LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2008 (Reuters) Canine comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was top dog at the North American box offices, digging up $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend in theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2008 (Reuters) Hollywood is always looking for fresh faces -- even if they belong to dogs -- and the tiny four-legged star of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has a rags-to-riches story to match any new arrival on silver screens. ... > full story
MIAMI, Oct. 3, 2008 (Reuters) Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves and his sister and lawyer were indicted on Thursday on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States of taxes on $5.55 million of income, prosecutors said. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2008 (Hollywood Reporter) "This is like the Greek Theater with goiter" Neil Diamond said Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl, referring to his performance 36 years ago that resulted in his hit album "Hot August Night." ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) James Earl Jones, whose booming voice gave the world the villainous Darth Vader in "Star Wars", will receive the 2008 life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Singer Natalie Cole is resting in bed at her Los Angeles home after being hospitalized in New York last month because of a setback in her battle with Hepatitis C, her spokeswoman said on Thursday. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Broadway theaters will dim their lights on Friday to honor the late Paul Newman, who first set foot on a Broadway stage in 1953. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Clint Eastwood spends more time behind the camera these days directing films. But anyone who believed him a few years ago when he said he had given up on acting, can think again. Clint has changed his mind. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Hollywood, long considered a bastion of liberal thinking, is being chided for not opening its wallet to save the right to same-sex marriage in California even as several A-list gays and lesbians rush to the altar. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2008 (Reuters) The actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his family said. ... > full story
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Broadway honoring Newman by dimming lights Oct. 2, 2008 (Newsday) Broadway will honor the life and career of Paul Newman by dimming theater marquees on Friday. . The Broadway League, the industry's trade ...
First Wives Club Gets A Second Life Online Sep. 29, 2008 (Brandweek) Breaking up is hard to do-just ask the 30 million women in the U.S. who are divorced or on the brink of it. That's the target audience of a budding ...
L.A. takes center stage for new musical theater Sep. 18, 2008 (Boston Globe) Better known as the home to Hollywood movies, Los Angeles is fast starting to beat to the sound of new musical stage productions that debut here ...
Finding a signular soul in the everyman Sep. 13, 2008 (Boston Globe) It could be easy to dismiss Patrick Wilson as another of Hollywood's pretty young things. The 35-year-old is your prototypical heartthrob with ...