A week before the Academy Awards, the PGA Tour’s Hollywood stop was set to give us its own Best Picture and Best Actor seven days early. You could call Riviera’s flick: “From Pebble to Palisades: It’s Philly Mick’s World” or “The Tiger Slayer And More: P

Four nights too late for Valentine's Day, "Second Honeymoon" (8 tonight on Hallmark) offers a grown-up variation on "The Parent Trap." After 20 years of marriage, Maggie (Roma Downey, "Touched by an Angel") and George (Tim Matheson, "The West Wing") deci

In “ Life’s Too Short ,” a mostly tepid, half-hour comedy series premiering Sunday night on HBO, the once-brilliant Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant return to the same vat of mean-spiritedness that served them so well on “ The Office ” and “ Extras .”

For more on Hollywood's namesake food and drink, including the Larry David, the Mary Pickford (shown here), and the Shirley Temple, see the latest Gourmet Live. about this blog food blogs we like You've got great taste! Thank you for signing up to receiv

In Britain, Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge is as celebrated as John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty or Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean. And in America, Coogan’s cult status has been spreading, thanks to The Trip, the recent movie drawn from one of his wildly popular BBC

We're spoilt for choice when it comes to cringe, says Diana Wichtel, but the master is, as ever, Larry David. Television. What is it good for? The medium the first BBC director-general, Lord Reith, once declared “a potential social menace of the first ma

Weep not, nor send mournful sandwiches for Chuck’s Zachary Levi. It's barely been a month since his NBC show ended, and already he has another job on another network: starring in the very appropriately named Let It Go at Fox. The half-hour comedy hails f

No other club in Los Angeles has quite the same vibe as Largo. Music events and comedy revues alternate on the booking schedule, but on most nights the two combine for a uniquely daft yet tuneful blur of entertainment. Such stellar personalities as Jon B

At least that’s what I thought when I first heard him on Marc Maron’s podcast, when I finally figured out who it was. You know him too, Stoller’s the schnook with the whiny voice, the kind of guy who wants to be your friend who you avoid. But the intro t

There's an article in The New York Times that captures and propels an idea that started floating around the Internet, at about the same time Facebook started floating around the investment pages: Facebook owes everyone some cash. The tortured logic behin

By Nancy deWolf Smith Even the best comedians can't explain where jokes come from, and it's probably better that way. So David Steinberg's new interview series with 19 famous comics only takes us partway behind the curtain. The mystery, the tiny, glitter

Do any of you guys still watch House? I assume everyone watched House at SOME point, because I did, and everybody does the same things* as me, right? RIGHT? Well if any of you still watch it, first of all, did House ever fix his hurty leg? Second of all,

Young comedy writers often ask Larry David for advice on how to make it in Hollywood. Here's what he tells them — don't have a family, don't get married, don't have any responsibilities. When people rely on you — at least financially — your negotiating s

To anyone who has ever seen an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm - which finished its eighth season on TV2 late last night - it's clear that there are many similarities to Seinfeld, the show Larry David worked on before turning his attention to Curb. But o

Lucy Lawless has made it no secret she loves comedies. The "Spartacus: Vengeance" star, who frequently appears on "The Soup" and guest starred on Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," revealed to The Huffington Post that she was very close to sparking fe

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IF Amanda Seyfried knew where James Franco was Friday night, she wasn’t telling. Franco was a no-show at the “Lovelace” wrap party at the Writer’s Room in L.A. , and a source at the DeLeon Tequila-hosted bash tells us guests kept asking the actress his wh

No other club in Los Angeles has quite the same vibe as Largo. Music events and comedy revues alternate on the booking schedule, but on most nights the two combine for a uniquely daft yet tuneful blur of entertainment. Such stellar personalities as Jon B

Just ‘Smile’ Friends often tell Sidney she resembles British singer Lily Allen. Culture vulture Sidney says she’s usually attracted to arty types — “He doesn’t necessarily have to be an artist, but if he thinks opera is slow and boring, we’ve got problem