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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

I haven't seen the movie yet, Jeremy says with panic in his voice.

It was almost 40 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

In these uncertain times, U.S. filmgoers might be looking to escape reality. As the movie studios gear up for the big summer season, they will be serving up plenty of fantasy heroes.

Lucinda Williams makes me swoon.

Joe Jackson has been a prickly New Wave punk. A jive-slinging bopper. A smooth-crooning standard-bearer.

In my last Buzz Factor column I posed the question Are you a 'Modern Nomad'? to readers, and myself, as well. After encountering Modern Nomad magazine on the newsstand, I found myself lacking. I was a mere Modern Nomad wannabe.

A good mystery is an act of literary legerdemain. The writer uses all the tricks of an illusionist, including misdirection, to keep the reader in the dark until the final, Aha! moment when all is revealed.

Director/screenwriter Christopher Guest has blown into theaters again with another all-improv-dialogue mockumentary, A Mighty Wind.

In Confidence, Ed Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, and Rachel Weisz use a complex scheme of offshore accounts, wire transfers, corporate loans, phony killings, fake blood and creative accounting to pull off a complicated scam. It's a smart and sassy dark comedy that will keep you laughing and guessing until the very end.

Ja-a-a-c-c-c-k's back! After his Oscar-nominated turn in About Schmidt, in which he dumped all his trademark little gimmicks, Jack Nicholson is back in true form, complete with his evil grin and furry eyebrows that jump around like demented caterpillars on speed.

Once upon a time (say, 1643) an eccentric Dutchman took it upon himself to protect the interests of a certain native tribe from the imperialist ambitions of European colonists. The settlers want land. The natives have no real perception of private property.

Okay, rock 'n roll trivia buffs -- in what band did Eric Clapton get his nickname, Slowhand?

In war memoirs, there is usually a recurring image or symbol that encapsulates the storyteller's otherwise ineffable experience of living through the insanity of war: smoke, fire, the stench of death or perhaps the stillness of a corpse-strewn field after the battle is over.

It came as no surprise to many television analysts that this week's men's NCAA basketball championship game had the lowest ratings in more than two decades.

With the war in Iraq dominating television news, some analysts predicted that reality TV -- as in unscripted shows -- would take a beating. But the genre has survived pretty much unscathed.

The calendar may say April, but in the entertainment business, the summer solstice is around the corner. It begins May 2, when the X-Men sequel hits movie theaters.

When Stephen Dubner was growing up, Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris was everything.

Actress Winona Ryder was back in court Monday, where a judge heard a progress report on her probation and told her to continue to do what you've been doing.

It's more than just a talent contest. The would-be pop stars competing on the Fox reality hit American Idol seem these days to be running into trouble over past personal scandals.

U.S.-born soul singer Edwin Starr -- best known for his anti-conflict song War -- has died at the age of 61, his manager Lilian Kyle said on Thursday.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and husband Michael Douglas are the parents of a new daughter, the couple's second child together.

Hollywood actor Russell Crowe will tie the knot with his Australian sweetheart Danielle Spencer at his remote Australian spread on Monday, his 39th birthday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair put aside his concerns about Iraq for a few minutes to star as an animated version of himself in an episode of cult TV cartoon The Simpsons, a Downing Street spokesman said on Saturday.

Casino mogul Donald Trump is taking a gamble on a new business -- reality television.

Sales of recorded music slumped worldwide last year due to Internet piracy, increased competition from other entertainment sectors and a decline in consumer spending, an industry group said Wednesday.

Charlton Heston, the film star who led the controversial National Rifle Association and became the nation's symbol of firearms rights, reprised his trademark gesture to say goodbye Saturday to what is arguably America's most powerful lobby.

Charlton Heston, the film star who led the controversial National Rifle Association and became the nation's symbol of firearms rights, reprised his trademark gesture to say goodbye Saturday to what is arguably America's most powerful lobby.

Cantonese pop star and actor Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, who starred in the hit film Farewell My Concubine, jumped to his death in Hong Kong on Tuesday, a police source said.

British film star Hugh Grant may be Prince Charming on the screen but he says he is secretly a cad and hates acting so much that he's ready to take some time off, meet a nice girl and settle down.

Jack Osbourne, the 17-year-old son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, is undergoing rehab for marijuana and alcohol use, the family's publicist said Tuesday.

Johnny Cash was released from a Nashville hospital this week after being treated for pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said.