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Is Borrego Springs the next Joshua Tree? Probably not. The next Palm Springs? Nope. But this lonely San Diego County desert town, about three hours southeast of L.A. City Hall …

Television personality and DJ Stephen “Twitch” Boss is being laid to rest in Los Angeles, weeks after he died at age 40. The Times has confirmed that Boss’ family was …

Leslie Jordan’s character on the Fox show “Call Me Kat” will “live forever” as the cast continues to mourn the loss of the actor who died in October at age …

Chris Ledesma, the former longtime music editor for the hit animated TV series “The Simpsons,” has died. He was 64. Fox confirmed Ledesma’s death to The Times on Tuesday, just …

PARIS —  Movie stars and other film industry workers convicted of or facing possible prison time for sexual or sexist violence are being banned from France’s top movie award ceremony “out …

Jeremy Renner “was helping someone stranded in the snow” on New Year’s Day when he was run over by his own snowplow in Nevada, according to Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve. …

James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” sends the visual effects team back to the technological drawing board to achieve, yet again, breakthroughs never before seen on-screen — underwater performance …

“Return to Seoul” filmmaker Davy Chou doesn’t like to give up on his instincts. Casting had proved difficult for the role of Freddie, a young Frenchwoman of Korean origin, thrown …

Gangsta Boo, rap pioneer and former member of Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, has died. She was 43. Gangsta Boo’s representative confirmed news of her death to Variety. No …

We’re a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies …