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Few films in the past 25 years have been as endlessly analyzed and debated as Francis Ford Coppola's audacious Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now. The general consensus that it's a flawed visionary experience hasn't changed much over the years, so Coppola now brings us Apocalypse Now Redux, a new version that's been slightly re-edited and includes an additional 45 minutes of never-before-seen foota...

Big screen or magazine page, celebrity fashion is big business. One mention of a designer's name on the lips of a stylishly clad actress and -- (ITAL)zip(CLOSE ITAL) -- another career in the open.

Disney's latest comedy, Bubble Boy, is generating more than laughs.

This is a story about Jeff Probst, a wallet, and James Earl Jones.

At their best, record labels can conjure a sound as surely as a needle on a phonograph. Chess Records and late '50s gutbucket blues. The Motown Sound of 1960s vocal groups. Stiff Records and the late '70s British New Wave.

Andy Rosenzweig was a good cop. In three decades as one of New York's Finest, the last few years as chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, he'd almost always gotten his man. He was clean -- not the easiest thing where he came up, in a rough precinct riddled with guys on the take -- and he was thorough.

Beginning in the early 1940s, a small photography agency called Globe Photos relocated from Germany to New York City, fleeing a war on one continent and embracing opportunity in another.

Jorge Amado, Brazil's best-selling author, died Monday, family members said. He would have reached his 89th birthday Wednesday.

Forget about the hit single and latest album and the acclaim that comes with all that. Cake prefers remaining decidedly low-fi and low-key.

Mariah Carey spends two weeks in the hospital for extreme exhaustion. Ben Affleck and the Backstreet Boys' A.J. McLean go into rehab for alcoholism treatment. Rosie O'Donnell says she's suffering from depression; McLean says he is, too. And other celebrities, from Robert Downey Jr. to West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, admit to -- and struggle with -- substance abuse.

Chris Tucker remembers where he was when he heard he'd be banking a Hollywood-elite $20 million for his role in Rush Hour 2. The irony is, it went right over his head.

The Lady of Soul Awards' celebration of the musical achievements of women took on a more poignant tone with the death of R&B star Aaliyah.

John Madden bucked Hollywood standards.

The creepy tones of Dr. Hannibal Lecter can be heard this weekend on a video player near you, as one of the biggest box office hits of 2001 arrives at video stores.

This week's new DVD releases offer David Spade as a backwoods loser in search of his long-lost parents, Michael Caine as a cross-dressing maniac and Dustin Hoffman as a workaholic father forced to care for his son. The Pat Metheny Group provides some nice jazz, and Abbott & Costello search for their mummy.

Even for a guy like Garry Marshall, the legendary television and film writer-producer-director, it's a risky proposition.

Never put it past Hollywood to jump on the hot-button issue of the moment.

It was one of the great romantic movies of all time.

In an effort to stand out from those other young, blonde popstars -- you know, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson -- Mandy Moore is trying something a little bit different.

As guests arrived for the glittering London premiere of Planet of the Apes in London on Tuesday, few realised they were by no means the first in Europe to see the hit film.

Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the upcoming TNT production James Dean, remembers well the days when he used to hang out with Dean in New York.

Based on an actual Greek tragedy of epic proportions, which inspired a novel by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin has finally been adapted to the big screen, with largely positive results.

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World follows the slowly developing escapades of Enid (Thora Birch), a gloomy 18-year-old who can't graduate from high school until she attends summer art classes. It's a colossal understatement to say that Enid is unhappy with her life. She's unhappy with everyone's life. Anyone who's ever been a teen-ager will find something to laugh at in this off-kilter little film.

If you think setting William Shakespeare's Othello in the world of high school basketball is a ridiculous idea, you may be slightly surprised by O.

Thousands of underage kids undoubtedly badgered their parents to take them -- or snuck into -- There's Something About Mary (1998), rated R, and Dumb and Dumber (1994), rated PG-13, helping to make those lowbrow films into highly profitable hits. Now, with Osmosis Jones, devious adolescents, starving for toilet humor, have a Peter and Bobby Farrelly movie with a tame (for them) rating of PG....

The high-profile marital union between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman is kaput, but the couple had one more joint project to launch before going their separate ways. The new gothic thriller The Others is produced by Cruise's company and was written and directed by Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar, making his first English-language film.

Jackie Chan's movies are the cinematic version of M&Ms: They melt on the screen and not in your mind, leaving you with a pleasant rush afterwards. The movies aren't about much -- simply an endless variety of pratfalls, double-takes, and slapstick -- and they rarely make much sense, but they do move like a speeding train, leaving you free to put your mind into neutral.

Ring of Truth By Nancy Pickard Pocket Books Fiction/Mystery 264 pages

America, your prayers have been answered. American Pie 2 features the same actors as American Pie, contains the same infantile sex jokes, and operates on the same guiding principle: namely, to make as much money as possible without even approaching competence or originality.

P is for Peril By Sue Grafton Putnam Fiction 352 pages

Woody Allen has been quoted as saying that his script for The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a rather distressingly routine film noir pastiche, originated as just a funny premise, and the rest is whatever spun out of that.

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There might have been a time when a Rolling Stones tour included nothing more than playing concerts and partying hard.

Charles R. Cross' hard work paid off.

Crunches are yesterday's news. Step workouts have hit the floor. And weightlifting has become a heavy load.

The UK's foot-and-mouth outbreak has inspired an all-swine version of the hugely popular Big Brother TV shows to raise case for stricken farmers.

Just when they said he was beginning to lack bite, Hannibal Lecter has confounded the bad-mouths.

He has been a fixture on television sets since 1967. Clad in a cardigan, a perpetual smile on his face, Mr. Rogers has invited untold numbers of children (and their parents) into his neighborhood.

Best-selling author Peter Maas died Thursday at a Manhattan hospital, a spokeswoman said.

Fans across the United States continued to mourn singer Aaliyah's death in a plane crash Saturday. Aaliyah's uncle and CEO of Blackground Records, Barry Hankerson, took some time to speak with CNN anchor Leon Harris Tuesday morning about his reaction.

As a four-person team from the United States heads to the Bahamas on Monday to investigate the wreckage of a Saturday plane crash that killed Aaliyah, fans and colleagues are mourning the loss of the singer-actress, whose star was on a steady rise.

A funeral for pop singer Aaliyah was held Friday morning at Manhattan's St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church.

Hollywood actors overwhelmingly approved an agreement on a new three-year contract that provides pay increases in several key areas.

Alan Hunter was one of MTV's five original VJs, along with Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Mark Goodman and Nina Blackwood. He talked with CNN's Colleen McEdwards about the early days of the network. MTV celebrated its 20th anniversary August 1.

Historian Stephen Ambrose has made a bestselling career of writing about some of the United States' bravest historical figures, including Lewis and Clark (Undaunted Courage) and the builders of the transcontinental railroad (Nothing Like It in the World). But he's perhaps become best known for his works about the veterans of World War II, including Citizen Soldiers and Band of Brothers, the latter...

Part of screen legend Marilyn Monroe's mystique is her personification of the American dream.

She's as focused and caught up in the music as you might imagine Mozart or Vivaldi to have been.

The Backstreet Boys will be taking a little longer to get back on the road.

Actor-writer Ben Affleck has entered a treatment facility to undergo alcohol rehabilitation, his publicist said.

Comedian Bob Hope is responding well to treatment for pneumonia and could be released from the hospital in a few days, his doctor said Wednesday.