Larry Kramer was many things -- a firebrand activist, a political gadfly, the loudest voice in any room. He was a founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and Act Up, two organizations that changed the course of the AIDS epidemic in America.

But what he wanted to be seen as first and foremost was a writer -- the way he understood himself. Writer-...Read more

Instagram will let creators profit directly from their videos, helping popular users generate more revenue during the COVID-19 crisis, while moving into more direct competition with YouTube.

Starting next week, Instagram will show ads before clips that run on its IGTV service for longer-form videos. The company plans to share 55% of the revenue...Read more

This week brings us HBO Max, which is HBO, like, to the max. Born of the age of corporate consolidation and intellectual property wars, it is designed, with its deep well of content, as a rival to Disney+ and its Marvel and "Star Wars" franchises, setting against them an agglomeration of series and movies from Warner Bros., DC, New Line, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A Greek tragedy: The Greek Theatre in Griffith Park has called off its entire 2020 season because of the coronavirus crisis, striking yet another blow to Los Angeles' outdoor summer concert programming.

On Tuesday, the beloved venue announced that all of its forthcoming events have been postponed, rescheduled for 2021 or canceled...Read more

I'd only been watching HBO Max for a few minutes when one thing became abundantly clear: This didn't look like the old HBO.

It was the premiere of "Craftopia," one of the first original programs to appear on AT&T Inc.'s new streaming platform. The show's host was a peppy YouTube star who has been called the "millennial Martha Stewart." ...Read more

They just don't make 'em like "The Vast of Night" anymore. This uber-cool throwback '50s sci-fi movie is the directorial debut of Oklahoma-based filmmaker Andrew Patterson. But somehow, this retro, nostalgic film, written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, and presented as a hypothetical episode of a "Twilight Zone"-style TV series called "...Read more

"Mrs. America," a limited series about the fight over the Equal Rights Amendment, has won acclaim for fantastic performances from some of the finest actresses in the business -- including Cate Blanchett, Margo Martindale, Rose Byrne, Tracey Ullman and Uzo Aduba.

But no one should overlook the show's most valuable supporting players: the wigs.

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When Iran released its American hostages in 1981, 15-year-old Juju Chang hopped on her bike to deliver the breaking news like a town crier while pedaling through her neighborhood.

Today, she has a slightly bigger audience.

As co-anchor of ABC's "Nightline," she's reaching as many as 4 million viewers, more than double the number who tuned in a...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The last time director-producer Frank Marshall remembers one of his movie projects being shut down for this long was in 1983, when Harrison Ford suffered a spinal disc herniation while filming "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Ford was knocked out of commission for nearly six weeks while he recovered from the painful, stunt-...Read more

The other day while hanging around the house for a shipment of Napa Valley sauvignon blanc to arrive, I found myself starring in a California version of "Waiting for Godot."

A text message assured me that the delivery would happen on Friday. Friday came and went. No wine. Saturday the same thing, but another text assured me that my order would ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of May 18:

1. The Way Back (2020) -- Warner

2. The Call of The Wild -- Fox

3. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn -- Warner

4. Bloodshot -- Sony

5. Capone -- Redbox Entertainment

6. Blumhouse's Fantasy Island -- Sony

7. Sonic the Hedgehog -- Paramount

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One of the few businesses thriving these days is streaming television. According to JustWatch.com, a service that charts consumer viewing, interest in Netflix has shot up more than 300% during the pandemic, with Disney+, Amazon Prime and Hulu also seeing triple-digit growth.

But newcomers aren't necessarily welcome. Quibi, which specializes in ...Read more

Juliette Lewis first turned heads when she garnered Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, at age 18, for her role as a naive teen in Martin Scorsese's 1991 film "Cape Fear." Since then, the 46-year-old actress has portrayed a multitude of memorable characters in film and TV, from the stone-cold psychopath of Oliver Stone's 1994 film "Natural Born ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in Los Angeles County on Tuesday against the producers and studios behind the CBS show "Criminal Minds," one of the longest running network dramas.

The lawsuit claims that over 14 years, Gregory St. Johns, director of photography for the ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- It was the game show with one of the biggest payoffs of all time. When "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" first dominated British television it was as popular as "Roots" had been in the United States years earlier. It reached as many as 19 million people in the tiny U.K.

Viewers were glued to their cathode rays as a series of ...Read more