
LOS ANGELES — Adult film performers in California could soon be required to wear condoms and goggles to prevent exposure to bodily fluids, and producers would have to pay for medical visits and Hepatitis B treatments, under a new set of safety procedures recently released by the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Cal/OSHA).
by Daniel Nussbaum26 May 2015, 1:51 PM PST0

French-born actor Gerard Depardieu seemingly has no plans to return to live in his former home country.
by Daniel Nussbaum26 May 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

Clothing retailer PacSun removed a controversial upside-down American flag T-shirt from its stores after receiving massive consumer backlash on Memorial Day.
by Daniel Nussbaum26 May 2015, 10:46 AM PST0

Clothing retailer PacSun is facing massive customer backlash on Memorial Day for selling a T-shirt featuring an upside-down black-and-white flag. Angry customers have flooded the company’s social media pages to decry the “disrespectful” A$AP Worldwide T-Shirt, which was designed in
by Daniel Nussbaum25 May 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

Snoop Dogg is a changed man.
by Daniel Nussbaum25 May 2015, 11:44 AM PST0

Disney’s pricey sci-fi/climate-change-warning film Tomorrowland is bombing at the Memorial Day weekend box office. According to Deadline, the film is projected to earn roughly $32 million over the three-day frame, and just under $40 million once Monday’s Memorial Day box office
by Daniel Nussbaum24 May 2015, 2:19 PM PST0

Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for an amnesty program for poor California residents who cannot afford to pay debts accrued through traffic violations after a blistering report from a nonprofit law firm concluded that the state is profiting off of minorities and low-income residents.
by Daniel Nussbaum24 May 2015, 12:30 PM PST0

The upcoming star-studded Sony Pictures film Aloha is under fire from an advocacy group that claims the film’s producers “used mostly white” actors in the Hawaiian-set production and failed to adequately depict the diversity of the island’s residents.
by Daniel Nussbaum24 May 2015, 12:22 PM PST0

Kim Jong-chol, brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has gone missing after attending a pair of Eric Clapton concerts in London last week.
by Daniel Nussbaum24 May 2015, 10:58 AM PST0

Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, whose life was the subject of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, and his wife Alicia were reportedly killed in a car crash in New Jersey on Saturday. Nash was 86; Alicia Nash was 82.
by Daniel Nussbaum24 May 2015, 9:11 AM PST0

Robert De Niro delivered the commencement speech to graduates of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts on Friday, opening up his remarks with a blunt warning: “You’re f***ed.”
by Daniel Nussbaum22 May 2015, 2:52 PM PST0

A Moscow psychiatric hospital has been fined for showing child patients the 1991 horror-thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 May 2015, 1:13 PM PST0

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is circulating an email petition urging people to support its call for a government investigation of the “biased” hiring practices of major Hollywood film studios.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 May 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

Rapper Flavor Flav was arrested on six separate charges after being pulled over for speeding early Thursday morning in Las Vegas.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 May 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, 37, sounded off on ageism in Hollywood in a recent interview with The Wrap, claiming producers said she was “too old” to play the love interest of a 55-year old male actor in an upcoming film.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 May 2015, 2:44 PM PST0

The Grand Palais theater on the French Riviera was the scene of a brawl Wednesday night as hundreds of eager moviegoers jockeyed to get into the Cannes premiere of Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noe’s latest project, the 3D arthouse porn film Love.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 May 2015, 1:08 PM PST0

Select farmers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta have offered to give up one quarter of their allotted water supply this year to help California combat its devastating four-year-long drought. The farmers, who hold senior water rights to
by Daniel Nussbaum21 May 2015, 10:38 AM PST0

California’s four-year-long drought is forcing cities across the state to make tough choices about water conservation. Now, one city will be forced to make its toughest choice yet: cleaner air, or more drinkable water?
by Daniel Nussbaum21 May 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Australian police have issued a “be on the lookout (BOLO)” alert for rock band Nickelback after claiming the group has perpetrated “crimes against music.”
by Daniel Nussbaum20 May 2015, 12:26 PM PST0

Have you ever been driving along, listening to the latest hit song on a Top 20 radio station, and thought, “Man, these lyrics are really dumb?”
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 7:01 PM PST0

Snoop Dogg is ready for Hillary.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 4:18 PM PST0

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transportation system is nearly ready for its first test. The high-speed tube transportation system will soon have its first test track in California, according to Green Car Reports.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 2:20 PM PST0

Netflix (NFLX) stock briefly hit an all-time high of $628.50 per share on Tuesday after an analyst at equity research firm Pivotal Research Group increased the stock’s end-of-year target price to $850, a boost of 38% over the stock’s Monday closing price of $650.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

Rapper Layzie Bone sprung into action to save a Wyoming man’s life shortly before he was scheduled to go onstage to perform a concert.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 12:54 PM PST0

M.I.A. says she cannot release her latest music video “because it’s shot in Africa.”
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 11:38 AM PST0