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Although Toronto producer Robert Lantos handed Annette Bening the juiciest role of her career in Being Julia , once again she was trumped by Hilary Swank at the Academy Awards .

Sam Mendes has declared himself undeserving of the Directors Guild lifetime achievement award after being awarded it at the ripe old age of 39.

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The Hairspray Tony winner will star alongside blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson in the new Fox sitcom Stacked, set to premiere April 13 at 9PM on the network.

"Imaginary Heroes" is intended as a poignant, truthful account of an American family in crisis after a tragedy, an "Ordinary People" for a new age garnished with the sarcastic humor of an "American Beauty." For ...

Several of this year's Oscar nominees met up with each other Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual luncheon, an annual precursor to the big event.

Insert Chick Flick joke here. In 1939, a little movie named Love Affair was released.

Tara Reid (now stinking up theatres in Alone in the Dark) and Mena Suvari (last seen as a lesbian on Six Feet Under) conform so fully to the middle-aged screenwriter's fantasy of a juvenile temptress, you might ...

Ellen DeGeneres, Charlize Theron, Annette Bening and Morgan Freeman will be presenters at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, producers said Wednesday.

Accentuate the negative. Based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes, Ghost World stars Thora Birch ( American Beauty ) and Scarlett Johansson ( The Man Who Wasn t There ) as two recent high school graduates who ...

Former Mountain Home resident Wes Bentley is signed to star as the villain in the screen adaptation of Marvel Comics' "Ghost Rider." The movies features Nicholas Cage in the title role.

Ah, the 50s: poodle skirts, bobby socks and sweet-faced teen idols. Not that there aren t teenyboppers now, but the 50s seem different somehow, an era of youth, smooth, sugary voices and happy-go-lucky lives.

The following is a complete transcript of the chat with Daily Herald movie critic Dann Gire on Thursday, Dec.

A couple of rich kids (Ethan Randall, Dutch, and Thora Birch, American Beauty ) try to get their divorced parents to reconcile during the Christmas holiday season.

American iconoclastic director and two-time Oscar-nominee John Sayles (Lone Star, Passion Fish) takes aim at contemporary politics and corporate influence in Silver City , debuting on DVD and VHS (rental) ...

Coming-of-age stories don't necessarily have to be about teenage boys and girls.

Escaping a job or a life that doesn't fit us is a recurrent dream depicted in many movies (Keanu Reeves in the first "Matrix," Kevin Spacey in "American Beauty" or Edward Norton in "Fight Club"). But Pixar's ...

DEAR ELLIE: My husband, 57, suffers from erectile dysfunction. He's developed an attachment to my 17-year-old daughter's best friend.

Kevin Spacey, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson and Laura Linney have been added as 2005 Palm Springs International Film Festival honorees, making its Jan.

It's a story of fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the coming of age of three teens in Orange County.

Thora Birch will star opposite Harry Connick Jr. in Boomerang Deal, to be directed by Phillip Marzella from his own script, reports Production Weekly.

WEARING a jaunty cap and close-fitting jeans over her lean 110-pound frame, Elaine Corral Kendall looks like she just stepped out of a fashion magazine.

SEATTLE WEEKLY in the News Political Editor George Howland Jr. will take part in a "Weekday" discussion of the upcoming election on KUOW-FM (94.9) Monday, Oct.

Allison Janney winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress. Now in its fifth season, the sophisticated, one-hour drama series stars Emmy winner Martin Sheen ('Apocalypse Now'), Emmy winner John Spencer ('L.A. ...

Concert. The Sunset House of Blues will host Mason Jennings, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are both poetic and political.

What a coup for a new cosmetic brand to fish out this glittering coin of the realm and adopt it for a name.

THE NEW ABC drama "Desperate Housewives" is garnering a peculiar kind of criticism: dismissive raves.

Mena Suvari has a fine, full-lipped mouth, which was certainly one reason why Marc Evans, the director of the new psychological horror film Trauma, decided to show it painted throughout with shiny blood-red ...

Adapted for the screen by Richard Rueff from his own play Hospitality Suite, it is quickly evident that The Big Kahuna is more or less a straight stage to film conversion.

Actor Colin Firth made his first trip to the Scottish capital on Friday, for the UK premiere of his new film Trauma at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Stage stars Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Bates, James Cromwell, Justin Theroux and Rainn Wilson will join Broadway's upcoming After The Fall star Peter Krause for the new season of HBO's ...

Happy Trails to you! Remember that song? We are going on a summer of exploration in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Producer Lee Daniels, who's currently in Sundance supporting his Dramatic Competition entry The Woodsman , will soon be making his directorial debut on the indie gangster flick Shadowboxer , with Wes ...