Matt Brennan
Matt Brennan
Matt Brennan is a Los Angeles Times’ deputy editor for entertainment and arts. Born in the Boston area, educated at USC and an adoptive New Orleanian for nearly 10 years, he returned to Los Angeles in 2019 as the newsroom’s television editor. He previously served as TV editor at Paste Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in Indiewire, Slate, Deadspin and numerous other publications.Source
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The real force behind the celebrity booze boom isn't (just) money

The real force behind the celebrity booze boom isn't (just) money

Jason Momoa is not a vodka connoisseur. He doesn’t even particularly like the stuff — he’s more of a beer guy, if he’s being honest. Which admittedly makes it harder to wrap one’s head around the “Aquaman” star’s latest venture, after forays into climbing gear (So iLL x On the Roam) and bottled water (Mananalu). Vodka. Then again, to hear the catalog of inspirations for Meili, launched earlier this year with MadeWorn creator Blaine Halvorson, is to recognize that the vodka is not entirely the point. Pronounced “may-lee,” the project, as Momoa and Halvorson reveal over the course of a...

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The new 'Perry Mason' re-creates L.A.'s 1930s history. Here's how they did it

The new 'Perry Mason' re-creates L.A.'s 1930s history. Here's how they did it

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Perry Mason is in a phone booth getting the crap kicked out of him by a Fatty Arbuckle type and suddenly it’s 1932 in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles — or may as well be. In point of fact it’s a bright November morning in historic downtown San Pedro, and the sight of modern shipping cranes rising through the haze at the Port of Los Angeles on the drive in is enough to dispel any dreams of time travel. Still, on the set of HBO’s “Perry Mason,” starring , the city’s Depression-era past is distinctly within reach. “It is night and day,” Rhys,...

June 29, 2020
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