Author: LATimes
“I think if you’re lucky you’re able to experience love several times,” says Kacey Musgraves. (The Tyler Twins / For The Times) NEW YORK — Kacey Musgraves pulls her iPhone from the pocket of her black puffer vest and starts tapping her way to a recent exchange with a friend. “We were literally just talking about this last night,” she says. “Hold on — I want to see how I phrased it.” The 35-year-old country star is an enthusiastic user of Apple’s audio message feature, which she says offers two advantages over regular texting: “less time staring at a god—…
When the third season of the series “Girls5eva” premieres Thursday on Netflix, it will be debuting on the platform along with the other seasons of the show, which previously lived on Peacock, before that streamer canceled the uproarious comedy about a ’90s girl group vying for fame in middle age.The unusual circumstances mean there’s a level of anticipation for creator Meredith Scardino that doesn’t usually accompany a new season.“It feels like a brand new drop,” Scardino said. “It feels like we are dropping the whole series again.”In some ways, another shot seems fitting for “Girls5eva,” a show that’s all about…
The castle is immaculate, its gold etching regal and its towers a bold shade of sky blue. The band at its gates plays no real instruments, but the musicians look dapper and at the ready. Before it all sits an elongated train station, a mix of Victorian grandeur and small-town affability. Look in the distance — there’s a Southern-style mansion, multiple distinct mountains and even another castle, this one nestled at the top of a mound, its spires peering over a wall. All of it is familiar. It’s Disneyland, mostly. The iconic entrance to Disneyland, re-created in the Sheegogs’ Anaheim…
R.C. Hogue grew up with Kanye West’s music. The rapper was “a top-three artist for me and a big part of my upbringing,” said Hogue, a 30-year-old from Los Angeles. Even after West supported Donald Trump, Hogue tried to “separate the art from the artist, because a lot of artists have done messed up things.” But he couldn’t forgive West for saying, in 2022, that he’d go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE” and praised Adolf Hitler.Hogue was looking forward to this weekend’s 10-year anniversary tour of the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in Inglewood — until he saw West’s name,…
AUSTIN, Texas — There was a roaring wave of applause as Dev Patel took the stage after the world premiere of “Monkey Man” at the Paramount Theatre late on Monday night. As the crowd came to its feet for a standing ovation, Patel turned away from the audience, wiping tears from his eyes with his sleeve.Academy Award-nominated for 2016’s “Lion,” the actor had put his on-screen career largely on hold so he could co-write, direct, produce and star in his latest project. “Monkey Man” is an unexpectedly meditative and hallucinatory action tale that is deeply personal to Patel.Asked how he felt…
The original “Scream” queen is back — Neve Campbell announced Tuesday she’d be returning to the franchise for the upcoming seventh film. “Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!!” Campbell posted on Instagram. “It’s always been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney in the Scream movies. My appreciation for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned. I’m very happy and proud to say I’ve been asked, in the most respectful way, to bring Sidney back to the screen and I couldn’t be more thrilled!!!”Campbell previously passed on reprising her role as…
Sharon Stone has identified the Hollywood producer and studio executive she alleges pressured her to have sex with her “Sliver” co-star William “Billy” Baldwin.The “Basic Instinct” star said in Monday’s episode of the “The Louis Theroux Podcast” that the 1993 film’s producer, the late Robert Evans, pressured her to sleep with Baldwin to get a “better” performance from the actor. She initially told the story in her 2021 memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” but named neither the producer nor the co-star in that telling. The 66-year-old actor recalled Evans calling her into his office, which had very low couches…
Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54.Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s death in a phone call with The Times. Laws died Monday at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich. No cause of death was revealed. Before her death, Laws lived with renal disease and suffered a “major stroke and seizure” in 2017, according to a 2021 GoFundMe organized by her sister Karyl Laws Addison. News of Laws’ death spread after fellow rapper Bun B mourned the “Deeper” and “I Don’t…
In just the past few months, Sydney Sweeney has changed. Already a two-time Emmy nominee for her roles on “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” she starred in and produced the worldwide box-office hit “Anyone but You.”Such is Sweeney’s current career trajectory that she is unfazed by the severe, mocking response to the recent disappointment “Madame Web,” saying, “I was just hired as an actress in it, so I was just along for the ride for whatever was going to happen.”Now comes her intense horror film “Immaculate,” premiering Tuesday night at the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival, with Sweeney…
Garrison Brown’s family gathered in Flagstaff, Ariz., over the weekend for the “Sister Wives” star’s funeral.The son of reality TV stars Janelle Brown and Kody Brown died last week in an apparent suicide at his Arizona home. He was reportedly 25 years old.In the time since, family members shared tributes to the late reality star, as well as details about his funeral. “dear robert, i had to dress up for your funeral today and this is everything i wish you could’ve heard before i had to say goodbye,” his cousin Emma Brown wrote in an Instagram tribute. “we love you.…