"Nobody wants to claim Hollywood."

Perched in the undulating embrace of the Santa Monica Mountains, the iconic Hollywood sign stands as an emblem of ambition and achievement, its stark white letters a clarion call to storytellers and dreamers for over a century. This towering beacon not ...

Star power, or the ability of an actor to consistently draw audiences to a film or TV show, has waned and wobbled in the 21st century if not outright collapsed. From Florence Lawrence and Charlie Chaplin all the way through Julia Roberts and Denzel ...

One major virtue of the film historian Foster Hirsch’s teeming new book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” is to bring the output of this extraordinary decade back into the forefront of attention. (Concurrent with its publication, there is a ...

Hollywood once represented the pinnacle of success in entertainment by setting the standards for storytelling, production quality and star power, but that may be changing. The creator economy is rewriting the rules as creators build independent pathways to ...

Since Tuesday morning, multiple fires have ravaged Los Angeles—resulting in at least five deaths, displacing more than 100,000 LA residents, and destroying more than 1,000 homes as well as entire neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades. On Wednesday night ...

The Hollywood sign is LA's monument to the entertainment industry. NPR's A Martinez talks to Alison Martino, a writer and amateur historian, about the signs origins and symbolism. The Hollywood sign towers over Los Angeles. It's a location marker and a ...

Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has successfully defended claims she defamed a young actress who played the lead role in her directorial debut.