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LOS ANGELES — For the third year in a row, Jay Leno is bouncing back after an ugly injury. This time around, the culprit was a steep hill that the 74-year-old comedian misjudged.

Leno was stepping out for dinner a few ...Read more

Like a broomstick hurtling from the sky, here comes the “Wicked” movie (or, rather, the first installment of the “Wicked” movies; the second comes next year) — and oh, I’m still catching my breath, in a very ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Clint Eastwood's legal drama "Juror #2" is set to debut on Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming service Max on Dec. 20, adding to the controversy over the limited theatrical run for what could be the storied ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The cast of "Wicked" is stacked with well-known names: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Peter Dinklage, Bowen Yang.

But one actor you likely don't know is making...Read more

LOS ANGELES — We're a week out from Thanksgiving, still figuring out how much turkey to buy (really? that much?), how a bird that size will possibly fit into our oven and whether we might use our next-door neighbor's ...Read more

On the one hand, “Gladiator II” feels unnecessary.

Of course, pricey sequels — and big-budget films in general — rarely feel necessary. That’s an extremely high bar, and we all know such movies exist almost ...Read more

In the Hulu series “Interior Chinatown,” an average guy named Willis Wu works in his uncle’s Chinatown restaurant. Or so we think. Gradually, it’s revealed that he’s actually a TV character forever trapped in the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — EGOT winner Viola Davis has been selected as the Golden Globes' 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree, a career award that will be handed out at a gala dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 3.

Davis ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fifty-five years ago, preschoolers were captivated by the TV performance of a fuzzy blue monster, two striped shirt-wearing best friends and a big yellow bird.

Today, in the now-crowded field of children's...Read more

“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. And therein lies its superpower.

Its writer-director, Jacques Audiard, chose to tell the story of a brutal Mexican drug cartel lord (...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A secret center of the musical theater universe lies almost 3,000 miles from Broadway in a modestly grand house in L.A.'s Toluca Lake. On a late summer day, the home's most striking feature was the figure ...Read more

When a 1½-pound dog hops on your lap, there is only one possible response — joy.

The dog, a micro-Chihuahua named Pilaf, knows this, and Pilaf’s owner, Demi Moore, knows this as well, though that doesn’t mean she ...Read more

Katherine Rundell wears several hats with style and aplomb. She is a fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; she is an award-winning children’s writer; and she is a biographer, author of the magisterial “Super-...Read more

Books are often sold with “If you’re a fan of X, you’ll love Y” pitches, but I’ve seldom encountered one that was more clearly a “If you’re a fan of” book than “Pony Confidential.”

It’s “Remarkably...Read more

Four new graphic novels showcase a range of approaches and subjects, from deadpan horror comedy to a subversive retelling of an American classic, a fantasy adventure about a magical world next to our own and an odds-and-...Read more

CHICAGO -- Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned, as his mother, Mamie, ...Read more

Jessica Elisheva Emerson’s debut novel, “Olive Days,” is out now from Counterpoint. Set in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood, the story follows Rina Kirsch, a Modern Orthodox Jewish woman struggling with her faith...Read more

Attica Locke’s new novel, “Guide Me Home,” is the final installment in her critically acclaimed Highway 59 trilogy of crime novels featuring Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger.

Here, she takes the Book Pages Q&A....Read more

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name.

Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer while meandering ...Read more