Paul Schrader

The trustees for the South Dakota Retirement System are going another direction for their outside auditor.   They chose the Eide Bailly firm Wednesday evening after conducting two sets of interviews and later holding a lengthy closed discussion.   KPMG...

After the coffee. Before seeing who won the Oscar nominations pool. The Skinny: People asked why I didn't participate in our Oscar nominations pool. Here's why. How do Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow get passed over for best director? Thursday's...

Bret Easton Ellis, the author of the controversial "American Psycho" and other novels, has created quite an online reputation for himself with his Twitter feed, through which he has picked fights with Nikki Finke, Lindsay Lohan and now Oscar winner...

I'd say this formula should put some people in the seats. Between writer Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho"), director Paul Schrader ("Auto Focus," "American Gigolo") and, oh yeah, star Lindsay Lohan, the upcoming film "The Canyons" has salaciousness...

Lindsay Lohan was found unconscious in a Marina del Rey hotel Friday. She is currently shooting Elizabeth Taylor biopic "Liz & Dick" and recently wrecked her Porsche in a car accident near Santa Monica....

As Japan's preeminent graphic designer and art director in the 1970s and early '80s, Eiko Ishioka helped build her reputation by heading media campaigns for Parco, a major boutique shopping complex chain. But instead of focusing on fashion or other...

Eiko Ishioka, the celebrated Japanese designer, has died at age 73. Her work included Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai" and the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula," for which she won an Oscar....

Film screenings and festivals: With the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are presenting seminars and symposiums leading up to the big event....

LANCASTER, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Lancaster grandmother pleaded not guilty Wednesday to DUI charges, after allegedly dragging one of her grandchildren from a moving vehicle while she was drunk. 55-year-old Marie Shipley is facing five felony charges....

Shah rukh Khan stars in Ra.One, a kind of Indian Tron...

Writer-director Paul Schrader, who scripted Scorsese's “Raging Bull,” has sold his script about an NSA agent trying to piece together what went wrong in a botched hostage rescue mission. “Recall,” it is titled, and “...