Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing hit theaters across the country and peeled back the layers on race, heat, and pressure building in the streets of Brooklyn like never before. Starring Spike himself as ...

The author of There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood on the reads that recover forgotten legends, reveal backstage political power ...

Hollywood icon Burt Reynolds once got the chance to play an interpretation of God in an episode of a hit sci-fi drama.

Spend a day with Mookie and Co. down in Bed-Stuy in 'Do the Right Thing' ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Actor Ossie Davis has died at 87. He ...

NEW YORK — A godawful White character prowls “Purlie Victorious” — the extremely funny anti-racist farce receiving its first Broadway revival — and Jay O. Sanders is having the time of his life ...

Fast cars, huge shades and, surprisingly, any old trumpet: These are the things that made Miles Miles. Credit...Clockwise from top left, Hulton Archive/Getty Images; David Redfern/Redferns; Mark ...

Coming off the heels of a successful Broadway run in 2023 that saw the 65-year-old satire revived, Purlie Victorious arrived at Studio Theatre with fervor. Born into a sharecropping family sometime ...

Great news, Horror Fam—we can finally stop reading passages from The Book of the Dead, because studio execs are listening and resurrecting more mummy movies! With Blumhouse’s eerie new trailer for Lee ...