LGBT Center mounts new production of ‘Hair’

Details on the upcoming public memorial for Kobe Bryant are starting to come together — and the date has a special significance for the late NBA superstar.

Kobe Bryant will be saluted during a public memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 24 February.

Roommates, the city of Los Angeles has just announced it will host a public memorial for Kobe and Gianna Bryant, as well as the seven other lives lost in the tragic helicopter crash last week. According to The LA Times, the event will be held at the Staples Center on February 24th.

On Tommy, a new drama series premiering Feb. 6 on CBS, Edie Falco is seemingly very far from the New York City metro area she's so closely associated with thanks to her performances on The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie. She plays Abigail "Tommy" Thomas, a New York Police Department legend who moves across the country to become the first female chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

By Anita Bennett

Vanessa Bryant wants to remember some of the tributes left at the Staples Center by fans of her late husband, Kobe Bryant, and daughter, Gianna. Almost a week after the tragic crash that took the lives of Kobe, Gianna, and seven others, the reports that Vanessa has requested some of the mementos left by fans at the home of the Los Angeles Lakers. 

Brothers for life. 

Mick Jagger stars alongside Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland in Giuseppe Capotondi's The Burnt Orange Heresy, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival.The movie will be hitting theaters in Los Angeles and New York on March 6, and on Monday (Jan. 27), the neo-noir thriller's new trailer dropped.

Within hours of the news of Kobe Bryant’s death breaking, a fast-growing crowd of about two hundred people had gathered outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon to mourn the Lakers legend, who died earlier that day in a helicopter crash.

Within hours of the news of Kobe Bryant’s death breaking, a fast-growing crowd of about two hundred people had gathered outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon to mourn the Lakers legend, who died earlier that day in a helicopter crash.

By Andreas Wiseman

It's a good time to be a member of Tank and the Bangas.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds haven't gone to any award shows in Los Angeles yet, but the two were photographed out by paparazzi this week in New York City—something very rare for them. Lively and Reynolds were shot walking in Manhattan yesterday.

By Ted Johnson

UPDATE: The SAG-AFTRA offices in Los Angeles and New York have received an all-clear after a bomb threat was called in for the second time in three days.