The Los Angeles Opera?s new production of ?Il Trittico,? Puccini?s triptych of one-act operas, concludes with Woody Allen?s production of ?Gianni Schicchi.?
LOS ANGELES - Getting inside this year?s MTV Video Music Awards might be more difficult than getting discovered in Hollywood. First, audience members actually have to score a ticket to the show. Then, they have to wade through security and be escorted
Russell Brand seemed a little out of place as the host at the MTV Video Music Awards.Not because he's British or relatively unknown in America, as most of the chatter was about before Sunday night's show from Los Angeles.It was because Brand injected the
The red carpet of the Video Music Awards was its own kind of eye-popping spectacle, but during the show I couldn't take my eyes off Britney Spears. And I wasn't the only one?she had at least two bodyguards watching over her the whole time. At one point
A minute-by-minute account of what went down inside the VMAs: ___ 4:08 p.m.: The doors to Paramount Studios have opened. At first, audience members with cameras are turned away, but there are so many people with cameras that security relents and lets
The MTV Video Music Awards are all about unique collaborations and blowout performances, but a few show guests Sunday added a touch of politics in this hot election year. Host Russell Brand drew hearty applause when he said in his opening monologue he
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