Lena Dunham

The Gold Standard: It's time for Emmy to surprise us

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Backstage at the Emmys last year, reporters were squirming — and not just because of the ill-fitting rental tuxes and too-tight gowns. As "Modern Family" rolled to its third straight Emmy win for comedy series (after earlier pulling in prizes for...

A skin-care line that is not just another pretty toxic face

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Gregg Renfrew wants to change the way people live, starting with their cosmetics. Sitting in her light-filled office in Santa Monica, Renfrew rattles off the statistics she finds most alarming when it comes to some of the lotions, sprays and powders...

Review: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society taps into Brooklyn

2013-04-29 19:05:00

What does Brooklyn sound like? While the fashionably clad, underemployed youth of Lena Dunham's "Girls" may spring to mind given the New York City borough's pop cultural footprint, bandleader Darcy James Argue paints a broader picture of a time and...

Betty Halbreich, a perfect fit as Bergdorf Goodman's personal shopper

2013-04-28 00:00:00

— Within 30 seconds in her airy, orchid-filled office three floors above Central Park, Betty Halbreich had zeroed in on one of my chief torments as a professional woman. "I know why you have a problem with pants," Halbreich said dryly, patting...

Christina Aguilera is slim and sleek at Time 100 gala

2013-04-24 16:12:00

Christina Aguilera was slim and sleek at the Time 100 gala Tuesday for the magazine's celebration of its 100 most influential people. Aguilera, 32, and formerly a mentor on the "The Voice," wore a black Victoria Beckham cutout gown with Christian...

Christina and Mindy among Time's '100 Most Influential'? Really?

2013-04-18 13:01:00

Perhaps the editors of Time magazine need a refresher on the definition of� "influential." Some of their choices from the TV arena for the just-released "100 Most Influential People In The World" are clear and spot on. Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad,"...

Time 100: Jay-Z, JLaw, Duchess Kate among the most influential

2013-04-18 14:26:00

Time magazine has released its 10th annual list of the Time 100 most influential people of the year, and not surprisingly, a number of celebrities have been bestowed the honor. The magazine doesn't rank its picks but divvies up the 100 into five...

Tribeca 2013: 'Mad Men's' John Slattery takes an indie-film turn

2013-04-20 16:18:00

NEW YORK--As Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," John Slattery plays� it brash, slick and� debauched. But even a hard-drinking womanizer needs a break once in a� while. And so it was that Slattery found himself in Maine last year starring as Richard, a...

Colleges as country clubs

2013-04-21 00:00:00

My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour." But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about...

Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel on Time 100 list

2013-04-18 11:42:00

It's not as juicy as Forbes' annual highest-paid celebrities list, but the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people always provides plenty of conversational fodder, especially when it comes to which TV personalities made the list. Though...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Saturday Night Live' on NBC

2013-03-08 17:01:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 11 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Jude Law, Mila...

Carmen Electra at 40: Still red-hot in 'Baywatch' swimsuit

2013-02-28 16:18:00

Carmen Electra has slipped into her iconic "Baywatch" swimsuit a decade and a half after wearing it on the busty lifeguard drama. How's that for #throwbackthursday? The actress and former Playboy model last donned the red one-piece when she was 25,...

Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in "Girls."

2013-04-18 15:51:41

Lena Dunham and her cohorts on HBO's "Girls" often discuss their plight of being a twentysomething at New York's Cafe Grumpy. Alex Karpovsky's character works there as a jilted-but-lovable barista, often commenting on the patrons. The cafe, itself, sits snugly in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood.

2013-03-22 00:31:42

@LenaDunham Director-writer, "Girls," "Tiny Furniture" Why follow? Like her HBO comedy "Girls," her Twitter feed is funny, honest, revealing and unpredictable. It's also wonderful to witness how Dunham handles her critics without ever stooping to their level of disrespect. Sample tweet "Approx.

2013-03-19 00:00:00