Streep presents Davis with Women in Film award
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. (AP) - They may have been Oscar rivals earlier this year, but there's nothing but love between Meryl Streep and Viola Davis.Streep, who ended Davis' awards run for "The Help" by...
View ArticleOscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck dead at 77
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Film producer Richard Zanuck, who won the best picture Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" and was involved in such blockbuster films as "Jaws" and "The Sting" after his father, Hollywood...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Gipper casting
Rip Torn, Richard Crenna and James Brolin are among the many actors who portrayed President Ronald Reagan in one Hollywood production or another. Now add Michael Douglas to the list. The veteran actor...
View ArticleDiane Lane takes the stage in Chicago play
CHICAGO (AP) - More than two decades after she last graced the stage in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane is returning to the theater in a Chicago production of...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: To freeload or not to freeload
Either by brilliant design or just dumb luck, it's all starting to come into crystal-clear focus. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was caught on a 4-month-old video admitting what almost every...
View Article'Emmanuelle' star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (AP) - At the time, Sylvia Kristel was worried about starring in the 1974 erotic movie "Emmanuelle," but consoled herself with the thought that few people would see her sexually...
View ArticleClint Eastwood's daughter named Miss Golden Globe
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (AP) - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has named its newest Miss Golden Globe.Francesca Eastwood was introduced as the 2013 honoree Thursday at Cecconi's restaurant in...
View ArticlePRUDEN: Taking aim at the easy target — guns
ANALYSIS/OPINION:"What we must have is a national debate about guns." So goes the media cliche of the moment. Everybody on the left is saying it, but nobody there means a word of it. All these wayward...
View ArticleWind-power subsidy spared cuts
Federal support for wind power will last for at least one more year under a little-noticed portion of the "fiscal cliff" deal reached earlier this week.It largely was overshadowed by the back-and-forth...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Piers Morgan can stay
"President Obama has officially decided I am NOT being deported."So tweets hoity-toity CNN host Piers Morgan, the centerpiece of a public White House petition calling for his deportation, British...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio: Actor calls for ivory trade ban in Thailand
BANGKOK (AP) — Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has called on the Thai government to ban all ivory trade in the country as part of a global campaign to tackle the illegal wildlife crimes.International...
View ArticleWHITFIELD: Why Obama gets a free pass on drones
The recent publication of a Department of Justice white paper has shed new light on the Obama administration's troubling drone program. The memo reveals that senior administration officials, not just...
View ArticleReview: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a week when North Korea posted a homemade video showing the U.S. Capitol building being destroyed by a missile, what more logical response could Hollywood offer than a macho...
View ArticleRobert Downey Jr. hits Beijing to promote Marvel's 'Iron Man 3'
BEIJING — Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. has traveled to Beijing to promote "Iron Man 3," which was filmed partly in China and features well-known Chinese actors.At a news conference Saturday,...
View ArticleHollywood embraces censorship in China while opposing it at home
Hollywood continues its collaboration with Chinese censors even as it pushes back against U.S. attempts to limit violent content in film and television in the aftermath of the mass killing in Newtown,...
View ArticleFeds: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime scheme that included illegal, high-stakes poker games for the rich and famous.Federal...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon: Actress 'deeply embarrassed' after arrest
ATLANTA (AP) — Reese Witherspoon is "deeply embarrassed" about what she said to police officers after she and her husband were arrested during a traffic stop in Atlanta.The Oscar-winning actress...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Dinner bashing
It's been all the rage this week to bash the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Multiple accounts now claim that the giddy juxtaposition of journalists, Hollywood celebrities and notorious...
View ArticleWhite House Correspondents’ Dinner 2013: 'Controlled demolition' with Conan,...
It's become oddly fashionable to bash the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the giddy juxtaposition of journalists, Hollywood celebrities and strategically-minded operatives that arrives...
View ArticleNow playing: Drunk and disorderly in Atlanta dash-cam video, starring Reese...
ATLANTA — A dash-cam video of Reese Witherspoon's recent disorderly-conduct arrest provides a rare glimpse of one of Hollywood's best-known actresses unfiltered as she, after "one too many" glasses of...
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