Laura Dern

HBO cancels 'Enlightened'

2013-03-19 17:38:00

HBO has canceled its low-rated critical darling "Enlightened." The series, created by Mike White and Laura Dern, centered on Amy Jellicoe (Dern), a self-destructive woman who undergoes a spiritual awakening and takes on a path bent on reforming her...

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Rip the Runway 2013' on BET

2013-03-19 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Arrow Jessica De Gouw reprises her role as...

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...

Boys' basketball: Buckley is seeking first title

2013-02-25 09:04:33

Oscars 2013: The A-list descends upon Vanity Fair's after-party

2013-02-25 12:43:00

The guest list at Graydon Carter’s famous Vanity Fair Oscar party was as long on A-list celebrities as the telecast itself was short on laughs. The winners in every major category, including Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christoph Waltz and Ang...

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...

Friday TV Talk Shows: Jane Lynch; Robert Zimmerman; Kathy Griffin

2013-02-14 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 10 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC Live With Kelly and...

Christina Ricci engaged to boyfriend James Heerdegen

2013-02-01 18:15:00

Christina Ricci and her boyfriend James Heerdegen are engaged! The "Pan Am" actress and the dolly grip met on the set of that canceled ABC period drama, and apparently their engagement is almost old news. The actress had been sporting what looked...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Five-Year Engagement' on HBO

2013-02-01 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Girls: The Lena Dunham comedy, which usually airs on Sunday nights, offers a new episode a day early (10:05 p.m....

Conrad Bain of 'Diff'rent Strokes' dies; co-stars' tragedies 'painful'

2013-01-16 11:48:00

Conrad Bain, the actor who played a white millionaire who adopted�two African American boys on the NBC comedy "Diff'rent Strokes," has died. He was 89. Bain's daughter Jennifer said�Bain died of natural causes in Livermore, where he had been moved to...

Laura Dern's 'Enlightened' approach

2013-01-15 06:00:00

Season 2 of HBO's "Enlightened" finds Laura Dern as fortysomething executive Amy Jellicoe conspiring with an egotistical Los Angeles Times muckraker (Dermot Mulroney) to bring down her corporate overlords. Well-meaning but hopelessly naive — "I'm...

'Biggest Loser' recap: Red team's gym work fails them on scale

2013-01-15 12:11:00

"The Biggest Loser's" Cate Laughlan said the red team put in the work in the gym. It just didn't show up on the scale. "It was not a reflection about the work we did," she said of the team's abysmal weight-loss numbers. The only person more unhappy than...

Scene from the HBO series "Enlightened." Photo shows Mike White, left and Laura Dern. Photo credit: Prashant Gupta/HBO

2013-03-19 17:28:34

Although HBO could still be considered in a bit of a slump ("Boardwalk Empire" and "Treme," you're not as compelling as you think), this dark comedy series from Mike White and Laura Dern is a true, eccentric pleasure. Particularly Dern, who nails the role of an unhinged, unpredictable professional

2013-03-15 19:17:00

Golden Globe winning actress Laura Dern is 44 today and will be celebrating with hubby Ben Harper.

2013-01-24 17:57:00