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What do a Space Walk, Madonna, Saran Wrap and a Hurricane have in common? They're all skateboarding tricks perfected by pros -- such as Tony Hawk and Allan Ollie Gelfand -- which are on display in the new movie Grind.

At 44, Candace Bushnell has proven it's never too late to be a blushing bride.

Peter Mullan's film about life in an Irish church-run laundry in the 1960s has come under fire from some Catholic groups. But he says that doesn't make the events depicted in The Magdalene Sisters, any less true.

The jury is out on whether Court TV's new Smoking Gun TV specials -- based on the popular Web site -- can bring younger, hipper viewers to a channel loaded with courtroom proceedings and crime shows.

This fall, self-proclaimed space porn electronic funk band Particle, known for improvisational instrumental-heavy sets that roll long into the late night -- or early morning, depending on your point of view -- will try something different: a studio album.

Hong Kong action movie The Medallion will test its strength at the U.S. box office this weekend against the might of horror grudge match Freddy vs. Jason and S.W.A.T. which topped takings last week.

Laine Chiszar said she slept on the floor two nights in a row waiting for the opportunity to sing in front of American Idol producers.

It is the biggest annual event for MTV. The Video Music Awards may only attract a quarter of the audience of the Grammy Awards, but as far as star attraction and buzz goes, it's really close to that other music awards show.

You can't call yourself a true music enthusiast unless you have a balanced musical diet. You have rock (the meat group), rap (plenty of bread), country (the dairy group -- farm fresh) and bluegrass (the fruit & veggie group, sown and grown in the hills).

Brittany Murphy can be syrupy-sweet one minute and catty the next. You just never know what's going to come out of this petite starlet's mouth.

Cliches have virtually buried the Hollywood Western, but Kevin Costner -- refusing to let the genre ride off into the sunset -- is gambling that moviegoers will like the realistic gunfighting, true-to-life love stories and flawed cowboy hero in his new film Open Range.

Catherine Hardwicke wants to make one thing clear: Thirteen is not meant to chronicle the lives of all 13-year-olds.

Two summers ago, a pair of enterprising employees at Sony Pictures invented a movie critic named David Manning.

The lone cast holdout on the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond will return to work on the series this week after CBS agreed to increase his salary, a network representative said Tuesday.

The entertainment world is overwhelmed with awards shows. There are the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys; the People's Choice Awards, American Music Awards and the Golden Globes; the ESPYs, Razzies and Doozies.

The thriller Phone Booth jumped out of the gate quickly, topping the weekend box office with a $15 million haul.

Motown messed up.

Ten months ago, American Idol winner Ruben Studdard was a white-collar guy.

Chuck Palahniuk's books are not exactly for the squeamish.

No one really wins in Freddy vs. Jason, the showdown between horror icons Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees -- except maybe the manufacturers of their trademark red-and-green striped sweater and hockey mask, which prove indestructible.

American Splendor is one of the most original films in years.

If, as Arthur C. Clarke famously observed, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, might not the reverse also be true? Is magic, at its core, a subtle and powerful form of non-material technology?

Who do the cops call when they need help? Apparently they dial up the Special Weapons and Tactics unit, better known as S.W.A.T.

Fresh off last year's platinum-selling The Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning, the Windy City music veterans have tapped their extensive catalogue with a box set, featuring five CDs and one DVD.

For some reason, whenever Kevin Costner is involved in either a Western or a baseball flick he seems much more at ease, more believable than in any other genre ... for example, say, science fiction (see Waterworld or The Postman).

It seems such a mundane story: a waitress at a crumbling resort hotel, scraping by on tips, trying to provide for a growing daughter while fending off an overbearing mother-in-law. The hard-working single mother is a staple, if not a cliché, of 20th-century American storytelling.

Author Jon Krakauer has a new book out. That's good news for fans of his earlier best sellers Into Thin Air and Into the Wild.

Barry Manilow may not be the name you expect to read in a review of jazz vocalist Diane Schuur's new CD, Midnight. But it's his music, co-production and, at one point, his voice driving this album. For the most part, that's OK -- when he doesn't push it.

The new film Thirteen offers a brilliant -- and uncompromising -- look at various issues involving teenage girls and the possible pitfalls of the rocky road through adolescence. First-time director Catherine Hardwicke has fashioned a provocative, hyperkinetic journey through the highs and lows of modern adolescence that is both harrowing and touching.

Discovering the Mad Capsule Markets is a bit like discovering a lost continent already far more advanced than the distant port from which you set sail.

The star of Dirty Pretty Things is starting to make a name for himself, even though most moviegoers may find it difficult to pronounce.

Rolling, says one of the assistants. Action! exclaims a director.

The summer movie season is traditionally when movie studios have some of their biggest financial successes. With that in mind, it's when the most expensive, most explosive and highly anticipated films are released.

Let Sports Illustrated have Vendela and Tyra Banks. Mental Floss will take Eleanor Roosevelt and Salvador Dali.

TV critics nationwide have praised the HBO series The Wire so highly, it begs the question: Why didn't this show receive an Emmy nomination?

Let's face it: Anything can be source material for a movie.

If the prospect of a group vacation fills you with fear, then this could be scene-setter for Friday the 13th part 2003: A group of couples head up to an isolated Virginia mountain cabin to spend a weekend vacation together.

It sounded like the ideal job for a college dropout-turned-pizza deliveryman in today's America: go on a reality TV show, live in a fancy house, spend time with good-looking women and vie for the chance to win a lot of money and national fame.