'The novel endures thanks to its keen understanding that many people in this town see movies as a metaphor, a proxy for other forms of currency: the tax break, the blind item, the call sheet, the high horse.' Matt Brennan Los Angeles Times latimes.com/entertainment-…
In print today, Los Angeles Times’ special issue on the best Hollywood books of all time — including my essay on Joan Didion’s “Play It As It Lays” and why your nostalgia is misplaced: latimes.com/entertainment-…
The honeymoon is over: 'The Golden Bachelor' and his bride call it quits after 3 months. Greg Braxton on the shocking epilogue to a TV love story, for Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/entertainment-…
Could not be more grateful to Carolyn Cole, who has photographed wars and disasters herself, for taking the time to answer some questions about “Civil War’s” depiction of photojournalism. With Greg Braxton, for Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/entertainment-…
Just *reading* about L.A. in the early '90s is enough to make you tense. mary mcnamara writes about how that era of apocalyptic L.A. shaped the O.J. Simpson case and the circus around it, for Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/entertainment-…
max3000 on bsky Matt Brennan Why not talk to them rather than file a report? More likely they’ll learn something
Matt Brennan Are you going to … throw him over your shoulder? Are you the muscle man Matt?
Barak Ravid Matt Brennan Axios Not unless you want WWIII to kickoff by the end of the week.
I think we’re avoiding a much larger calamity
Barak Ravid