Vice (movie)

Alt-news mogul aims to rock prime-time with 'Vice'

2013-04-03 05:00:00

Big and beefy with a scraggly beard, Shane Smith looks more like an aging roadie than a thrill-seeking foreign correspondent or a budding media mogul. But Smith is both those things. Vice Media Group, the company Smith co-founded and is chief...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly meets Dennis Rodman

2013-02-28 11:16:00

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down Thursday for a rare meeting with an American – the pierced, provocative former basketball star Dennis Rodman, according to media reports. Rodman reportedly chatted with Kim as they sat side by side at a...

Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story

2013-02-25 20:45:00

On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...

Chinese government launches screenwriting contest for U.S. writers

2013-03-03 19:54:00

In the latest effort by China to expand its cultural influence and build stronger ties to Hollywood, government officials in Beijing are looking for U.S.-based screenwriters to help tell their stories. The Cultural Assets Office of the Beijing Municipal...

Snoop Dogg was gangsta; Snoop Lion is Rasta

2013-03-16 07:30:00

Snoop Dogg had come to Burbank to let loose the lion. Engulfed by a haze of marijuana smoke thick as London fog in a hotel suite high above the so-called Media Capital of the World, the gangsta rap superstar surrendered himself to a hairdresser's...

Review: 'Reincarnated' gets personal with Snoop Lion

2013-03-14 18:16:00

First he was Snoop Doggy Dogg, then simply Snoop Dogg. Now, 20 years after the release of his debut single as a solo artist — the still-vibrant "Who Am I (What's My Name?)" — the laid-back rapper from Long Beach has altered his identity once...

Dennis Rodman urges Barack Obama to call his new BFF Kim Jong Un

2013-03-04 10:09:00

It’s a real-life scenario so bizarre and outlandish it seems like it was dreamed up by the writers of “South Park” or “30 Rock”: Retired NBA player turned C-list reality star Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea, becomes...

'Animal Rescue': James Gandolfini gets involved with the mob

2013-03-11 15:03:00

Is there an actor who’s been taking on more colorful roles lately than James Gandolfini? In the last few months he’s been a blitzed-out hit man (“Killing Them Softly”), self-promoting casino magnate (this weekend’s “The...

Violent video games: Pushing wrong buttons in blame game

2013-02-15 05:32:19

D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns

2013-02-09 05:00:00

Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...

For David O. Russell, an entry in his own 'Silver Linings Playbook'

2013-02-08 18:49:00

The last time David O. Russell went to the White House, to screen “Three Kings” for Bill Clinton in 1999, he brought his 5-year-old son Matthew. Russell didn’t fully know it then, but a world� of struggle loomed for the boy, who grappled...

Letters: Framing the gun debate

2013-01-27 00:00:00

Re "The NRA's loose cannon," Editorial, Jan. 24 National Rifle Assn. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's defense of "absolutism" on gun rights requires a strong rebuttal. The framers knew that change is a fact of life, and they wrote the...

This was the first major English-language TV series shot in South Florida since Miami Vice.

2012-01-16 13:50:48

Xi, however, is not a fan of some of his home country's more well-known films. The cable states: "In American movies, good usually prevails.

2010-12-10 12:17:19

What it is: Buddy-cop movies are thought of as more of a staple of movies, but there have been a fair number of TV shows relying on yin-and-yang police duos as well.

2009-03-06 10:47:57