The most spiritually compelling moment of the Screen Actors Guild Awards came when the Guild paid tribute to those who'd lost their lives since the last gathering. Susan Sarandon shared a very nice tribute to the actors who've passed, and......

It’s always interesting to hear what stars have to say about their Oscar nominations. I mean, really, what are they going to say? Oh, that’s a bummer. Or Wow, that’s terrible news! But no, they always have a good reaction, probably planned ahead of time. Via Associated Press, here&...

For many disturbing reasons—personal, financial and global—I unequivocally declare 2008 one of the most miserably catastrophic years within memory. With a new government promising a new strategy of reform and change, I join the rest of the world in a new thing called hope. But before we dust off...

Most eighties comedies don't snare us like they used to. We can flip past Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Stand by Me and not lose our whole afternoon. But there are certain movies that still grab hold, every time, like Tootsie (HDNetM, Saturday, 2:15 p.m.). Tootsie is one of the great actors' showcases...

Now at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Bill Horberg has long considered his former boss at Mirage Entertainment, Sydney Pollack, to be his mentor. Here's his heartfelt tribute: Sydney Sydney Pollack was a teacher. How ironic that the character of the African dictator in the last film he directed, The I...

· From clingy dresses to canine masturbation, from mean-spirited reviews to disappointed Cosmo swillers doling out handjobs, we found ourselves oversexed in our city. · The same cannot be said for Clay Aiken — he's pregnant! · We were accused of being part of an "extraordi...

The GREAT director and actor Sydney Pollack has died. He had been fighting cancer for the last 6 - 7 months. Dick Martin of the revolutionary late 1960’s comedy Laugh In died. In the late 60’s this country seemed to be falling apart. There were several short lived comedy’s which re...

We've been reading all of the obituaries for Sydney Pollack, the director who died Monday at the age of 73. "Mr. Pollack’s career defined an era in which big stars (Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty) and the filmmakers who knew how to wrangle them (Barry Levinson, Mike Nichols) ...

Filed under: Obits, Harry Potter Joseph Pevney (1911-2008) - Director, Actor - Directed James Cagney as Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces, Boris Karloff in The Strange Door, Debbie Reynolds in Tammy and the Bachelor, Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny Wilson, Joan Crawford in Female on the Beach, Marti...

Over the weekend, I mentioned that I was struggling with trying to make one of my female characters believable.  No matter what situation I put her in, she seemed to always be taking off her blouse, rubbing against the male lead, and saying “Take me now, you hot-blooded schmuck.” When I...