“I love that people on TikTok feel so comfortable sharing their feelings, even if it makes some older people go, ‘Why are these kids being so overdramatic?’” Lauren Spencer-Smith (@iamlaurenmusic) says in conversation with @mikaelwood. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“When I see someone else crying online, I feel better about telling someone that I cried today,” says the “Fingers Crossed” singer who’s widely thought to be in the running for the coveted best new artist prize at the #Grammys. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Spencer-Smith on watching the Grammys: “We couldn’t afford TV, so I’d look up every speech and every performance on YouTube. I was obsessed with knowing who won and why.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
“I honestly wasn’t that sad when I got cut,” she says of her time on #AmericanIdol. “When you win a show like that, the contract you end up having to sign always sucks.”
Heather Fontana had started thinking about the real-life #Bridgerton ball months earlier, seeing TikToks from the traveling event. When she saw an ad for the Queen’s Ball locally, she immediately called her best friend Yoanna Arenas, a fellow fan. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“We’re like, ‘Oh, we have to go,’ ... and then we’re like, ‘We’ve also got to get our boyfriends to go,’ ” Fontana said. “We got the tickets as soon as they dropped. I set an alarm and put notifications on my email and everything.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
Netflix says that more than 80% of ticket buyers are female and that more than 90% of the 250 to 350 guests attending each ball dress up. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Stay tuned for interviews with filmmakers and cast! lat.ms/3Gg44b6
#GlassOnion composer Nathan Johnson reveals that the film’s cast would play the murder mystery game “Mafia” while making the #KnivesOut sequel.
Who would make the best real-life detective? Janelle Monáe, he says. lat.ms/3Gg44b6
Jamie Lee Curtis opens up about what it’s like being on the outside of a Benoit Blanc mystery for #GlassOnion after starring in the first #KnivesOut film. lat.ms/3Gg44b6
New: Rep. Karen Bass moved closer to victory in the still-undecided Los Angeles mayor’s race Monday, with an updated tally of results showing the congresswoman leading real estate developer Rick Caruso 52.15% to 47.85% nearly a week after polls closed.
The latest release saw Bass continue to build her lead, with experts saying they struggled to see a path for Caruso to make up the ground ceded to Bass over the last several days of results. latimes.com/california/sto…
Bass now holds a 29,271-vote lead, according to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office.
Monday’s update heavily favored Bass, with the congresswoman taking in 63% of the more than 76,100 newly counted ballots. latimes.com/projects/2022-…
Though designed as a place for shoppers to rest and refuel between purchasing sprees, the mall food court took on a wholly different meaning for people like Jean Chen Ho, who came of age at the cusp of the late ’90s and early 2000s. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
“It was our public square,” writes Jean Chen Ho, “a meetup spot to take a beat and check for any cute guys around or assess our competition in other groups of girls out and about like us.” latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
Somewhere in the last decade, though, the familiar and comforting food courts of Jean Chen Ho’s ’90s youth seem to have disappeared from the cultural imagination, if not entirely from the actual retail landscape. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
Heather Fontana glanced at the curlers as she carefully curled her eyelashes. Her boyfriend, Ramon Perez, looked on. Her dress and gloves were laid out on the bed; a hoop skirt was nearby.
“The Queen’s Ball” is a ticketed party where guests are encouraged to don formal attire — mimicking clothing styles from the Regency era — and be on their best behavior to impress Queen Charlotte. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The event re-creates the swoon-worthy world of the wildly popular Netflix show that chronicles the social life of a wealthy British family in the early 19th century and the romances that consume each of the many eligible siblings. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The testimony of Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the First Partner of California, has been one of the most anticipated moments of Weinstein's Los Angeles trial on rape and sexual assault charges. latimes.com/california/sto…
An emotional Siebel Newsom told a jury in downtown Los Angeles that when she met Weinstein in 2005 at the Toronto Film Festival, she was a 31-year-old actor and filmmaker who saw him as “the top of the industry.” latimes.com/california/sto…
Asked by a prosecutor to identify Weinstein in the courtroom, Siebel Newsom covered her face in her hands, sniffled and wiped away tears before pointing to him at the defense table.