The biggest surprise was Daniel Kaluuya’s costar, LaKeith Stanfield, says @GlennWhipp, who was considered by many the film’s lead (after all, he’s the “Judas” figure in the “Black Messiah” film).
.@GlennWhipp: "One Night in Miami" not being nominated for Best Picture was a disappointment for a movie that, after its successful Toronto Film Festival premiere, had positioned itself as an early best picture candidate latimes.com/entertainment-…
Aaron Sorkin is a screenwriting brand, says @GlennWhipp, but the academy’s directors branch clearly isn’t ready to give its approval to his stylized, snappy, theatrical vision of filmmaking.
Five decades after the Chicago 7 trial, Aaron Sorkin writes about why it took 14 years and an Abbie Hoffman rethink to finish his Netflix movie latimes.com/entertainment-…
Aaron Sorkin was one of the directors who joined our #TheEnvelope roundtable, alongside #Oscars2021 nominated-directors Chloé Zhao and David Fincher
The season showed James falling for Kirkconnell, unaware that she was photographed at an antebellum South-themed party in 2018 and that she had “liked” racially insensitive social media posts.
Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Monday to nominate a Black woman to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein if the 87-year-old decides to retire before her term is up in 2024.
Feinstein told Times columnist @latimesskelton in December that she has not considered retiring before the end of her term in 2024, at which point she will be 91.
Newsom’s pledge came hours after California’s most prominent elected Black leaders, including Reps. Karen Bass and Barbara Lee, promised to organize Black voters to oppose a recall if it qualifies for the ballot.
Some are skeptical that she will be able to make lasting changes to a bureaucracy with a long history of mistreating Native people. But for others, this is a moment of unparalleled opportunity.
Just days after Rodney King was brutally beaten, Latasha was killed in that shop.
Her death holds significance in L.A. history, particularly because of what took place in the deli before she lost her life: latimes.com/entertainment-…
Love her or loathe her, few here are agnostic about the sometime gardener, cooking columnist and grandmother who has become the leading antagonist against what she sees as creeping extremism in the region locals know as the North State. latimes.com/california/sto…
Doni Chamberlain has embraced the contrarian’s mantle, while other media in the Upper Sacramento River Valley have staked out more neutral terrain.
At times it feels to the late-blooming journalist like she is fighting for the very soul of her hometown. latimes.com/california/sto…
It’s no secret that Chamberlain paddles upstream against the area’s dominant political current. President Trump won Shasta County by more than 30 percentage points in November. latimes.com/california/sto…
Social media is raving about an emotional video showing Tiffany Haddish's reaction to winning a Grammy latimes.com/entertainment-…
Hadish, a nominee for comedy album, spent the day in a TV studio, hosting a segment of her CBS show, “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
Hadish was interrupted by a producer talking into her earpiece: “Tell them you just won a Grammy for best comedy album!” he said. latimes.com/entertainment-…