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Kevin Crust

Planning Editor

Now in his second tour with the Los Angeles Times, totaling more than 25 years, Kevin Crust is the planning editor for Entertainment and Arts. He previously served as deputy film editor and staff writer. A lifelong Southern Californian and a graduate of Mount St. Mary’s, he spends way too much time analyzing baseball statistics.

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Television

‘Daily Show’ cancels Milwaukee shows, moves back to N.Y. after assassination attempt on Trump

‘The Daily Show’ will cover the RNC from its New York City studio, instead of from Milwaukee, after the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
July 15, 2024
Entertainment & Arts

Sika Dwimfo, the ‘Godfather of Leimert Park,’ dies at 83

Sika Dwimfo, the Leimert Park artist, master jeweler, community activist and business owner known by his mononym, died Saturday at 83.
June 23, 2024
Entertainment & Arts

USC Scripter Awards for screen adaptations go to ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Slow Horses’

Writers Cord Jefferson and Percival Everett for “American Fiction,” and Mick Herron and Will Smith for “Slow Horses,” won the 36th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for feature film and episodic television adaptation, respectively.
March 3, 2024
Entertainment & Arts

Box office doldrums continue, but ‘Dune: Part Two’ looms on the horizon

“Bob Marley” One Love” stays strong, but “Ordinary Angels” and “Drive-Away Dolls” kept audiences away at the weekend box office.
Feb. 25, 2024
Entertainment & Arts

‘Star Trek’ actor Kenneth Mitchell dies at 49

Kenneth Mitchell, who appeared in the TV series “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Jericho” and “The Astronaut Wives Club,” died Saturday after battling ALS.
Feb. 25, 2024
Movies

The Tokyo Olympics are here. These 5 movies set at the city’s 1964 Games are timely revelations

Tokyo takes centerstage in Cary Grant’s last rom-com, an innovative doc, a crime melodrama, a nostalgic anime and a new documentary with timely POVs on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
July 20, 2021
Movies

Review: For better or worse, ‘Chaos Walking’ crushes the possibility of a sci-fi franchise

Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star in and Doug Liman directs the sci-fi thriller “Chaos Walking,” based on Patrick Ness’ futuristic YA novel series.
March 3, 2021
Movies

Review: Andra Day burns hot and cool as jazz great in ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’

Writer Suzan-Lori Parks and director Lee Daniels present Lady Day as an early civil rights activist in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” starring Andra Day.
Feb. 25, 2021
Movies

Review: A polyamorous relationship is laid bare in ‘Show Me What You Got’

Director-cinematographer Svetlana Cvetko’s ambitious indie drama “Show Me What You Got” follows three twentysomethings in a polyamorous relationship in Los Angeles.
Feb. 12, 2021
Movies

Review: ‘The Dig’ unearths rich emotions in an England on the brink of war

Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James star in “The Dig,” a romantic drama about a 1939 excavation in England as the country prepares for war.
Jan. 30, 2021