According to ComScore Sunday morning, the 2017 domestic box office for January 1-December 31 rings in at $11.12 billion, which is the third best ever, and the third time that the B.O. has crossed that mark for the third consecutive year in a row. […]
“As his first year in the White House draws to a close, Donald J. Trump remains in almost every respect a singular character,” writes Daniel Downey Jr. in Politico. “He exists well outside the boundaries of what most observers previously judged […]
On July 23, 1967, a police raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar in Detroit precipitated five days of major racial violence. A half century later, director Kathryn Bigelow presented a vivid perspective on this uprising and its place in our social history in the film ‘Detroit.’ […]
“It was the year of Trump and Harvey Weinstein – two men who shaped and were shaped by show business and whose assaults on decency and American values drew condemnation from the unions like never before,” writes David Robb in Deadline […]
“The first year of any Republican presidential administration is sure to bring new attacks on unions and their allies,” writes Shawn Richman in In These Times. “Let’s start with the most over-blown ‘fake news’ labor story of 2017: the asinine notion that Donald Trump has a cunning plan to cleave white working […]
Another year and another group of Hollywood and media industry icons left us in 2017, from TV legends like Mary Tyler Moore to comedy greats like Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles; and Fox News founder Roger Ailes who exited amid multiple […]
Every year, the California Legislature passes hundreds of bills, ranging from technical clarifications to funding proposals that keep the state running. How have they changed your world this time? Here are some of the new laws […]
“I started in this business when I was 3,” writes Rose Marie in The Hollywood Reporter. “From the beginning, I was co-starring or headlining with the major male and female acts of the day, and all of them treated me wonderfully … with one exception […]
The Los Angeles Times has been a bulwark against union organizing for more than a century, since General Harrison Gray Otis acquired part-ownership of the company in 1884. Now, what once seemed unthinkable is about to happen: The newsroom is going to vote next week on whether to join […]
“Last November organized labor received a welcome and, truth be told, largely unexpected piece of good news,” writes David Macaray in Huffington Post. “The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the UFW (United Farm Workers) in its protracted battle with Gerawan Farming […]
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