Television

Flying Ninjago thrill ride to debut in 2012 at Legoland Germany

2012-01-04 06:30:00

The interactive Flying Ninjago thrill ride debuting in 2012 at Legoland Germany will send riders spinning through air on the wings of a dragon. Set to debut on March 30, the new ride is expected to be one of the first Sky Fly towers built by German-based...

Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools

2012-01-08 00:00:00

In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...

Fashion Diary: Fast forward to 2012

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Stealth wealth. Fashion gaming. Elsa Schiaparelli. Raf Simons. What else? Here's a list of stylish people, trends and ideas to pay attention to in 2012. Surrealism. Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibition...

Newton: Who's on 1st (and Spring)?

2012-01-16 00:00:00

I can't say for sure whether Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will run for mayor in 2013. I don't even know with certainty whether he's already made up his mind and is just stringing the rest of us along. What I can tell you without any...

John Rich dies at 86; director of landmark sitcoms

2012-01-30 00:00:00

As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing "The Dick Van Dyke Show"in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970. On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to...

Tribune agrees to pay $675,000 to ex-chief Randy Michaels

2011-11-23 00:00:00

Tribune Co. agreed to pay former chief executive Randy Michaels $675,000 in a settlement stemming from his abrupt resignation from the company Oct. 22, 2010. The company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, KTLA-TV Channel 5, the Chicago Tribune and...

"Touch" gets to Kiefer Sutherland

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Kiefer Sutherland runs through a packed Grand Central Station, dodging bystanders and scanning the crowd for suspicious activity. The minutes fly by — seen in frequent close-ups of ticking clocks — drawing closer to a potentially explosive...

The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?

2012-01-09 00:00:00

If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort? Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...

Mary Tyler Moore's taboo-breaking shows seen in new light

2012-01-29 00:00:00

In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just because she recently made her first TV appearance in many moons on pal Betty White's show "Hot in Cleveland" or...

Ben Gazzara dies at 81; veteran actor of stage and screen

2012-02-04 00:00:00

A New York native of Sicilian heritage, Ben Gazzara was a strongly masculine, subtly menacing screen presence with a gravelly voice that one writer described as "saloon-cured" and another said could strip paint at 50 paces. The veteran actor, who died...

Ex-model Nicole Murphy, football's Michael Strahan list Brentwood home at $6.95 million

2012-01-09 14:38:00

Former model Nicole Murphy and football analyst Michael Strahan have listed their house in a gated community in Brentwood at $6.95 million. Designed for entertaining, the contemporary Mediterranean features two dens, a wet bar, a theater room, a wine...

Daum: Memed, and proud of it

2012-02-01 16:32:00

Say what you will about the latest Internet video sensation — in which someone lampoons one group of humans or another based on certain conversational proclivities — but if nothing else, we can credit it with bringing mainstream awareness to...

also taking home the statue for male actor in a drama series this year -- Buscemi, who has long been lauded for his skill as a character actor, doesn't feel like a leading man. "I still feel like a character actor," the actor said backstage, surrounded by the show's cast.

2012-01-29 19:43:43

for the TV movie "The Gin Game," based on the play about two elderly members of a senior citizens home who strike up an acquaintance.

2012-01-26 14:56:31

Show," in 1970. Moore played Mary Richards, a single TV news producer in Minneapolis, in this popular and critically acclaimed sitcom that ran for seven seasons.

2012-01-26 14:44:19