Billy Dee Williams

African-American Film Critics name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film

2012-12-16 20:00:00

"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the search for terrorist Osama bin-Laden, continued its winning ways Sunday evening when it was named best film of 2012 by the African-American Film Critics Association. The film, which opens Wednesday,...

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell oceanfront house in Malibu

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu for $7.925 million. Their 2.5-acre estate in Hidden Hills remains on the market at $12.999 million. The three-story beach house features a walled garden, five bedrooms, five bathrooms...

'Star Wars' star Billy Dee Williams sells Beverly Hills home

2012-04-03 13:20:00

Actor Billy Dee Williams, known as Lando Calrissian to fans of the early "Star Wars" movies, has left his empire in Beverly Hills, selling his house for $2,790,600. Built in 1961 and set on more than half an acre in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood,...

Jeff Probst buys Gene Autry estate in Studio City

2011-04-16 00:00:00

"Survivor" host Jeff Probst has purchased the Gene Autry estate in Studio City for $5 million. Built in 1949 by the cowboy singer-actor, the forested 3.68-acre property had been donated by Autry's widow, Jacqueline Autry, to the Autry National Center...

Billy Dee Williams puts Beverly Hills home on the market

2011-03-30 16:23:00

Actor Billy Dee Williams has listed his longtime Beverly Hills house for sale at $4,499,000. On more than half an acre of mostly flat land, the contemporary home is surrounded by mature trees and tropical landscaping. The single-story house, built in...

Sneak peak: 'The Boondocks' returns Sunday to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim

2010-04-28 21:35:01

Harrison Ford returns to the 'Star Wars' universe -- for one night

2010-05-21 21:33:36

Vonetta McGee dies at 65; film actress during 1970s blaxploitation era

2010-07-15 00:00:00

Vonetta McGee, an actress whose big-screen heyday during the blaxploitation era of the 1970s included leading roles in "Blacula" and "Shaft in Africa," has died. She was 65. McGee died Friday at a hospital in Berkeley after experiencing cardiac arrest...

Holiday specials at Los Angeles-area spas

2008-12-28 00:00:00

Department stores and boutiques aren't the only places slicing prices this holiday season. Local day spas are full of specials: Kate Somerville Ongoing until Wednesday: This celebrity haven is giving customers a "buy one get one free" gift card offer...

The Sorrow Behind the Spotlight

1992-11-13 00:00:00

"The Jacksons--An American Dream" is that rare television biography that sings, though its tune is frequently downbeat. It's a rocking, pulsating, gyrating, bewitching five hours that resonate the angry rhythms behind the joyous music of a dysfunctional...

Old-school Beavers by the numbers in federal court

2013-03-15 00:00:00

There's nothing like watching a defense lawyer in federal court playing three-card monte with his mouth. Sam Adam Jr. didn't set up a table and put three bent cards in front of the federal jury. And he didn't play that other, similar game, the one with...

Taking science to the masses

2013-03-08 00:00:00

Neil Shubin has the wide, happy eyes of a Muppet and the casual, ingratiating prattle of a car salesman. His thick, graying hair lends gravitas. He has written a new book, and on a bitter afternoon in Hyde Park he is explaining to me how he writes....

"Sending up the blaxploitation films of the 1970s would seem an easy and pointless exercise, but this is a spoof comedy that, for once, has an actual point of view. ... No one is going to mistake 'Undercover Brother' for high-end cinema. Yet the movie does primarily what it sets out to do.

2013-03-04 12:07:27

Damn, he looks good! Billy Dee Williams turns 72 today. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

2013-02-18 18:30:00

Actor Billy Dee Williams ' longtime Beverly Hills house.

2011-03-31 14:24:08