Upon stepping onto the CBS Studio Center soundstage of “Doubt,” Lauren Blumenfeld says she felt at home. Not because filming the forthcoming legal drama, which premieres in February, required her to return to her native Los Angeles, but rather because its elaborate sets and lighting were comforting reminders of a ... More

This holiday season, members of the kult of Kylie Jenner will descend on the Westfield Topanga mall in hot pursuit of products from the teen mogul’s highly successful beauty line, Kylie Cosmetics. Previously available only online, Kylie Lip Kits, Kyshadow and other coveted items will be for sale while ... More

When it came to casting the leading man in Loving, writer and director Jeff Nichols says simply, “It was Joel’s time.” Loving is Nichols’ fifth movie, the latest in a lineup of complex, genre-toppling films that garnered fervent critical applause, if tepid mainstream momentum. But it’s Nichols’ time, too, and ... More

Fasten your seatbelts folks, Conan O’Brien is playing tour guide. If you’ve followed the career of the late-night funnyman, you’re aware that he’s willing to go there—or anywhere—for a laugh. In his latest travel special, “Conan Without Borders: Berlin,” the 53-year-old host of his eponymous talk show travels to the ... More

For nearly the past decade, the writer and director Jeff Nichols has been playing hard to get. Granted, it’s left him hungrier than the movie studios he’s flirting with, but the 37-year-old filmmaker—whose latest work, Loving, premieres in November—has a notion he can’t shake: that studios should invest in films ... More

In the relay of life, Mo McRae is not afraid to pass the baton. According to the actor, who appears in Fox’s new sports-centric drama, “Pitch,” much of his success is due to support he received as a kid who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, generally known as ... More

There was something endearing about the statement dress that Natalie Portman wore to a press day in New York this October, puffed dramatically at the shoulders and tenting over her pregnant belly. In a suite buried deep in the Peninsula Hotel—with large cardboard Jackie cutouts scattered around the premises, and ... More

This time last year, actor Adrien Brody was preparing to share his (off-screen) art publicly for the first time with an exhibition entitled “Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, and Handguns”, which depicted just that. The buzz surrounding the show seemed to paint Brody very vividly as an “actor-turned-artist”, which is true ... More

First Families may come and go, but one model American lineage—unencumbered by term limits yet still subject to the fickle tastes of the viewing electorate, to be sure—has our enduring allegiance. Forget political dynasties: The Kardashian-Jenners of Calabasas, California are positively Hapsburgian in their conquest of the provinces of television, ... More