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Paramount Global Co-Chief Executive Brian Robbins stepped down Wednesday, a day before David Ellisonβs Skydance Media absorbs the entertainment company. The move was expected. Skydance unveiled it senior management team earlier this week, signaling its plans to shake up the leadership of Robbinsβ turf β the famed Paramount Pictures on Melrose Avenue. Robbins has led…
Dean Cain played a superhero on TV 30 years ago. Now he wants to help the government in its unconstitutional sweeps of Home Depot parking lots, schools and bus benches for people who appear to be immigrants. Cain played Superman in the 1990s TV series βLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.β On Tuesday,…
Tuesday night, Gustavo Dudamel was back at the Hollywood Bowl. This summer is the 20th anniversary of his U.S. debut β at 24 years old β conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and becoming irrepressibly besotted with the amphitheater. He walked on stage, now the proud paterfamilias with greying hair and a broad welcoming smile on…
Only one player in the last 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgersβ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit successfully at the big-league level. Babe Ruth twice won more than 20 games and led the American League in ERA and starts before the Red Sox, then the…
Donald Trump has announced 100% tariffs on computer chips and semiconductors made outside the US. The move threatens to increase the cost of electronics made outside the US, which covers everything from TVs and video game consoles to kitchen appliances and cars. The announcement came as Apple chief executive Tim Cook said his company would…
Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at the University of Southern California as well as a prominent dance series at the Music Center, among many other initiatives, has died. She was 95. Kaufmanβs death was confirmed by a representative for the Music Center,…
Surfer dudes. Football dudes. Thatβs the best way to describe identical twins Liam and Luke Meeker, football players at Mira Costa High. Liam is the quarterback and Luke the receiver. Theyβve been teaming up their whole life. βTwin telepathy,β they joke. Their father, George, who was a member of Edisonβs surf team during his high…
Jane Pitt, a schoolteacher, philanthropist and the mother of film star Brad Pitt, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. The Pitt family shared her obituary with KY3, an NBC-affiliated station in Springfield, Mo., where Jane and her husband, Bill, raised their three children β Brad, Doug Pitt and Julie Neal. The cause of…
Already the home of Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles is now also the home of South Koreaβs Shohei Ohtani. Like Ohtani, Son Heung-min has been the most popular athlete in his home country by a wide margin for close to a decade. Like Ohtani, Son has a pleasant disposition that has endeared him to people from…
The father of a fan who tragically fell to their death on Saturday at an Oasis concert has spoken out. Clive Claydon, 75, told the Guardian that Lee Claydon, was a βhardworking family manβ who βloved to be with his family.β He added that the 45-year-old had attended the show with his brother and his…
