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  • Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River

    LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...

  • Eva Longoria gets her Masters degree

    Actress Eva Longoria gladly flaunted a graduation gown after picking her Master's degree from the California State University. The 39-year-old star qualified in Chicano studies from the university. The "Desperate Housewives" star took to Twitter to share her joy, and wrote: "Big day today! Very excited to graduate for my Master's degree in Chicano Studies! You're never too old or too busy to ...

  • Amanda Seyfried was happy with big bosom

    Actress Amanda Seyfried feels she looked better with bigger breasts, but she says she had to lose a bit of overall weight for her Hollywood journey. "I looked way better when I was 15. I had beautiful huge breasts and then I came to Hollywood and I was like, 'I got to lose weight. I got to look thin and fit.' And I lost them a little bit," femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 27-year-old. Seyfried ...

  • Jennifer Aniston to play stripteaser in Were The Millers

    Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is ready to perform a striptease act in her forthcoming film "We're The Millers". The 44-year-old plays a drug smuggling lap dancer in the comedy film, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, reports thesun.co.uk The star cast also includes Emma Roberts, Ed Helms and Jason Sudeikis. The film will hit screens in Britain Aug ...

  • Eisenberg imbibes stage confidence from mother

    Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg, who plays a magician in forthcoming film "Now You See My", says he imbibed the confidence to perform from his talented mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...


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Movie Review

Keeping the Faith

If there's one subject that Hollywood is generally bad at tackling, it is religion. The basic law of the Hollywood production machine is to create a product that appeals to the largest common base of people. It's okay to offend certain fringe groups because they probably don't go see movies very often anyway. But one must appeal to the masses, therefore it is difficult to commit to any one religi ... ...

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  • I learnt magic tricks from mother Jesse Eisenberg

    Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg says he got confidence to perform the tricks of an illusionist in his forthcoming film "Now You See Me" by watching his mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...

  • Boy Scouts End Ban on Gay Members Hollywood Reacts

    "A great step forward," George Takei tweets, while Jason Biggs criticizes the organization for keeping the ban on openly gay adults serving as ...

  • Ex-Police Officer Gets 8 Months In Jail After Stealing $60K From Youth Scholarship Fund

    FULLERTON (CBSLA.com) -- A former Southern California police officer has been sentenced to 240 days in jail for stealing more than $60,000 from a law enforcement football organization that raised money for youth scholarships. Forty-five-year-old Kirk Robert Lotzgesell faced up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in December to a felony count of grand theft. City News Service reports ...

  • Torrance rededicates renovated landmark railroad bridge

    The Torrance historical railroad bridge was rededicated and renamed the Pacific Electric Railway El Prado Bridge in a ceremony Thursday. The area around the bridge was cleaned, anti-graffitti coating was placed on the concrete and the fence at the top was replaced. (Steve McCrank / Staff ...

  • 41st annual Fiesta Hermosa spotlights local artists nonprofit groups

    < 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Late Friday night, a few dozen workers will take over Hermosa Beach's lively bar and restaurant plaza, close streets, install stages and equipment, mark off 300 spaces for vendors, and place signs and electrical gear needed to transform the area into festival grounds for Southern California's largest arts and crafts fair this holiday weekend. ...

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