LOS ANGELES -- The mother of the actress murdered by Phil Spector settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer Friday, nine years to the day after the fatal shooting in the foyer of his mansion in the Alhambra suburb of Los...

LOS ANGELES -- When Paul Telegdy moved to Los Angeles, he was struck by the contrast between U.S. celebrities and those from his native Britain.

"People here took themselves extremely seriously once they were in the public eye," Telegdy, NBC ...

From the Los Angeles Times' Ministry of Gossip blog:

'MYSTERIOUS ISLAND': KRISTIN DAVIS WANTS TO PET JOSH HUTCHERSON

The characters in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" encounter all manner of unusual animals on the film's Jules Verne-...

LOS ANGELES -- Kids' television, which has the license to be fanciful and strange in ways that grown-up TV does not, is a place where anything can happen. But it often seems a place where the same few things happen again and again.

Such it is ...

People, please, can we end this silly charade? You're not fooling me.

The minute I tell one of you I write about television for the newspaper, the lying starts.

"I only watch the news" translates as "I'm a complete basket case this time of year ...

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG): Dwayne Johnson takes over for Brendan Fraser in the second installment of the Jules Verne-flavored family adventures, this one set on a mythical island crawling with monsters.

SAFE HOUSE (R): A CIA agent (...