Subject: Hollywood

• I'm Obsessed With This Song (For the Time Being)

  "Wintertime in Hollywood" by the Lovetones is not the type of song that normally takes hostage of my internal jukebox in 2007, but it's been doing just that for the last two days. Its full, chiming guitars, swooping bass line, mellifluous white soul vocals and profound tone of bittersweet wistfulness move me to my almost-hollow core. That and it reminds me a lot of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" crossed with Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy," which is a fantastic thing to be reminded of&mdas

  June 8, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 10-5-07

  It's hard to get all that enthused about some of the releases this week, but there's one that I'm definitely all fired up NOT to see. THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING Remember back when Harry Potter was first going to be a movie, and it was suggested that Steven Spielberg would direct, with Haley Joel Osment in the lead, re-setting the action in America? Aren't you glad that didn't happen? Or maybe you're one of those who complained that the Harry Potter movies were somehow too faithful, whateve

  October 5, 2007

• Another racist Hollywood move?

  When I heard that Dragon Ball Z would be a movie, I was more than excited. For years, I dreamed of a live-action Dragon Ball flick, but then I was the guy who owned all the mangas and watched that ancient cheap live-action version of Dragon Ball: The Spirits Within. I used to watch the show before it hit Cartoon Network and became popular. Waaay back when it was on KCAL 9 and you had to wake up at 5 a.m. to catch a Saturday morning episode. Everything was great until I visited IMDB and checked

  January 23, 2008

• Feel better about your mess

  Since moving to Santa Ana from a much larger Hollywood apartment, my home life has been a constant battle against clutter and trash, a struggle I generally lose. I can't invite anyone over to visit due to the shame of my omnipresent pile o' crap. But I feel a whole lot better about it after reading today's Register story that highlights a home in Villa Park: Sixteen live cats, four dead, a 3-foot pile of feces in the middle of the living room and a urine-soaked floor...Officials found cat fece

  February 28, 2008

• To Do Tonight 4/1

  Free Beer Giveaway, All day long! Call for details! Seriously! 625 N. Grand Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92701 (714) 796-7740 Samurai Sword Wack-Off, 7 p.m. Come smack swords with some of the best men in the business. Test your strength. Huntington Beach Pier 714-550-5963 Mary Tyler Moore Laser Light Show, 8:30 p.m. Throw your hat into the air while whistling "Love is All Around" by Paul Williams. You're gonna make it. . . to this awesome laser show! Great Park, Irvine 714-550-5963 Noam Chomsky and T

  April 1, 2008

• Y Tu, Dude?

  May 9, 2002

• Days of Yore

  February 19, 2009

• Nyuk Nyuk

  January 22, 2009

• Exit Stage Left

  January 1, 2009

• Summer '08: Batman Saved the Season, While a Little 'Sex' Went a Long Way and the Indies Went South

  September 4, 2008

• Full of Itself and Not Half As Funny As It Thinks It Is, 'Hamlet 2' Is Simply Tragic

  August 21, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Do People Even Know Who Cantinflas Is?

  May 22, 2008

• Point and Shoot

  April 17, 2008

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Grand Hotel
  

  August 2, 2007

• Locals Only

  All That Spazz: 40 Bands/80 Minutes documents SoCals sonic outsiders

  June 7, 2007

• The Joy in the Bubble

  Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

  May 31, 2007

• Britney Spears

  April 16, 2009

• America's Family Pet Expo

  OC Fairgrounds

  April 16, 2009

• Mutant Puppet Rock Band Roolz

  Radioactive Chicken Heads Carrot Topp declares GWAR

  April 19, 2007

• A Mighty Whiff

  Christopher Guests latest Hollywood dart is duller than his first

  November 23, 2006

• Being Bong

  August 31, 2006

• Remote Hog

  June 15, 2006

• Deep-Sixed

  June 1, 2006

• Special Screenings

  May 25, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 6, 2006

• Behind the Blue Door

  March 24, 2005

• Eight Days

  December 23, 2004

• The Horror, the Horror

  November 25, 2004

• Romance and Resistance

  September 16, 2004

• Clubbed!

  August 14, 2003

• War, Peace and Hank

  Onscreen dissent is on campus

  March 6, 2003

• Stars and Barbs

  September 19, 2002

• Black Beauty

  June 13, 2002

• War Is Heck

  February 7, 2002

• How Neatly Spreads His Claws

  January 31, 2002

• Not a Movie

  September 27, 2001

• ?Quien es Mas Macho?

  August 23, 2001

• Blow Hard

  July 6, 2000

• Monique Powell, Hypersensitive Lead Singer, Save Ferris

  February 24, 2000

• Still Crazy

  October 14, 1999

• MST3Ks Legacy Will Live On

  August 12, 1999

• [Special Screenings] Polish Film Festival, 'Battle In Seattle,' More

  April 30, 2009

• Orange County Bands Set to Invade LA This Weekend

  Plenty of our fave OC bands are headed to a particularly populated county to the north of us this weekend--like Anaheim's We Are the Pilots, pictured.

  May 14, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Mexican Pirates Güey Anchor

  May 21, 2009

• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

  July 16, 2009

• CAIR, WGA-West Seek the Next Great Muslim Hollywood Screenwriter

  ​A shy, talented and unlucky Jewish kid from a loud, talented and obscenely prosperous family refuses to follow in his successful parents' and siblings' footsteps because he dreams of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter--and he's even completed what he knows is the script of the century.But, somehow, he and/or his crackerjack story are completely wrong whenever he pitches the next Citizen Kane to a gauntlet of stereotypical producers, who include bros, feminists, studio ass kissers, shady parami

  July 30, 2009

• The Sandlot

  July 30, 2009

• Man on the Moon

  August 13, 2009

• CAIR, Speaker, Student Say Muslim Screenwriting Seminar "a Success"

  ​Despite Clockwork's attempt to jest while previewing the Council on American-Islamic Relations' "Writing for Hollywood" seminar and pat its own back for getting inserted into the New York Times' coverage of the event for aspiring Muslim screenwriters (as well as some unkind reader comments to our posts), the actual gathering in Los Angeles Tuesday was a "tremendous success," according to CAIR, the featured speaker and at least one of the 20 aspiring filmmakers and writers.Calling the seminar

  August 14, 2009

• What Local Celeb Was at the Hollywood Farmer's Market?

  My chica, in her role as a master food preserver, is at the Hollywood Farmer's Market every so often to tell folks about how to preserve food. I went with her this past Sunday, and apparently was so immersed in a magazine that I cut in front of an Orange County celebrity, one that the paparazzi were trailing. Afterward, I saw the celebrity holding bags of produce, stopping at a booth where a guy was making balloon animals for kiddies and hipsters alike.Gentle readers: who was this celebrity? The

  October 20, 2009