Nearly a year after French censors ignited a firestorm of controversy by giving an X rating to the sex-and-violence-filled film Baise-Moi (Rape Me) -- effectively banning it from French movie houses -- French culture minister Catherine Tasca has...
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday approved News Corp's acquisition of 10 Chris-Craft stations after deciding not to immediately force the Rupert Murdoch-owned company to sell off some of its stations to comply with rules allowing a...
A senior scholar at Florida's Poynter Institute, a school for journalists that prominently focuses on ethical issues facing the news media, has criticized an Albuquerque TV station and state police for acting in cahoots to capture a murder suspect...
Tuesday night's debut of The Downer Channel definitely turned out to be a downer for its producers, comedian Steve Martin and former Late Night with David Letterman producer Robert Morton. The sketch comedy series delivered only a 4.4 rating...
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has denied reports that he is such a fan of NBC's The West Wing that he had asked to vist the set of the show and possibly would agree to make a cameo appearance. A spokeswoman for the prime minister told the...
Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Heather Mills announced Thursday that they are getting married, The Associated Press reports.
The ex-Beatle got down on one knee to propose to Mills and gave her a sapphire and diamond ring he bought while...
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres, who came out as a lesbian during the run of her Ellen show, to The Associated Press on her new half-hour CBS sitcom, The Ellen Show:
``What happened with the last show is it got to be too issue-oriented, and I take...
Singer Bonnie Raitt was among the 20 peaceful protesters arrested Wednesday by police in the Chicago suburb of Itasca, Reuters reports.
The Rainforest Action Network organized the sit-in to demonstrate against the logging practices of paper and...
After 35 years of hosting one of the most popular--and most profitable--charity telethons, Jerry Lewis finally has to slow down his master of ceremony duties for his annual Labor Day Telethon.
According to his manager Joe Stabile, Lewis is...
Ailing
Actress Katharine Hepburn will probably be released by the weekend, Reuters reports. The Academy Award-winning actress was hospitalized last week for a urinary tract infection but is responding well to treatment. Hepburn, 94, was going...
CBS President Les Moonves on Tuesday described the reality show Big Brother as a "summer experiment" and indicated that he is not particularly disappointed with either the critical reaction to it or the show's mediocre ratings. "I'm tired of...
The tiny Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands out the annual Golden Globe awards, has signed a 10 year deal giving NBC the right to air its awards ceremony for about $3 million dollars per year.
During the same week that ABC announced that it was cutting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from four shows per week to two, all four of the game show's weekly episodes landed in the Nielsen top ten -- including first, second and third positions...
