Friday, February 19, 2010 - Posts
AFP - Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was slapped with criminal charges on Friday after allegedly attacking a photographer in Los Angeles last year, city prosecutors said.
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A little-known chapter of the civil rights era gets well-deserved exposure in this film based on Tim Tyson's best-selling book. Unfortunately, real-life events, especially when faithfully rendered, don't always make for good storytelling, and "Blood Done
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Maybe it's something in the water in Long Island's Queens and Nassau counties, but such documentaries as "51 Birch Street," "Capturing the Friedmans" and "Crazy Love" have introduced us to seemingly familiar New York-area families, only to reveal corners
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Here's something for "Gossip Girl" to talk about.
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The rapper’s jail sentence was delayed for dental surgery — and the rapper made sure he used it to have everything taken care of all at once.
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Angela Martin was shockingly axed from “American Idol” just one place shy of the Top 24, and on Friday, she opened up about getting cut on “The Ellen DeGeneres” show.
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The success of one hopeful is causing a stir among parents who are complaining they never got refunds for performance fees in a failed musical production Todrick Hall wrote and directed.
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O'Brien's exit deal with NBC bars him from TV appearances for several months. He is weighing a tour that would take him directly to his fans, according to a person familiar with the proposal.
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Former "Family Ties" actor Brian Bonsall has been arrested again in Colorado, this time on a charge of using marijuana in violation of the terms of his release.
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"Deadliest Catch" star Jake Harris has been arrested for allegedly driving under the influence and being in a hit and run accident.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that Joe Jackson can receive his son's medical records from the hospital where he died.
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French veteran Gerard Depardieu charmed audiences in his latest film "Mammuth" with his depiction of a lumbering, hairy anti-hero who re-discovers the poetry in life after retiring.
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- Actor Wesley Snipes, who has tax problems of his own, had a blunt reaction to news about a software engineer who crashed his plane into an office building with nearly 200 IRS employees inside.
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A documentary that explores gaps in U.S. security from the point of view of a whistleblower who had spotted problems before the 9/11 attacks made its debut on Friday at the Berlin film festival.
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Actor-director Sean Penn was charged Friday with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fall.
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Former "Family Ties" actor Brian Bonsall has been arrested again in Colorado, this time on a charge of using marijuana in violation of the terms of his release.
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- Actor Wesley Snipes, who has tax problems of his own, had a blunt reaction to news about a software engineer who crashed his plane into an office building with nearly 200 IRS employees inside.
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Actor-director Sean Penn was charged Friday with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fall.
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Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit with the family of a young man critically injured in a car crash caused by the celebrity wrestler's son.
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The actor faces battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation last fall in which he kicked a photographer.
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Tiger is just one of many public figures to offer an apology for their bad behavior. See how many times the golfer, Bill Clinton, A-Rod and others used certain words in their confessions.
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The actor faces battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation last fall in which he kicked a photographer.
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Across the vast spectrum of celebrity apologies, few in the spotlight ever admit, as Woods did Friday, that they felt entitled to break the rules.
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California prosecutors say Sean Penn faces battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fall.
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AFP - Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano, who brought the yakuza gangster genre to a global public, says he could have made his life in the underworld had it not been for his mother.
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Gerard Depardieu has rejected the discussion over his right to play mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas because he is a blue-eyed blonde.
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I did not have high hopes for this episode when I saw the promos. More to the point, a fashion show that would be of interest to the head buyers of Kids R Us is not what we signed up for.
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To say the least, it can be difficult releasing a film when your star director is confined to his Swiss chalet awaiting possible extradition to the U.S. for a sex crime committed in the 1970s.
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He's mastered the role of a mutant with metal claws — but foreign languages are a tall order for Hugh Jackman.
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A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard a taxiing Air Canada flight.
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Dozens of broadcast networks, cable news outlets and online streams carried his prepared statement live, allowing a global audience to see and hear from Woods for the first time since his public image went into free fall nearly three months ago.
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To say the least, it can be difficult releasing a film when your star director is confined to his Swiss chalet awaiting possible extradition to the U.S. for a sex crime committed in the 1970s.
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To say the least, it can be difficult releasing a film when your star director is confined to his Swiss chalet awaiting possible extradition to the U.S. for a sex crime committed in the 1970s.
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It turns out the actress who voiced the teen girl with Down syndrome — the one who said her mom was the ex- governor of Alaska — has Down syndrome herself. And she wants Palin to back off.
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British actor and film director Lionel Jeffries, who wrote the screenplay for and directed "The Railway Children," has died at the age of 83, his agent said on Friday.
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Lionel Jeffries, whose numerous film roles included Grandpa Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," has died at age 83.
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Mirroring the Oscars, Britain's top film awards the BAFTAs pit 3-D blockbuster "Avatar" against low-budget Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker," directed by former husband and wife James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow respectively.
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British director Michael Winterbottom has defended graphic scenes of violence in his latest movie "The Killer Inside Me" which prompted dozens of people to walk out of a press screening in disgust.
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Anxious to know where your favorite cable shows stand? Michael Ausiello rounds up a list of shows that have been renewed, cut or are still in limbo.
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It's getting down to the wire for "Smallville," "Community" and other network series stuck in Nielsen purgatory — with just weeks go before final verdicts on their fates are decided.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel said Thursday that "everything looks good" with Lohan's progress in a court-ordered drug and alcohol education program.
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An online effort to draft Hoosier rocker John Mellencamp to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Indiana's Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is building up steam.
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Mirroring the Oscars, Britain's top film awards the BAFTAs pit 3-D blockbuster "Avatar" against low-budget Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker", directed by former husband and wife James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow respectively.
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It's not just Hollywood studios and talent agencies that get roiled and restructured by mergers. The spin-meisters themselves, whose billings are under pressure and whose star clients' lives are under ever-increasing scrutiny, are undergoing their own
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Fittingly for a festival where low-budget movies jostle with big Hollywood names, three small eastern European entries and Roman Polanski's picture starring Ewan McGregor are favorites for the main prize in Berlin.
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Fans of the blockbuster "Avatar" applaud the film's use of 3D technology, but the Italian government believes it may also present a health risk.
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Owen Wilson is attached to star in the new Woody Allen movie that will shoot this summer.
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Credit the producers of next month's Oscar ceremony for thinking way outside of the box.
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To nobody's surprise, "Avatar" dominates the tech race at this year's Oscars.
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Forget the rules of awards season, we were told.
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Producer Grant Turck has optioned film rights to the late Shepherd Mead's satirical guidebook "How to Succeed With Women Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to the Birds and Bees."
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Meryl or Sandra?
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Will it be the cows or the dolphins?
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