ENTERTAINMENT
February 25, 2011 | By Gary Goldstein
The clumsily shot and scripted "Now & Later" is a hollow concoction of sex, politics and endless chatter that's just a few camera angles short of hard-core porn. But, in truth, without its blunt ? and seemingly non-simulated ? array of sex scenes between international banker-on-the-lam Bill (James Wortham) and Angela (Shari Solanis), the free-spirited Nicaraguan nurse he hides out with for a little "Last Tango in Downtown L.A.," writer-director Philippe Diaz's film would be way more of a full-frontal bore.
WORLD
November 15, 2010 | By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times
At Sami Abu Hossein's cramped bookstore, the hundred or so book titles listed on a wall aren't bestsellers. They're banned. And the cheery Abu Hossein can you get you any of them, sometimes in the few minutes it takes to sit down and drink a cup of thick-brewed Turkish coffee. "There are three no-nos," the owner of Al Taliya Books explains with a big smile. "Sex, politics and religion. Unfortunately, that's all anyone ever wants to read about. " He laughs uproariously.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 16, 2010 | By Bruce Watson
The Eyes of Willie McGee A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South Alex Heard Harper: 404 pp., $26.99 In Jim Crow's dark closet, countless skeletons lie moldering and forgotten. For every "cold case" prosecution that brings a doddering ex-Klansman to trial, dozens more victims await their journey down the long "arc of justice." Now, another tragedy has come to light through the diligent detective work of author Alex Heard. When Willie McGee was executed in 1951, the civil-rights movement was just starting to stir.
OPINION
February 3, 2005 | MARGARET CARLSON
I was trying to think of a person other than Hillary Rodham Clinton whose fainting would be breaking news on three continents. George and Laura, yes. Sen. John McCain, maybe. Jennifer Aniston? Possibly, if her swoon followed the sighting of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie en flagrante. My point is that Hillary is in a class by herself, and not just because she powered through two more speeches that day. Her historic move -- straight from the East Wing to the U.S.
NEWS
August 5, 2001 | MEGAN GARVEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Two guys--congressional staffers--liked to play a little game. When a fresh batch of interns arrived for their stint of photocopying, snaring politicians' signatures for petitions and other clerical tasks, Guy A would send one of the young women to pick up a package at Guy B's office. Only the package would never be quite ready. The young woman would wait, mill around the office and finally be given an envelope to return. The contents? A scorecard rating her looks.
OPINION
December 27, 1998 | Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt, a contributing editor to Opinion, is director of the JSM+ New Media Lab
The impeachment of President Bill Clinton may well be as much about the media as it is about politics, lying or misbehavior. The process began when a conservative magazine, the American Spectator, failed to excise a name from a reporter's draft and identified a woman named Paula as having had a sexual liaison with Clinton while he was governor. It ramped up to full bore when the news about Monica S. Lewinsky broke, not in the Washington Post or in Newsweek, but on the Internet's Drudge Report.