On page 56 of its Jan. 26 issue, Newsweek ran a story about the makers of “The Blair Witch Project” with the following introduction, parodying the film’s opening title card: “In January 1999, “˜The Blair Witch Project’ debuted at Sundance. Read more...

In the high-stakes world of competitive book collecting, everyone is a wild card and anyone can be a dark horse. Now that sounds like my kind of competition. Read more...

While Cox Arquette did manage to rake in a little dough with the “Scream” movies, her film career has never taken off the way it has for some of her co-stars (as anyone who saw “3000 Miles to Graceland” can attest). Read more...

Sometimes an energetic performance is the only way to garner attention for cultural issues that are often ignored by the public. Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles and Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts present the AFAMILA Festival in the Ethnomusicology Courtyard adjacent to the Schoenberg Music Building this Saturday afternoon to celebrate Pilipino American cultural preservation. Read more...

Ever since her performance in 2002’s “The Good Girl,” people suddenly realized that Aniston can act. Although she does still seem to be making cheeseball romantic comedies (“Along Came Polly” doesn’t seem like much of a step up from “The Object of My Affection”), the actress may be poised to be one of the biggest stars to graduate from “Friends.” Keep an eye out for the just-announced thriller “Diary,” in which Aniston will play a married woman whose diary is stolen and used as blackmail against her. Read more...

While the name Henry Mancini may not be as famous as some of the people he’s worked with, anyone who has seen “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” or hummed the slinky saxophone line to “The Pink Panther” theme has heard Mancini, loud and clear. Read more...

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