Chris Lee

April 21, 2014 at 6:15 am

It’s tough to be the girls of summer — rock fests are a boys’ club

INDIO, Calif. — Dee Dee Penny, lead singer of the Dum Dum Girls, is no stranger to performing at giant summer-musical events. At the first...

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April 18, 2014 at 8:13 pm

Hollywood on mission to win faith of Christians

LOS ANGELES — Randall Wallace didn’t expect a rock-star reception when he went on the road to promote his faith-based drama “Heaven is for Real”...

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January 28, 2014 at 11:22 am

Daft Punk: Who’s inside the helmets?

LOS ANGELES — To the pop cognoscenti, the French dance-music duo Daft Punk exists as an ideal, modern musicdom’s most consistent, influential, enigmatic trailblazer, in...

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December 26, 2013 at 12:00 am

In ‘Justin Bieber’s Believe,’ director aims to look beyond stardom

LOS ANGELES — Justin Bieber wasn’t sure he liked what he saw. When the petite pop prince from the Great White North first viewed a...

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January 16, 2011 at 10:53 pm

Golden Globes: Ricky Gervais gets back almost as good as he gets

Not everyone thought comments by Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais were appropriate — or funny.

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July 16, 2010 at 1:47 pm

Musical acts’ summer tours encounter heavy weather

Concert promoters and critics look at a music industry being rocked by lackluster summer ticket sales and canceled concerts.

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July 8, 2009 at 12:00 am

Memorial puts Michael Jackson’s children in the spotlight

With all the mourning and music, celebrity performers and soaring speeches by black leaders at Staples Center on Tuesday, it was easy to overlook a...

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July 6, 2009 at 12:00 am

Jackson worth $100M more than he owed?

With lucrative company holdings and tremendous posthumous sales, the singer's estate also has massive earning potential.

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February 21, 2009 at 12:00 am

Hollywood party crasher tells all, on film

A trio of pranksters/journalists/filmmakers made a documentary about an average guy who was good at crashing Hollywood events. Now they're advising Oscars officials on security...

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January 24, 2009 at 9:15 am

T-Pain and Auto-Tune head to the Key

Auto-Tune technology got T-Pain where he is, and he's not about to abandon it. T-Pain appears on a bill with Lil Wayne, Gym Class Heroes...

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