CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 15, 2008 | CARLA HALL
Police arrested two suspects Friday in the shooting death of off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee Mylus Mondy. Mondy had walked up to an ATM in the 6600 block of La Cienega Westway at 11:30 p.m. Sunday when he was approached by a man who demanded money and shot him as he tried to run away. The assailant's face, captured on the ATM's surveillance camera, was broadcast repeatedly on local television news. McKenzie Bryant, 23, has been booked on suspicion of murder, said Jason Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
NEWS
May 30, 2007 | Lisa Rosen, Special to The Times
NBC'S comedy "My Name Is Earl" takes a deceptively simple premise and plays it for deceptively simple humor. Earl is a boldly mustachioed guy who took a few hundred wrong turns in his life, and has made a list to right those wrongs. He's accompanied on his quest by a cast of working-class antiheroes, including a man-child brother (Ethan Suplee) and a venomous beauty of an ex-wife (Jaime Pressly). Earl is played by Jason Lee, who is also one of the show's executive producers. Taking a break from filming on "Alvin and the Chipmunks," Lee -- in a rare clean-shaven moment -- discussed Earl's fans, his own plans and trying to make television a cinematic experience.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 4, 2005 | Brian Triplett, Times Staff Writer
AFTER dropping out of high school in his senior year, Jason Lee decided to become a professional skateboarder, so he did. Then, a decade ago, after snagging a role in the Kevin Smith film "Mallrats," he decided to become a legit, full-time actor. He did that too, with a 10-year film career that has taken him to a level somewhere between the guy who steals the show and the star in movies like "Almost Famous" and "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
ENTERTAINMENT
November 2, 2003 | Mark Ehrman, Special to The Times
L.A. has always been a hostile market for magazines, but somehow their parties always seem to wrangle a healthy Hollywood guest list -- and the launch at Skybar for the L.A.-based glossy Ingenue proved no exception. The pub features actors-on-the-verge whose upcoming roles are to be their breakouts. "A sampling of the new Hollywood generation," is how editor and publisher Dane Lee describes it, and that pretty much characterized who showed up.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 21, 2000 | ROBIN RAUZI, * The actor plays the lead singer of the band Stillwater in the film "Almost Famous" and has also appeared in "Dogma," "Chasing Amy" and "Enemy of the State."
Magical Music Hours: I don't go out much--like to bars with friends. My wife, Carmen [Llywellyn Lee] might go out on a Friday night with her friends. I'll be at home in my recording studio working on music. If I have a choice between a crowded bar and working on music, the choice is obvious for me. Saturday Driver: Saturday during the day, we always take drives. We like to go to this place called Dagwood's on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica to get pizza and subs and stuff.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 1, 1998 | Steve Hochman
Having co-starred in director Kevin Smith's "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy," Jason Lee is part of the rising class of young, indie-oriented actors. Now co-starring with David Schwimmer in "Kissing a Fool," he has an opportunity for wider recognition. The former professional skateboarder, 27, is also set for Smith's next, "Dogma," with fellow "Amy" alumnus Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Rock. "CHASING" ACTORS: "People are wanting to work with everyone from 'Chasing Amy.'