Michael Douglas

Oscar producers preparing furiously for an intricate show

2013-02-23 07:00:00

Amid the whir of drills and the odor of wet paint, the stage floor at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood yawned open Friday morning to reveal a 341/2 -foot-deep chasm. "Everybody in the house, please be aware I'm opening the hole!" a worker yelled from...

Winter TCA: Elisabeth Moss takes break from ad world to find a missing girl in 'Top of the Lake'

2013-01-05 15:00:00

This story has been updated. See below. One day, Elisabeth Moss (as Peggy) is giving her notice to Don Draper; the next, she’s in an unheated shed in the outskirts of Queenstown, New Zealand, rehearsing for a Jane Campion mystery. “It...

Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped

2013-02-15 08:00:00

I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...

Zoe Saldana, Hilary Swank, Jada Pinkett Smith watch Michael Kors

2013-02-14 07:50:00

Michael Kors' show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday brought out a Hollywood A-list of a front row: Michael Douglas, Zoe Saldana, Hilary Swank and Jada Pinkett Smith with daughter Willow, along with Broadway star and onetime "30 Rock" guest star...

PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...

Cedillo, Gardea and the two L.A.s, 20 years after 'Falling Down'

2013-02-12 06:49:00

There is a scene in the movie “Falling Down” -- released almost exactly 20 years ago -- in which laid-off aerospace engineer William Foster tangles with a couple of gang members on a vacant hill just west of downtown Los Angeles. The film is a...

Las Vegas: Liberace Experience to open in downtown's Neonopolis

2013-02-01 08:45:00

Liberace is poised for a comeback in Las Vegas. The pianist known as Mr. Showmanship will again take center stage with the expected January 2014 opening of the Liberace Experience downtown. The attraction will be housed in Neonopolis, the Fremont Street...

Winter TCA: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon mate in Liberace biopic

2013-01-05 07:33:00

That the life of pianist Liberace was flamboyant was beyond compare — maybe a little too flamboyant for the movie studios. So Steven Soderbergh's new Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" is headed to HBO, with Michael Douglas playing the...

Michael Douglas' son Cameron reportedly beaten badly in prison

2012-12-17 12:26:00

Michael Douglas' son reportedly has been beaten in a Pennsylvania prison, winding up with a broken finger and a broken leg. Cameron Douglas, 34, suffered the injuries — including a broken femur — after a New York City crime boss put a $100...

'Butterfly' subtext in 'Fatal Attraction' still can't be ignored

2012-11-28 13:49:00

A man has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her. The woman, now with child, longs for his return but is coldly rebuffed. Humiliated and left with nothing to live for, she kills herself with a sharp blade to the throat. The story of Puccini's...

Friday's TV Talk Shows: Ewan McGregor; Cory Booker; Judd Apatow

2012-12-13 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Ewan McGregor; Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. (N) 7 a.m....

Celebrities party for a good cause

2012-08-26 00:00:00

Celebrity presence has always been an essential part of the game at Los Angeles charity events, but this fall organizers may have outdone themselves. Consider: George Clooney will be honored at the Carousel of Hope Ball. Leonardo DiCaprio is co-chairing...

Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda present the Oscar for best director.

2013-02-24 21:03:05

If Ryan Seacrest looked freshly captivated by Catherine Zeta-Jones' look on the red carpet, so did her fellow-Oscar-winner husband, Michael Douglas ... who claimed he'd first seen it only 15 minutes before. As he explained to Seacrest, "You have to give a little space.

2013-02-24 16:47:40

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

2013-02-24 16:20:00