"Dancing With the Stars" returns tonight with two last-minute replacements in the lineup. Out of the running are singer Jewel and "Access Hollywood" host Nancy O'Dell, both sidelined with injuries. The first new addition — former pinup Holly Madison ("The Girls Next Door&q...

On the December 9, 2008, Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann charged that Bush administration members – whom he did not specify by name but presumably President Bush was meant to be included – deserve to be "in hell," as he cited a report that a post-war insurgency in Iraq using...

When Horton Foote died Wednesday at age 92, he was hard at work on the most ambitious project of his nearly seven-decade writing career. "The Orphans Home Cycle" — a collection of nine of Horton Foote's plays set in the fictional version of his hometown of Wharton, Texas — will premier...

Jimmy Fallon debuted late Monday night on NBC to mixed reviews, but he earned the network the best ratings in that timeslot for three years. Against CBS rival Craig Ferguson of "The Late Late Show" he was ahead by 35%. And versus the last half of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on ABC, this ...

Because Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton are co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company she has scaled back her film commitments to barely one a year. That makes the news that  Blanchett is about to sign up to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe's Robin Hood e...

Will Ferrell continues to set Broadway box-office records as former president George W. Bush in the satire "You're Welcome America." Last week the laffer — which opened to mixed reviews Feb. 5 — made serious money, raking in $871,127 and setting a new house record at the Cort Theatre. ...

Readers of this blog will know that I approve of the primary objective of this group of scholars and litigators, which is calling for the kind of judicial term limits that pretty much every other constitutional democracy has (and that the United States would probably have had if the initial unattrac...

Conventional wisdom unequivocally asserted that the only Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee to hold a candle to Waltz with Bashir was France’s The Class - but that even that movie was hardly as technically groundbreaking or thematically poignant as Israel’s nominee. Regardless, The...

  Dolly Parton has come to rescue Jessica Simpson, although we think it's a bit late for that now. Mike Myers and Paris Hilton won several insulting awards over the weekend. Ladies, don't despair: your best sex comes in your forties. Thanks to this kid, the porn thief has been captured....

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