on tour with “Showgirls” to commemorate its 30th anniversary — but 30 years ago there was nothing to celebrate. As the former “Saved by the Bell”…
David Szalay’s ‘risky’ novel ‘Flesh’ wins 2025 Booker Prize
Nearly a decade after his 2016 novel, “All That Man Is,” was passed over for the Booker Prize, David Szalay has taken home gold with his latest work, “Flesh.” “Flesh,”…
Why did Grizzly Bear reunite after eight years? ‘We needed to see who else we were’
Twenty years ago, Grizzly Bear emerged as unlikely torchbearers of the early-aughts indie rock boom, a moment when the genre still felt like a testing ground for young adulthood. Ed…
Zubin Mehta, at 89, still commands mammoth Bruckner
Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor emeritus and (without exaggeration) a living L.A. icon, returned last weekend to conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony with his old band. The score requires…
Oscar-nominated actress dead at 84
Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and…
Sally Kirkland dead: Oscar nominee and Globe winner was 84
Sally Kirkland, a prolific Golden Globe-winning star of stage and screen who was also nominated for an Academy Award, has died. The actor died early Tuesday morning in Palm Springs,…
Meet the ‘vato skateboarders’ from ‘One Battle After Another’
“It’s f— World War III out there,” says Gilberto Martinez Jr. as he skateboards while holding on to a car partway through Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed crime drama “One Battle…
Hollywood Bowl names stage after legendary composer John Williams
For generations of Angelenos, summer at the Hollywood Bowl meant John Williams on the podium, lightsabers glowing in the crowd as he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic through “Star Wars,”…
Destin Conrad on tour life, his jazz album and more
Destin Conrad didn’t expect to release a jazz project so early in his career — let alone just a few months after dropping his debut album, “Love on Digital.” The…