Al Pacino

The problem with David Mamet

2013-03-29 16:10:00

Critic's Notebook: The dramatist who used to regularly scorch the stage with complex stories has let his anti-P.C. rage blunt his work. What in the world has happened to David Mamet? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Glengarry Glen Ross," a modern...

TV This Week for March 24th-30th: 'Phil Spector' on HBO

2013-03-23 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SUNDAY There is nothing like a dame:...

'Phil Spector,' on trial

2013-03-21 06:00:00

Are you planning to watch HBO's "Phil Spector"? Then step into my cubicle. We need to talk. I'm just a reporter, so my opinions about film aesthetics don't add up to much, but as one of the only journalists to cover both of Spector's murder trials, I...

Altman, Pacino and Hope and Crosby among weekend highlights

2013-03-14 06:00:00

An early film by Robert Atman, a sneak preview of Al Pacino as Phil Spector and a�Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" picture double bill are among the highlights this weekend. The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation offers a rare...

Review: Mario Ybarra Jr. deftly mixes reality and fiction

2013-03-08 11:18:00

In "Double Feature," his first exhibition with Honor Fraser, Mario Ybarra Jr. explores the probably universal impulse toward cinematic identification, playing with the ways in which we project ourselves into the roles we encounter on the silver screen...

Valerie Perrine went from Vegas showgirl to Hollywood star

2013-03-06 06:30:00

Valerie Perrine may be the only former Las Vegas showgirl to win the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Just a few years after she had hung up her glitzy showgirl costume, Perrine was the toast of the town as Lenny Bruce's stripper/showgirl...

Shia LeBeouf tweets about backstage drama with Alec Baldwin

2013-02-21 07:50:00

Mix two actors with reputations for passion and stormy personalities and it's not surprising things did not turn out as planned for an upcoming Broadway production of "Orphans" that was to have starred Shia LeBeouf and Alec Baldwin. LeBeouf quit the...

Directors race too tight to call. Mayweather jumps to Showtime.

2013-02-20 07:13:00

After the coffee. Before seeing if my computer's been hacked too. The Skinny: The two shows you should be watching are ABC's "Nashville" and HBO's "Enlightened." I've liked "Nashville" from the get-go and have come around on "Enlightened." Laura Dern...

Shia LaBeouf quits Broadway play over 'creative differences'

2013-02-20 11:35:00

Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differences," according to a news release sent Wednesday.� LaBeouf has...

'Die Hard' is soft. 'Safe Haven' is strong. UFC vs. Bellator.

2013-02-19 08:21:00

After the coffee. Before getting back into work mode. The Skinny: I watched "The Following" last night and fear it has started to take a bad turn. I don't want to play spoiler but I do hate it when a character does something they never would do in the...

Brandt Jobe feels good about his 66

2013-02-14 19:25:00

The highlight for Brandt Jobe after Thursday's first round of the Northern Trust Open was not his five-under-par 66 and his third-place standing. It was that he could shoot 66 at Riviera and sit at a news conference without any pain. If the movie people...

Teen girls give zombie romance 'Warm Bodies' a healthy box office

2013-02-03 09:16:00

While most Americans will camp out in front of their televisions with seven-layer dip watching the Super Bowl this afternoon, a relative handful of teen girls is likely to head to the multiplex instead. Young female moviegoers pushed "Warm Bodies"...

Oscar-winner Al Pacino got to recite the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech multiple times as Shylock in both the 2004 film and the 2010 Broadway production of "The Merchant of Venice."

2013-04-01 15:05:48

Franco's controversial film "Interior. Leather Bar." attempts to recreate 40 minutes of footage left on the cutting room floor from Al Pacino's 1980 film "Cruising." The actor playing Pacino, Val Lauren, is pretty blunt in the movie� about his discomfort about being in the movie.

2013-03-27 08:04:00

Al Pacino stars in the HBO film "Phil Spector."

2013-03-20 18:32:00