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I actually felt sorry for Vaughn last night. He had all of four seconds of screen time in which he did nothing but whine about not being able to help Sydney and then -- whoosh! -- as soon as Noah Hicks (Peter Berg) danced onto the scene, Vaughn became... oh yeah, right, he's some CIA guy, whatever... And speaking of that dance, could there have been a more perfect way to introduce Syd's trainee-er...

Yeah, baby -- Hollywood's International Man of Mystery will be able to keep his shagadelic film title.

In Sunday's episode, Emily Previn's death was the single person's worst nightmare.

It's not TV. It's HBO.'' The cable channel's credo suggests that it offers what the broadcast nets do not: shows that are savvier, smarter, and sexier. Well, judging by Sunday's episode, HBO subscribers are getting their money shot's worth.

Sure, it's unfortunate that the hog-riding Santa (Jesse Ray Johnson, 1944-2001) got mowed down mid-Ho by an oncoming truck (including comical flourish with rolling helmet and stunned children), but his loss was our gain. This Christmas episode with the dysfunctional Fisher family (airing in April, naturally) was a welcome gift that included new flashbacks to each character's last memory of their d...

In this episode's opener, death seems certain for a precariously perched construction worker. But in a signature ''Six Feet Under'' twist, the workman knocks over his lunch box instead, the metal pail plunging several stories and killing unsuspecting pedestrian Dwight Edgar Harrison (1945-2002). The lesson here? You just never know who or what is going to drop next.

I love ''The Bachelor,'' though maybe not for the same reasons 10 million other viewers have fallen in love with ABC's reality show.

Jim Bellows' career in journalism spanned six decades and took him to newspapers, magazines, television and the Internet. His wry and insightful comments can be found in his new book, The Last Editor, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

The event: The New York premiere of the sexy girl-powered comedy The Sweetest Thing, featuring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair as three gutsy gal pals out for a good time.

Think the jewelry the stars wear is completely out of your reach? Think again.

You are surrounded by media.

A struggling, homeless artist, Jackie (Amanda Peet), sees herself as the black sheep of her family -- especially when compared with her sister Claire (Ashley Judd), a beautiful, high-powered attorney in the Twentieth Century Fox release High Crimes. But when Claire's seemingly perfect life is shattered when her husband (Jim Caviezel), a military operative, is arrested, Jackie lends more than just...

The day after the opening, one of my daughters got the flu and threw up on the train all the way home. My normal life as a writer is not any different.

Beauty begins deep below the surface... of the sea, that is.

Want to cast a fashion spell? Then join celebrities like Debra Messing and Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in weaving a web of black lace.

There's something about Cameron. Her smile is amazing, says makeup artist Robin Fredriksz. Her lips are a really deep color.

Nostalgia is the key word this spring -- with signature looks like wedge heels, ankle wrap sandals and lots of straw making a big comeback. Think South Beach (or Havana) circa 1950. And don't forget the charm bracelet, because that other '50s must-have accessory will also be making some noise this season.

Run-run-run-run-run. That was Dennis Quaid during his United States tour to promote baseball's Cinderella story, The Rookie.

On Sunday night, after 74 years, the Academy Awards finally caught up to the achievements of African-Americans. An honorary Oscar for Sidney Poitier, Best Actor to Denzel Washington, Best Actress to Halle Berry -- what a night. On Monday morning, the commentary rolled in.

When director Adrian Lyne kicks off his commentary with I have the worst memory, you might be tempted to panic.

Fatboy Slim has to be the first person on earth to turn a beach party into an album.

With a headline tour under way, a Grammy gracing her piano and a hit debut album tucked under her belt, singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado is taking the world by storm.

Bryant Gumbel said Thursday he is leaving CBS, where he has been anchor of The Early Show for two and a half years.

The event: Celebrating her status as Hollywood's quadruple threat, Jennifer Lopez -- actor, singer, clothing designer and now restaurateur -- officially opened Madre's, a restaurant serving up Cuban and Puerto Rican fare in the heart of Pasadena, California.

In the thriller Spider-Man (hitting theaters on May 3), actress Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) arrives in New York, eager to make it to the top. But dangling from the Queensboro Bridge, clad only in pink Cosabella PJs, wasn't exactly what she had in mind. Luckily, buff Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) swoops in for the rescue.

During their childhoods, most people are instructed in the ways of the birds and the bees. However, most people aren't taught other important lessons about life and love: How do you deal with a bad kisser? How do you have sex in a small space? And, perhaps most important, how do you determine if your date is an axe murderer?

Even the tiniest burst of color can help whisk away daily office doldrums.

The event: The two-year anniversary gala for Oxygen Media, a women's Internet and cable network, celebrated at Manhattan's Exit nightclub.

A few months ago, Ozzy Osbourne -- if not exactly forgotten -- was more or less an elder statesman of heavy metal. He'd become a decent concert draw whose name and music brought back memories of a 1970s and '80s headbanging heyday heavy with Dokken, Iron Maiden and his own band, Black Sabbath, as well as his solo work.

He writes about nothing much, rock critic Nik Cohn once wrote, streets and houses and pubs, days at the seaside, little bits of love, drabness and things that don't change, stuff like that.

In the early 1970s, in just 18 months, Peter Bogdanovich had three hit movies: The Last Picture Show (1971), What's Up Doc? (1972), and Paper Moon (1973).

Humorist Dave Barry specializes in the comedy of calamitous inevitability: His books and syndicated columns exult in comfortable exasperation with the everyday inanity that trips up ordinary people -- car problems, kid troubles, junk-mail woes -- heated to a temperature of outsize spluttering by the grilling sun of his hometown Miami.

The new film Big Trouble is an ensemble comedy, just like Get Shorty (1995). It stars Rene Russo and Dennis Farina, just like Get Shorty. It features a rogue's gallery of characters whose lives become hopelessly intertwined while caught up in a criminal scam, just like Get Shorty.

Director Peter Bogdanovich has long been fascinated with Hollywood history. He's written numerous books about the subject, including a biography about his friend and mentor Orson Welles.

Naturally, it's Good Friday when drunk-on-life attorney Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) tangles in a Manhattan fender bender with recovering alcoholic drone Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson).

Changing Lanes stars Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson as two men whose lives cross one Good Friday in New York. In a perfectly pitched introduction, we get a glimpse into the worlds of both men and witness their flaws and their strengths -- which shows how much the two have to lose if their fragile worlds are challenged and then thrown into chaos.

They are hunters on the trail of a fiendishly elusive prey. They have never seen it and only the most tediously careful observations can pick up its tracks. They're astronomers and they're looking for planets around other suns.

High Crimes, an often pedestrian courtroom drama reteaming Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, is like a symphony played on cell phones. All the parts are there, but the chintzy result seems like a conglomeration of strategic button-pushing.

Understand that only about 60 percent of it works, if that much, but Human Nature -- a new slice of smart-alecky madness from Charlie Kaufman, the author of Being John Malkovich -- is a curiously entertaining misfire.

Any adult who gets enough fresh air knows that image is not reality. Oprah Winfrey is possibly as charming a lady at the supermarket as she is on the air chatting with Dr. Phil. But most public figures -- particularly those who, like Hillary, Madonna, and Britney, are famous enough for first-name-only recognition -- are, dollars to doughnuts, not nearly as together, daring, or pure as they look un...

You know the dream: Everything looks more or less the same -- but more or less the same as what? The dialogue is stilted and poorly dubbed -- no one's voice sounds at home in their own mouth, least of all yours. And who are you, anyway? Are you even the star of your own movie? Or just a bit player on a bad TV show?

Reading Poker Nation is the next best thing to actually playing. Writer and poker player Andy Bellin has dealt readers a winning hand, offering strategy and an insider's view of professional players.

Though it's superbly photographed, D.J. Caruso's The Salton Sea is yet another calculated wallow in scum, drugs, and bullets that makes Quentin Tarantino-weened audience members feel like they're in the presence of Greatness.

Mystery, adventure, romance, dangerous secrets and exotic locales -- all the ingredients for the literary equivalent of fast food, quickly digested and just as quickly forgotten. It is to the everlasting credit of Ronald Wright that he has concocted from the same raw material a richly imagined story that lingers on the mind's taste buds like a gourmet feast.

Ann Packer knows how to hook a reader. Four pages into her first novel, a 23-year-old boy dives into shallow water, crushing his neck and spine. He wakes up four weeks later a quadriplegic. Before the accident, his fiance had already been second-guessing her fixed Midwestern future. With his helplessness assured and her flight instincts charged, ''The Dive From Clausen's Pier'' hinges on one rich ...

Hip and modernist as they are, the Coen brothers have always seemed like a throwback to an earlier Hollywood era. More than half their films -- including last year's ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' -- have been 20th-century period pieces, and film noir has been an influence on their work ever since their dazzling 1984 debut, ''Blood Simple.''