Horsey on Hollywood

The great escape.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

In force.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

The promised land.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Hooray for Hollywood?   (David Horsey/Los Angeles Times)

Director Martin Scorsese’s “Wolf of Wall Street” presents filthy greed and wretched excess in a way that seems to excite moviegoers.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Heading into the Super Bowl, big mouth Richard Sherman may be the most famous, or infamous, football player in America.   (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Two women in the news this week -- Katie Couric and Miley Cyrus.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

The A&E cable network may have laid an egg over its “Duck Dynasty” controversy.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Gunplay in PG-13 movies has tripled since 1985, a study shows.   (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Netflix has been making further strides into mainstream Hollywood, irritating TV networks and theater owners with talk about changing the rules of the movie and TV distribution game.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Now that Charlie Hunnam has dropped out, the race is on to find a male lead for “Fifty Shades of Grey.”  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Should there be a special line of undergarments to prevent awards show slip-ups?   (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

The celebrated Kardashian glam-fam is in the news again, this time over a holiday card shot by celebrity photographer David LaChapelle.   (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is the host and star of his own reality show, blurring the lines separating politics, journalism and entertainment.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Neither right nor left, the CNN viewer is more interested in national disasters than national affairs.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Sandra Bullock could be experiencing the weightlessness of Oscar.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Horsey on Hollywood: Summer blockbusters  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Horsey on Hollywood: Comic-Con  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)

Movie moguls and their lawyers are fighting about who owns what parts of the movie rights to J.R.R. Tolkein’s timeless novels.  (David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)