December 21, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: A ‘Fences’ Celebration, Missing the Guest of Honor

Party Coverage: Scene City By JACOB BERNSTEIN At the Time Warner Center on Monday night, a red carpet area teemed with reporters. Sandy Kenyon of WABC-TV […]
December 10, 2016

Nina Jacobson Has Her Revenge on Hollywood’s Old-Boy Network

LOS ANGELES — Most mornings, Nina Jacobson drives her gray 2012 Tesla from her home in Brentwood to her office in Santa Monica with her two […]
November 26, 2016

Scene Stealers: From Moguls to Mortals

Scene Stealers By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — Some out-of-work Hollywood moguls handle the transition from general to civilian with grace. But they can also be […]
November 19, 2016

Table for Three: Tom Ford, Ben Mankiewicz and a Fashion-Film Vortex

Table for Three By PHILIP GALANES WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Tom Ford was on the job as Ben Mankiewicz took a last look at himself before […]
November 17, 2016

Unbuttoned: When Miuccia Prada Met David O. Russell

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN and WESLEY MORRIS On Tuesday, in downtown Los Angeles, a new David O. Russell film, “Past Forward,” a silent, surreal story of […]
November 17, 2016

Looking Back on the Making of ‘The Godfather’ With Francis Ford Coppola

“Oh, gosh, am I bleeding?” Francis Ford Coppola bleated out while ambling around his Napa Valley home, talking on the phone to a reporter. Though the […]
October 2, 2016

A Fragrance Debut? First, It’s Lights, Camera, Action

Fashion perfumes originated in Belle Époque Paris, and for generations, it was their intoxicating scent that proved to be their most effective selling tool. A cloud […]
September 21, 2016

Jane Fonda: The Reluctant Fashionista

When the model Grace Hartzel opened Tom Ford’s spring 2017 show in a striking shag haircut, the inspiration was unmistakable — at least to those over […]
September 10, 2016

At Home With: At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t always easy to make out his words above the din of five Chihuahuas yipping at his feet. But when Jerry Lewis […]
June 14, 2016

Scene Stealers: What a ‘Ghostbusters’ Online Attack Says About the Digital Age

Scene Stealers By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — The rage was immediate. As soon as the Hollywood trades reported that Sony Pictures was going to reboot […]