Breakfast Company may seem familiar upon first glance. In fact, it’s the same restaurant by another name. The eatery at 7141 Santa Monica Boulevard, which is in West Hollywood but just a block from the unofficial border of Hollywood on La Brea Avenue, sits on the same space with the same decor and the similar menu as its old self, Breakfast Republic. In October, the breakfast-and-brunch spot quietly reopened with a different moniker. In the past few months, Breakfast Republic was changed to Breakfast Company at multiple restaurant locations. According to the Beverly Press & Park La Brea News, there was no big reason behind the switch except to simplify the business name.

HOLLYWOOD - As the holiday season reaches its cinematic crescendo, this weekend’s movie slate delivers a thrilling and eclectic mix of experiences for filmgoers of all tastes, from blockbuster worlds beyond our own to intimate human stories and faith-inspired epics. With several notable films debuting around December 19, now is the perfect moment to plan a theater outing that matches your mood and interests.

Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery arrives not merely as the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s now-beloved series of whodunnits, but as a wholly immersive mystery that proves clever storytelling and richly drawn characterization still have cinematic power. The film, the third standalone chapter in the Knives Out saga, reunites us with Daniel Craig’s Southern-accented detective Benoit Blanc while expanding the world in surprising and deeply human directions.

Hollywood was stunned this week by a tragedy that has reverberated across the entertainment world and beyond: acclaimed filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home in what authorities have ruled a homicide, and their son, Nick Reiner, has been charged with their murders. The full contours of the case are still emerging, and the story has unfolded with a mix of sorrow, disbelief, and widespread public reaction.

Gilbert Cyril Gerard, the actor whose face became synonymous with futuristic adventure and Saturday-night imagination, has died at the age of 82. A man whose career spanned soaps, the silver screen, countless commercials, and the iconic role of Captain William “Buck” Rogers, he passed away on December 16, 2025, after a brave battle with a rare and aggressive form of cancer, his wife Janet announced. “Gil—my soulmate—lost his fight early this morning,” she wrote, urging others to “hold the ones you have tightly and love them fiercely” in tribute to a life that connected with generations of fans.

There are movies you like, and then there are movies you keep going back to—not because you’ve forgotten them but because you need to be reminded of something they contain. The American President (1995) is one of those few Washington romances that doesn’t just flirt with politics as sexy wallpaper; it insists—softly, stubbornly—that there’s still room for decency in public life and that leadership can be firm without being brutal. Watching it now, after years in which the national mood has verged on an addiction to outrage, it feels less like a fantasy of a perfect administration than a yearning for a familiar kind of humanity in power: flawed people trying, in public, to do the right thing.

Anthony Geary, a titan of daytime television and the man who made General Hospital's Luke Spencer a household name, passed away at the age of 78 in Amsterdam after complications from a routine surgical procedure. A beloved member of the soap community and one-half of the supercouple that made daytime what it is today, the actor was pronounced dead at the scene. Fans, friends, and peers are mourning the loss of this legend, leaving a heavy cloud of grief and remembrance over social media.

Hollywood awoke on December 15, 2025, to a story so wrenching and unfathomable that it felt impossible to process at first — the deaths of one of its most beloved storytellers and the woman who was his partner in life and in work. Robert Norman “Rob” Reiner, the actor who turned into one of America’s great directors, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Sunday, December 14. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported that their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, was taken into custody on suspicion of murder and is being held on $4 million bail as the investigation continues.

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, when the city of dreams sparkled with tinsel, floodlights, and Christmas carols, another set of candles burned quietly in the shadows — eight of them, glowing behind drawn curtains or on modest tabletops in Beverly Hills and Bel Air.

In the world of Hollywood history, where legends are built and forgotten with equal speed, Cari Beauchamp was the rare chronicler who refused to let the voices of the past go silent. Author, historian, journalist, and investigator, she spent her life uncovering the untold stories of the women who helped shape the dream factory — writers, producers, editors, and creators who had once been erased from the credits they helped write.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are two of the most controversial public figures in the world today. Many people admire them for having the courage to break away from an oppressive institution. Others think they are traitors for leaving their positions but not their celebrity lifestyles. This dichotomy is particularly visible in the British press, which still obsesses over the couple’s saga. To understand why this is, it is useful to examine the historical relationship between the royal family and the media as well as the American perspective.

Once upon a time, before craft cocktails and velvet-roped nightclubs came to colonize Hollywood, there was another first taste of the city. Not beneath a neon marquee, but through the doors of a spotless, streamlined restaurant at 1743 North Cahuenga Boulevard. Today the address is a shape-shifting nightlife space, rebuilt, repainted, reinvented so many times its origins have nearly slipped from memory. But in 1939, this was one of Hollywood’s most polished, modern welcome centers: the Fred Harvey Restaurant and Travel Center, a collaboration between the famed Harvey House empire and Santa Fe Trailways designed to greet starry-eyed newcomers with efficiency, glamour, and the faint promise of possibility.