Tag: Hollywood

Whoopi’s Repellent Opinions Mirror the Decline of Hollywood

Commentary Hollywood was once one of America’s shining lights.  Movies such as “Casablanca,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” the Westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks, the comedies of Buster Keaton, Preston Sturges and the Marx Brothers, all the way to “Star Wars” and “American Graffiti”—I could go on…


Served: Harvey Weinstein

Justice is SERVED. Disgraced media mogul, Harvey Weinstein, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual criminal acts. Witness the rise and fall of one of Hollywood’s most powerful men. This title is only available in the US. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on…


China Demands Even More Self-Censorship—Will Hollywood Comply?

Commentary LeBron James is a basketball star. He also happens to be a movie star. Last year, he played the lead role in “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” an unmitigated flop that was, as authors at The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “tailored to appeal above all else to the mighty Chinese market.” After all, they noted, James…


‘Power of the Dog,’ ‘West Side Story’ Take Top Golden Globes at Off-Screen Ceremony

LOS ANGELES—Dark Western “The Power of the Dog” and a remake of “West Side Story” won the biggest awards on Sunday at a diminished Golden Globes ceremony held privately without the usual glitzy lineup of Hollywood’s top television and movie stars. Actors, directors and film studios largely ignored the Globes this year after criticism in 2021…


Rex Murphy: Hollywood Cause-Merchants Should Keep Their Noses Out of World Issues

Commentary Celebrities, from the C-list to the A-list, have been infesting politics for half a century now. Various halfwits and noodleheads have convinced themselves that because they lucked out in the entertainment lottery, landed a slot on some spin-off soap opera, or because their vulgar howlings won them a Grammy or its so-low-rent equivalent, a…


Rex Murphy: Hollywood Cause-Merchants Should Keep Their Noses Out of Issues They Know Little About

Commentary Celebrities, from the C-list to the A-list, have been infesting politics for half a century now. Various halfwits and noodleheads have convinced themselves that because they lucked out in the entertainment lottery, landed a slot on some spin-off soap opera, or because their vulgar howlings won them a Grammy or its so-low-rent equivalent, a…


Authorities Search Marilyn Manson’s West Hollywood Home

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives served a search warrant at Marilyn Manson’s West Hollywood apartment Nov. 29 in an investigation related to ongoing sexual assault and sexual battery allegations against the rock singer. Sheriff’s investigators entered the residence early Monday morning and seized media storage units including hard drives, though Manson, whose…


Hollywood Christmas Parade Returns After 2020 COVID Cancellation

HOLLYWOOD—After a hiatus in 2020 because of the pandemic, the Hollywood Christmas Parade returned Nov. 28, moving through the streets of Tinseltown with its 89th edition to mark the unofficial start to the holiday season—though one still being celebrated in the shadow of COVID-19. Sheryl Underwood, a host on the CBS daytime show “The Talk,”…


LA Police Creating ‘Follow-Home Robbery Task Force’ After Killing in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD—Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore announced Nov. 23 that his department will create a task force to investigate “follow-home robberies.” The announcement comes after a man was shot and killed outside the Bossa Nova Restaurant, in the 7100 block of Sunset Boulevard, at 2:10 a.m. in what Moore said is believed to be tied…


Man Shot to Death in Hollywood in So-Called ‘Follow-Home Robbery’

HOLLYWOOD—A 23-year-old man was shot and killed Nov. 23 in Hollywood in what Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said was another in a series of “follow-home robberies.” Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Hollywood Station responded at 2:10 a.m. to 7181 Sunset Blvd. outside the Bossa Nova Restaurant on multiple calls of…