Michael Russnow | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment
It's not quite out yet and when it is you'll have to pay two admissions to see the four and a half hour extravaganza of Che Guevara's revolutionary struggles, which I sat through last night with a preview audience.
Based...
Jonathan Handel | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment
Where do SAG contracts go when they expire? Who knows, but wherever it is, it's getting more crowded by the day. The Guild's got a lot of unfinished business, it turns out. Here's the tally of contracts that have expired or will do so...
Jonathan Handel | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
The SAG National Board is meeting next Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 12-13, and speculation is rampant over whether SAG will send out the postponed strike authorization ballot (as well as whether the negotiating team will be replaced). But what if, rather than send out the authorization...
E. Jean Carroll | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
The dingbats who write the newspaper horoscopes have once again ruined everything by publishing their nincompoop predictions for 2009. I ask you, dear Huffington Post readers, should old ladies who believe in astrology be allowed to forecast anything?
The ominously beautiful Dope Astrologers -- Jilly Gagnon, Adrianne Frost and...
Danny Groner | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
There's a common saying that dictates you shouldn't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. What this adage may account for is how uncomfortable that person's shoes can feel on your feet.
We've too often seen videos of comedians lashing out at crowds for berating them...
Giulia Rozzi | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
My mind is mush this morning. Why, you ask? Nope, it's not the lack of sleep and over indulgence of party-times from last week. It's that I forced myself to watch ABC's new reality show True Beauty last night.
Now I'm a smart gal right? So I should have...
Jeff Price | Posted January 6, 2009 | Media
In 1996, taped to the wall of my now defunct record label spinART Records' 800 square-foot, four-Ikea-desk-loaded-with-unsold-CD-and-vinyl office was a $1 check from MTV. I fought hard for that stupid check. MTV wanted to use a song called "Supermerica" by a band called Poole that I released. Usually TV shows...
Steve Pristin | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
President-elect Barack Obama was the key note speaker at the 2008 Wesleyan Commencement - passing on valuable advice...
...and blessing a new crop of Brooklyn bands! 2008 brought MGMT and Santogold to the pop culture limelight and 2009 has the chance to be an...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
"Afraid to tell your girlfriend her ass looks fat?"
"Need to let your neighbors know you're a registered sex offender?"
Questions like these haunt many of us --- but they obsess Amanda McCall and Ben Schwartz.
After long reflection, they came up with a way to deliver harsh messages to...
Mark Bazer | Posted January 6, 2009 | Chicago
I host a talk show in Chicago at the Hideout called "The Interview Show." Below is video from an interview I did with country musician Robbie Fulks, whose forthcoming release is "50-Voice Doberman." The video also includes a performance by Robbie.
Jann Karam | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
Daniel Sweren-Becker | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment
French orphans. Thai hookers. Billion dollar wills. Thank goodness those age-old High School problems are back to take up our time. Here's another minute-by-minute account for you fellow devotees.
8:01 -- Serena's vacation photos -- who took them, why is she dancing with all those old men, and how...
Tanya Schurr | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
What's in the works for inauguration parties? A celebration is long overdue.
For 8 years, the Bush White House shaped Crawford into their own story of the Western White House -- now the people of Crawford are telling their own story. After screening at over 30 film festivals around the...
Dennis Palumbo | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
Two iconic images, from two classic films: in Now, Voyager, kindly therapist Claude Rains walks in the garden with troubled patient Bette Davis. He's paternal, insightful and obviously knows what's good for her.
In The Three Faces of Eve, Lee J. Cobb helps Joanne Woodward parse out the three distinct...
Brad Balfour | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Jamie Parker, and Eddie Izzard, Thomas Kretschmann, Carice van Houten, Christian Berkel directed by Bryan Singer, co-written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander.
Both director Bryan Singer and star Tom Cruise have described Valkyrie as an adventure thriller....
Brad Balfour | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
While Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep garners attention for her role as the authoritarian nun in Doubt, another film -- the doc Theater of War out now -- offers insight into who Steep is as an actress, and it grapples with the nature of war as viewed through the life and...
Jon Chattman | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
I remember one-and-a-half hours into 2008's biggest hit and best film The Dark Knight, I had to go to the bathroom. After holding it for another 30 minutes, I pounded my fist on the stadium-seated armrest, and literally ran out of the IMAX screening. I wasn't alone.
Right behind...
Scott Mendelson | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
Now that I've seen pretty much every piece of end of the year Oscar-bait, I realize that I could have written this list over Thanksgiving and been pretty on the mark. Many of the awards bait films were good, but none of them were truly great. So, with...
Marshall Fine | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment
Ari Folman, looking both exhausted and still a little amazed, sits back in a hotel room chair and spreads his arms in a shrug.
"I think I would not be sitting here if this film had not been animated," he says of his animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, which just...
FINAL Update Wednesday 8:45 AM: Coulter appeared in the 7...
On "Fox News Sunday," former President George H. W. Bush said he's ready for another...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
Bill Richardson and Barack Obama have always seemed a...
Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War...
A Katrina relief worker has just outed himself as an FBI mole, and...
On "Fox News Sunday," former President George H. W. Bush defended his son's record....
Rock wife Sharon Osbourne lashed out at a "Rock of Love...
A flurry of high-profile Twitter accounts have...
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The New York Post reports that employees of disgraced billionaire...
A Perfect storm for innovation is gathering in Washington. With the government's...
The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Scott Mendelson | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment