Where are all the hangnails?
Beyond the swelling emotion, there's actually a story!
They're not afraid to show off.
Wes Anderson's latest: Twee movie, big hit
What is a season?
The superhero epic sports staying power — UPDATE.
Jim, I'll miss you.
This show certainly knows how to pull at your heartstrings.
But is this guerrilla marketing or just a fan-made ruse?
The champions prove to be the best 'Racers' yet.
Bucking conventional wisdom, the Top 6 prove why risk-taking is smart.
Probably not the kind of record the CW was hoping for.
I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me. It's not you, it's me.
The Irish singer has gone through a lot over the past year.
The singer/actress breaks down on the stand.
He's got a bit of a record with these things.
For the second time in as many seasons.
What fans need to know by the end of episode eight.
There's a new legend in late night.
A new look at the action star's New York City thriller.
The long-awaited season 5 premiere was watched by 3.5 million people.
Acting like the dead helps Kristen Stewart come alive.
No one seems to understand the danger of celebrity impersonators.
Only 'Twilight' can tease a teaser.
Box office history gives it a fighting chance.
Simpson is famous for her "TMI" moments.
He was protesting outside of the Sudan embassy.
We find the good-ish in a light and pretty terrible genre.
This won't be your typical spring break movie.
The sci-fi blockbuster had a big weekend - but can it be a success?
Find out who made the top of the list.
Check out Kristen Stewart as a vampire!
Youths worldwide cheer.
The TV host comes up with her own version of "Women Tell All."
For the first time ever, a finalist joins the ladies' night.
Why this former 'Housewife' is looking for justice.
Will he be just as ruthless?
He does have some good pics under his belt.
"Sweet Sixteen" hits a low-point for the season.
It's pretty awesome.
Part 1 of the supernatural romance saga swoops on to shelves.
The real cliffhanger: will he or won't he?
It's the most important drink of the day.
The actor takes to the big screen to shake his 'Office' character.
Find out what to expect in the second half of the season.
Check out a sneak peak of how it all will unfold.
She spoke about it on a French television show.
Former boyfriends, beware!
It will transform your collection.
According to Hugh Hefner.
With a plethora of family films, blockbusters and Oscar contenders to please virtually every audience, the holiday season will hopefully gain momentum as we head into the final month of the box office year.
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a film debut with over $100 million, but the wait is over!
But is he the "Most Crooked Cop Ever?"
'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1' scores big as audiences give the film an estimated debut of around $72 million on Friday!
Is Edward Cullen insecure? That's what Rpattz says.
Only one more day.
'Twilight's' hot-blooded werewolf talks imprinting, letting go of Bella, and more.
'Breaking Dawn' will cause teen girls to spend mucho cash at the box office this weekend!
The Cullen parents talk about how the saga has changed their lives.
The wolf pack members speak out.
She's heading to the past, and cannot see the future.
Alice and Jasper talk supernatural powers, purple dinosaurs, fake mustaches, and more!
How original.
With electrifying results.
Harmony Korine is writing and directing.
Be warned, though: It's of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it variety.
No tomb can hold him.
Umm, why did they change it?!?!
The world is unsafe from parody.
An amazing record-breaking debut for Paranormal Activity 3 of $54.020 million exceeds all expectations!
THE wedding scene!
Maybe this time will stick?
Goofy, colorful, cheerful, unexpected, fun.
The scene is set for the series' fifth and final season.
Is your heart racing yet?
Both of their reps confirm the news.
Thank God for commercials or we'd die from not breathing.
The 'Juno' star is ready to school the new girl.
They will still co-star in 'SNL,' though.
Mars gets a New Moon.
The cliffhanger to top all cliffhangers.
Oh brother...
Well, he is Wolverine.
Your daily dose of feathers and foreheads.
Some play to type, some change it up.
The cartel is demolished.
Maybe he'll get his first natural tan.
Check out the official trailer for 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1'!
Again...
Of course it is.
Walt's support group is ever slimming.
YOU try giving birth to a vampire.
No lovin' for Jacob.
Well that's....interesting.
Highs and lows, but a thrilling new backstory.
He must have thought Dr. House's first name was Myra-Monk.
Jesse crumbles, Walt blows up a car, Hank follows the clues
Which couples called it quits this summer?
The baseball stud is back on the market!
The quiet before the storm.
Skyler and Walt finally meet face to face.
They said it wasn't possible. They were wrong.
Best. News. Ever.
This Fall: Mike & Jesse in 'The Drop-Offs'
And the photo shoot delivers KStew like you've never seen her before.
Going behind the camera for 'Home Again' adaptation.
Yeah, it's a bad sign when you're in Paris and you're crying.
No need to abort, the countdown starts
It will be his 16th time hosting.
Walt might be getting a new network.
Marie is back to her glory days (of petty theft).
Two Whites broken, two yet to break.
Not necessarily the height of creative composition
Sink your teeth into this ladies
Highlight of the episode: Badger referencing sleestaks.
Fans are thirsty for details
Live from the San Diego Convention Center!
She wants to spend more time with Ozzie
Team Jacob and Team Edward unite for a hefty round of questioning.
Well, they got to work.
The balance of power between Walt and Gus shifts once again.
It is nearly impossible to overstate the enormity of the momentous box office achievement that took place this weekend.
The final franchise entry is on course to be the biggest yet!
To those not entirely broken in: this article is riddled with spoilers
This Sunday, get your first look at season 2
I've got a feeling...
The show's fifth season may be its last.
Times up!
Obviously.
Lindsay Lohan has revealed that she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson have split.
It's back to bachelorhood
Baby Mama Drama
It's the single life again for George
Heisenberg finally returns July 17.
Remember how badass Breaking Bad is?
They'd been together for eight months.
Here's how you can get your hands on this great season of TV!
Love and marriage and vampires.
Aw shucks.
OMFG...is way too much excitement for this, but I'll allow it.
Expletive.
...And I've already fallen asleep.
After five years of going to Lakers games.
We've got your inside look at the new film!
FINALLY.
They met in 2006 but started dating in 2009.
Great, now there's no hope for humanity.
To talk about "recovery and stuff."
Sammi and Ronnie fight again.
Well, it's just a picture of actress Mackenzie Foy, NOT in character...boo-hooo...
RIP Swiftaal.
Like a PRO, might I add!
After a record-setting opening weekend, we look back at the series' blockbuster track record!
America, this is you.
That John Denver's full of shit, man.
Everyone, come get your chances!
OMFG, we have some Twilight news!!!
Don't Don't Don't Don't!
After easily becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time during its theatrical run, 'Avatar' has begun disposing of DVD and Blu-ray records.
Show will set new and extremely random records each week.
The 'Sixth Sense' auteur tells MTV all about his 'Unbreakable' sequel
Point Break is an elegy to manliness on all levels.
Sammi and Ronnie continue fighting, while the rest of the roommates don't know what to do about it.
'Step-Up 3D' could be the launching pad of our next Brando. No, really.
Meyer talks about it at the 'Eclipse' premiere in Los Angeles.
The fourth 'Twilight' book is being split into two film releases.
The self-help giant will help six families overcome their personal struggles and challenges.
Conan O'Brien visited Google HQ with Andy Richter, and brought some comical bitterness with him.
Bill Condon's conclusion to 'The Twilight Saga' will hit theaters on November 18th 2011
In an interview with '60 Minutes,' Conan O’Brien speaks candidly about Jay Leno, 'The Tonight Show' and more -- but yeah, mostly Jay.
There might be a network standing between Law & Order and a record-breaking 21st season.
Coppola, Van Sant and Condon have been contacted by the studio
Bruce Willis is planning to reteam with horror director M. Night Shyamalan and make a sequel to 2000 thriller 'Unbreakable.'
The fourth installment in the 'Twilight' series, 'Breaking Dawn,' will be shot as two films back-to-back, Deadline.com reports.
Mel Gibson's new movie 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' is already causing controversy in Mexico -- relatives of inmates at a Veracruz jail have blasted plans to move prisoners to make way for the film shoot.
Mariah Carey is to be honored for her acting skills at the 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.
The new poster for Daybreakers starring Ethan Hawke and William Dafoe
Jennifer Aniston has shed light on the breakdown of her high-profile romances -- suggesting previous lovers like John Mayer and Vince Vaughn were too "lazy" to communicate their feelings during their relationship.
Actress Katherine Heigl is temporarily hanging up her 'Grey's Anatomy' scrubs to concentrate on her movie career.
An Australian teenager has hit out at Miley Cyrus -- accusing the superstar of wrecking her relationship with actor Liam Hemsworth.
Sean Penn is taking a break from his movie career -- the Oscar winner has pulled out of his next two film projects.
Kate Winslet wants to turn her back on Hollywood because she's sick of life in the spotlight.
Britney Spears' cousin and former assistant insists the press and emergency services made far too much of the incident that sparked the pop star's alleged breakdown at the beginning of 2008 -- stating the singer just wasn't ready to end a visitation with her sons.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have spoken out to quash rumors of an imminent break-up -- as reports of a split refuse to go away.
Three people were arrested and two hospitalized at an audition for hit TV series America's Next Top Model.
Prison Break will be seeing some permanent jail time.
Ouch! Ben Stiller took a tumble this past weekend while snow boarding and broke his hand.
When Prison Break premiered four years ago no one thought it would make it past the first season, but the drama defied expectations by reinventing the show time and time again.
Holly Madison, star of that stellar reality show The Girls Next Door, has a few choice words to say about her recent break-up with Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner
For a show whose entire premise is summarized in its two-word title, Prison Break, its fourth season premiering Sept. 22 on Fox, has a very complex story. It is like the old movie serials. Each week, you could watch Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) plan one element of the escape, up to a cliffhanger in which it looks like he’s been foiled--until he finds a way out of it next week.
As an avid Prison Break watcher for the past three seasons, it’s no surprise the writers are hitting the reset button once again, or as star Wentworth Miller would say, “We take what we already know works and toss it out the window at the start of every season.” It’s not completely out with the old (heck even Dr. Sara Tancredi’s coming back) and in with the new for season four, but luckily I had Miller (aka Michael Scofield) on hand to break it down for us.
“Are they? Or, aren’t they?” If Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson were to answer this question, are they friends or more than friends, it'd put a stop to the media frenzy. But, that is the answer in itself.
At least for the time being Orlando Bloom has decided to leave the pirates and orcs behind to star in an independent film about life in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 seige, Reuters reports.
The last time we saw Dr. Sara Tancredi, she was a mere decapitated head in a box and it was time for Prison Break star Sarah Wayne Callies to do some “mourning and grieving” over the loss of her character. Truly uncharacteristic of the show (we know how much they love to kill off their leads), the show is bringing Dr. Tancredi back for Prison Break’s fourth season.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull--Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford's fourth installment--is likely headed to the all-time number one five-day record with $177M-$187M possible.
Pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has invited new pal Katie Holmes for a Paris city break--without their respective children.
U.S. presidential drama Commander In Chief has been temporarily pulled from the ABC TV schedule because network executives are unhappy with the show's low ratings.
Hollywood hunk Matthew McConaughey has reportedly broken his collarbone after tumbling from his surfboard while holidaying in Costa Rica.
The two-hour season finale of plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck has made TV history for cable channel FX after recording the network's biggest ratings ever.
Former Baywatch beauty Brooke Burns has been hospitalized after breaking her neck in a swimming pool accident.
Teen mogul Mary-Kate Olsen has announced plans to spend time away from the prestigious New York University, following months of speculation she would drop out.
Nicky Hilton's marriage annulled, Renee Zellweger plans break from acting, Liza Minnelli sues former chauffeur, more...
Britney says she wants to take a break, Melissa Etheridge recoups after cancer surgery, Jon Stewart in feud with CNN's Tucker Carlson
Slim-Fast drops Whoopi Goldberg, Britney Spears' ex-hubby spills the beans, Halle Berry's former husband dishes on breakup, more...
Actor John Stamos, whose five-year marriage to actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos ended in April, told the syndicated TV entertainment show Access Hollywood in excerpts released Monday the breakup has been difficult for the both of them. Also in the news: Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Paris Hilton, Jay-Z, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lindsay Lohan, Being Julia, Al Sharpton and Nielsen primetime ratings for June 21-27.
Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 broke single-day box office records at the two New York theaters where it played Wednesday. Also in the news: Bill Clinton, Billy Crystal , Barbara Walters, Barbra Steisand, Billy Crystal, Neil Diamond, Dave Matthews, Whoopi Goldberg, John Kerry, Bill Hemmer, Lester Holt, Shepard Smith, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Tommy Lee, Sean Christie, Bob Dylan and Jonathan Davis.
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pushing the date of its annual Oscar ceremony up a month to Feb. 29, many speculated the usual rush of year-end Oscar hopefuls would also plow ahead. Also Ben Affleck Jennifer Lopez Survivor: Pearl Islands Emmy Gift Bags Alex Yemenidjian Paul McCartney David Blaine Jackie Collins
Depp Explains Unpatriotic Quotes, Thornton Still Mystified by Jolie Breakup, Reality TV Gets Awards Ceremony, more
Charlie's Angels star Cameron Diaz, who was seen Tuesday sporting two tiny bandage strips on the bridge of her nose, said she broke her nose Saturday during a surfing accident off Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. Also: Jake Gyllenhaal Christian Bale Joshua Jackson Cillian Murphy, Henry Cavill Eion Bailey Batman Christopher Nolan Johnny Depp 50 Cent Macaulay Culkin Scarface Rand Brooks
News, Sept. 2: Venice Film Festival Fetes Some, Boos Others; Jerry Lewis Telethon Breaks Bank; Cybersquatters Defined Sofia Coppola Bill Murray Lost in Translation Antonio Banderas Emma Thompson Imagining Argentina Madonna Britney Spears Michelle Rodriguez Carson Daly Pierce Brosnan
Adam Sandler Gets Hitched, New Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Book Sales Breaks Records, Nelly Organizes Bone Marrow Drive for Sister Lil' Kim American Idol Ruben Studdard Clay Aiken Cedric the Entertainer
Not only did the revved-up sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious win the weekend's box office race with a $50.5 million debut, the John Singleton-directed film also managed to break the record for the biggest opening for a black director.
Spike Lee Sues Over Spike TV, Homemaking Guru Indicted, Barry Manilow Breaks Famous Schnozz, Jim Carrey Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Cate Blanchett Kate Beckinsale Martha Stewart Clay Aiken Ruben Studdard John Cusack Kelly Clarkson
News, May 27: Hilary Duff Breaks With Disney, Liza Minnelli Breaks Her Knee, Gay Reality TV Breaks Out Curtis Hanson Will Ferrell Vince Vaughn Luke Wilson Old School The Simpsons Matt Groening A Mighty Wind
News, May 16: The Matrix Reloaded Already Breaking Box Office Records, Halle Berry Injured on Movie Set, "Untouchables" Actor Robert Stack Dies Nicolas Cage Mariah Carey Eminem
News, Feb. 25 Busta Rhymes' SUV Shot At; Michael Jackson Back in Court George Harrison Princess Diana Daniel Day-Lewis Rebecca Miller Peter O'Toole Julie Christie Brad Pitt Orlando Bloom Wolfgang Petersen Troy Rob Lowe Danny DeVito Nicole Kidman Nora Ephron
Nell Carter dies at 54. Nicolas Cage Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise Sarah Jessica Parker Matthew Broderick Taye Diggs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Chicago
Oscar-winning Russell Crowe has announced he is taking an extended hiatus from Hollywood--all in the name of love.
Sony Pictures Entertainment said today it set an annual film-revenue record this weekend, surpassing $1.27 billion in ticket sales.
Pop princess Britney Spears, who enraged thousands of fans in Mexico City last month when she abruptly walked off the stage after singing only four songs, will be taking a six-month break. Britney Spears British Film Institute Citizen Kane 74th Academy Awards Mel Gibson Jim Caviezel Passion Halle Berry The Guide Thomas Perry Miramx Films Coors Brewing Co. Pop Idol American Idol Santana Shaman
News Roundup for July 29 - Ozzy Osbourne will take a three-week break from the Ozzy Fest to be with wife Sharon as she goes through chemotherapy treatments. Other celebrities includes Margot Kidder Renee Zellweger Will Smith Chris Rock Sean Penn Patrick Stewart X-Men 2 Britney Spears
Actor Robert Duvall fractured several ribs Monday while rehearsing for his new Western
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake deny rumors of split
After just breaking from their management company the Firm the Backstreet Boys Nick Carter Kevin Richardson Brian Littrell Howie Dorough and AJ McLean may now be facing Carter going solo
News Roundup for Dec. 27--Ali opens Christmas Day with $10.2 million Lord of the Rings takes first Kate & Leopold takes third Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone passes Shrek. Michael Jackson Britney Spears Hugh Jackman Jack Nicholson Adam Sandler Mary Tyler Moore Marlene Dietrich
Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator T2 Batman and Robin Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines T3 Intermedia Warner Bros. Jill Eisenstadt
News Roundup Nov. 30 Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone Steven Spielberg A.I. Artifical Intelligence Cats & Dogs Jim Carrey Antonio Banderas Anthony Quinn Madonna Guy Ritchie Oprah Winfrey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone The Lost World Jurassic Park Star Wars Episode One The Phantom Menace J K Rowling
George Clooney backs three SAG members who were expelled from the union for performing work during the commercial strike
Minnie Driver breaks engagement
Sounds Off: Breaking up is NOT hard to do Julia Roberts Benjamin Bratt Elizabeth Taylor Kate Winslet Gwyneth Paltrow Ben Affleck Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise
An Australian film company, Media World Broadcasting Ltd., has demonstrated a technology to deliver high-quality, full-screen video to personal computers in real time over ordinary phone lines with a simple 28K modem.
HOLLYWOOD, May 19, 2000 -- Whatever happened to Dana Carvey? This: According to the "Saturday Night Live" alum, a doctor botched an open-heart surgery procedure on him in 1998, operating on the wrong artery. The 44-year-old comic testified to such today in San Francisco, taking the stand in his $7.5 million lawsuit against the surgeon. Carvey filed the complaint in 1999. Today, he told jurors he remembers "just lying in my bed just sobbing" after being told of the mishap. Not to blame the patient or anything, but the doctor in question says Carvey had an "unusual anatomy." The onetime "Wayne's World" wonder says the surgeon's slip of the knife cost him six months of work. Until resurfacing recently for celebrity week of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," Carvey fell off the map after the demise of his 1996 ABC sketch comedy show.
Unless the Grinch scares people away from their local cinemas, a new record could be set at the box office Christmas weekend as a half-dozen newly released dramas boasting Academy Award-winning casts will compete with several children's films and other holdovers from previous weeks. In each of the past three years, a new box-office record was set on Christmas weekend, and with the release of films such as Warner Bros.' "Any Given Sunday" starring Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid and Cameron Diaz, Paramount's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Jude Law, and Universal's "Man on the Moon" with Jim Carrey, industry experts believe movie grosses for Friday through Sunday could surpass $150 million - breaking the Christmas weekend record of $147.5 million set last year, when films such as "Patch Adams," You've Got Mail" and "Stepmom" were hot ite
HOLLYWOOD, June 5, 2000 -- Today in the Bob Hope medical watch, we are pleased to inform you that the legendary 97-year-old comic is: (1) improving (2) in stable condition (3) eating eggs (4) "enjoying some butterscotch candy provided by his doctor" (5) "chatting animatedly" with his wife, Dolores All this per officials at Eisenhower Regional Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where Hope has been hospitalized since Thursday for intestinal bleeding. More details on Mr. Hope's lunch as they develop.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21, 2000 - Anne Heche, phone home. Please. The 31-year-old actress is reportedly in Toronto, Canada today, preparing to shoot a new movie with Denzel Washington, after she spent a weird weekend - including a brief hospital stay - in Fresno, Calif., of all places. Yes, that's right. Fresno. In case you missed it, Heche and Ellen DeGeneres publicly ended their three-year, same-sex, highly public romance on Saturday issuing a statement in which they said they'd had an "amicable parting" and asked everyone to respect their privacy "during this difficult time." But, that same day, Heche was apparently driving through central California when her car broke down about 40 miles west of Fresno. According to news reports, she walked about a mile before knocking on the door of a rural house and babbling something to the occupants inside. The residents
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 7, 2000 -- ABC News knows its news. And it's got the Emmys to prove it. The network was the big winner at Wednesday’s 21st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, winning two statuettes for "Nightline" and "ABC 2000," its marathon millennium special. ABC executive producer Tom Yellin also picked up an Emmy for ABC News’ "Searching for the Promised Land" installment of "The Century." ABC went in with 21 nominations Wednesday night and left with a total of 11 statuettes. Here’s how the rest of the networks made out by the end of the night: CBS, 6; NBC, 6; PBS, 5; TBS, 3; Cinemax, 2; CNN, 2; HBO, 1; and TNT, 1.
Pop superstar Mariah Carey was hospitalized for exhaustion after her tough schedule, including filming two movies and writing, recording and producing her latest album, has taken its toll.
The latest animated feature from Hayao Miyazaki grossed $15.8 million in its opening weekend in Japan...
Ailing Leonardo DiCaprio is on crutches after he sprained his knee July 1 playing basketball with his celebrity friends, People magazine reports.
Anchorman Tom Brokaw signed off for the summer, leaving "NBC Nightly News" in the capable hands of Brian Williams. But will Brokaw return?
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, mother to Maria Shriver, broke her leg in a car accident Friday but is in good condition after undergoing surgery.
Bassist Howie Epstein, of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, was arrested along with singer Carlene Carter after they were allegedly stopped in a stolen vehicle in Albuquerque, N.M., The Associated Press Reports.
The Screen Actor Guild has banned eight Hollywood actors from joining the union after they crossed picket lines against advertisers last year, Variety reports.
Jennifer Lopez, whose new film Enough focuses on a woman fleeing from her abusive husband, to Entertainment Tonight, about women in such relationships:
"Women say, 'I can't believe this is happening to me, this can happen to anybody, you can be in a situation and fall in love and just give yourself away and be so enamored with someone, and then you find yourself in this pattern where you can't get out.' It becomes this type of thing where you start hating yourself in a way and you can't break the pattern. It becomes something more internal."
Glen Jones, a disc jockey with the freeform station WFMU in Jersey City, N.J., made it into the Guinness Book of Records at 1 p.m. Tuesday after staying on the air for 100 hours and 40 seconds straight, according to the station. Comparing himself to previous recordholder Greg Daines, Jones said he was the "heavyweight champion of the world" after his show went a minute longer than the British DJ. Jones, 39, was allowed to take a 15-minute break every eight hours, and the songs that he played had to last between two and six minutes. Jones took calls during the broadcast, including one from KISS' Gene Simmons. Jones is the host of a weekly show on WFMU and a radio producer for Court TV during the week.
Pearl Harbor is well on its way to breaking box office records this Memorial Day weekend.
Director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) is staying with Disney for his third film, Signs, another foray into the supernatural, according to Variety. The director has inked an undisclosed eight-figure deal in negotiations with Disney execs. Sense and Unbreakable have grossed a combined $900 million worldwide for Disney. Signs is reportedly about mysterious crop circles that appear in a Philadelphia field. No release date has been scheduled.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 3, 2000 -- Strikebreakers are getting a break, and a lot of people are not liking it. The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists has handed down its verdict for defectors who had done struck work during the work stoppage, according to news reports. In a decidedly less severe move than the Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA will not impose a lifetime ban on strikebreakers. Furthermore, the process of evaluation for punishment will be left up to local AFTRA offices rather than the union's national board. "We took as strong an action as we constitutionally could to ensure that strikebreakers be called to account for their actions," AFTRA's executive director, Greg Hessinger, told Daily Variety. "Applications are processed locally, so the national board is limited in what it can do." Meanwhile, AFTRA's perceived leniency in dealing with stri
HOLLYWOOD, July 18, 2000 -- Is Elizabeth Hurley a union-buster, or just an actress who doesn't pay much attention to current events? The Screen Actors Guild is trying to determine whether Hurley should be suspended, fined or otherwise punished by the union after learning that she taped an Estee Lauder fragrance commercial last week in New York. SAG and the American Federation of Television and Radio Arts have been on strike since April, refusing TV and radio commercials due to a high-profile pay dispute. "She was completely unaware of the situation because she doesn't live in this country and she is extremely apologetic about it," Tracey Jacobs, Hurley's agent, told Reuters. "Had she known it was struck work, she would have never done it. She is very supportive of her union." The famed model-turned-actress, who's probably better known for her long romance
HOLLYWOOD, May 11, 2000 -- A former star of "The Golden Girls" has been struck down in the prime of old age. Septuagenarian Estelle Getty tells the May 16 edition of the Globe that she is battling Parkinson's disease. "I'm determined not to go under with this thing," Getty, 75, tells the supermarket tab. Getty says she began experiencing symptoms five years ago, but remains in good health. She's due to appear in the May 15 edition of the CBS sitcom "Ladies' Man," alongside her ex-"Golden Girls" comrades Betty White, 78, and Rue McClanahan, 65. On "The Golden Girls" (1985-92), Getty played the feisty old one. Er, make that, the feisty old one called Sophia.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 12, 2000 -- Apparently Catherine Zeta-Jones has more important things to do than spend time with Kevin Costner. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the actress has dropped out of Oliver Stone's epic love story "Beyond Borders," in which she was to co-star with Costner. Sources now have the lead role going to "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts. The shoot for Mandalay Pictures' "Beyond Borders" was to begin in May. No word from Zeta-Jones' camp on why she dropped out of the flick, although the actress is due to wed Michael Douglas -- reportedly on Sept. 25, the lovebirds' shared birthday. HE WRITES THE SONGS: Steve Martin may be headed back to the Barry Manilow era in Miramax's upcoming "Long Lost." Martin's attached to star and Griffin Dunne ("Addicted to Love") is set to direct, the Reporter says. "Pulp Fiction's" Lawrence Bender and L
Famed French mime Marcel Marceau, known for his strict reticence, is speaking out in support of awareness of the rights of the elderly.
Though Disney chairman Michael Eisner prevented Pearl Harbor from having a hefty, oversized, dinosaur-big budget, there's nothing to stop the World War II epic from breaking The Lost World: Jurassic Park's opening weekend box office record.
The Jurassic Park sequel holds the record for an opening weekend, earning $90.2 million upon its 1997 release.