MY LIFE WITH ALI MACGRAW
The passing of Ali MacGraw's ‘Love Story’ co-star Ryan O’Neal left us all with a nostalgic appreciation of the heartthrobs whose heartbreak ending sent the country out of theaters in tears to...
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MY LIFE AS MARILYN, MY DEAD OLDER SISTER
The LA Monthly interview with actress Catherine Hicks, who portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the 1980 TV feature Marilyn: The Untold Story as well as in the Arthur Miller play After The Fall and...
LARRY MCMURTRY: THE ‘MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST’ WORTHY OF THE NOBEL PRIZE
‘Terms of Endearment’ followed ‘The Last Picture Show’ with great fanfare, but it was his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Lonesome Dove’ that cemented his legacy as one of America’s best...
George Clooney’s Exit Strategy: One Foot Out the Window
It's a scene straight out of a Clooney heist movie, but instead of robbing a casino, he's plotting an escape from the land of the free and the home of the increasingly conservative ahead of a second...
If Marilyn Had Been the Ultimate Ferrari…
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood has had an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol as if it were...
DIOGENES IN LA
For the last three years I have been a Thoreau-like hermit living amongst the Mendocino redwoods in a shack, a one-eyed cat my only companion. There, something slowly shifted in me as I slouched...
SCENES FROM WINNING A PRESS CLUB AWARD
ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, FilmTony Castro, LAMonthly.org, “If Marilyn Had Been a Car, She Would Have Been a Ferrari” https://bit.ly/49ZO7BqJudges’ comment: What an entertaining story...
BOYLE HEIGHTS ‘STUDIOS’… YEAH, BELIEVE IT
East End Studios Lands $130 Million in Loans to Make It Happen Set in the heart of the Los Angeles Eastside, East End Studios - Mission Campus is just part of a $1 billion, three-segment project the...
OSCAR TIME FOR LUPITA NYONG’O
Can ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Break Box Office and Awards Expectations? I’ll Bet it Will Review by Mike Szymanski OK, let the Oscar campaign begin right now for Lupita Nyong’o for her work in...
LAMONTHLY WINS SoCal JOURNALISM AWARD
Tony Castro Won for Entertainment Feature His paean to the late author Tom Wolfe's Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby ode to the California car culture chronicled the Ferrari...
‘Cabrini’ Is a Masterpiece
A Miraculously Impressive Film About the First American SaintIt is also a timely movie for the world, in a period of racial prejudice, immigration fears and oppressive politics, no story rings truer...
Why Is Ridley Scott’s Film ‘Napoleon’ So Bad?
Perhaps we are just tired of dictators, and we don’t want to sit through 2 hours and 38 minutes (or a day) to deal with another dictator. We tire of little men who have squeaky voices and want to...
A Murder in Hollywood: Obsessed Film Extra Guns Down Producer’s Son in Cold Blood
Movie stand-in Jameelah Elena Michl fell so madly in love with her film's beautiful director that she began stalking her — even brandishing a Glock — and when the director didn't return her...
IF MARILYN HAD BEEN A CAR, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN A FERRARI
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn...
Elvis: An Abusive Husband or Just Uncontrollably Temperamental?
WHY DID PRISCILLA PRESLEY leave Elvis? Did the 14-year-old girl he fell in love with when he was 24 realize as she grew into a woman that they had little in common except for their daughter Lisa...
WGA, Studios Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The Writers Guild and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has...
America Ferrera’s Stunning ‘Barbie’ Monologue
TOO EARLY FOR OSCAR nomination talk? Maybe not if you have seen “Barbie” and came away surprisingly stunned by actress America Ferrera’s incredible monologue about being a...