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Eddie Money may be best known for hard-driving '80s hits such as Take Me Home Tonight, but if the rocker has his way, in the future he'll also be associated with baseball.

In the 1980s, Heather Thomas made crime-fighting sexy as Lee Majors's sassy stuntwoman sidekick on The Fall Guy.

Maurice Gibb died because he had an inherited condition that caused his small intestine to twist, which cut its access to the blood supply, the Miami-Dade County medical examiner said in an autopsy report released Thursday.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, presenter of the Golden Globes, has fewer than 100 members. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presenter of the Oscars, has several thousand.

L'Oréal wants every nominee to look like a winner.

Heather Graham swears she didn't want to play an adult film actress again. The opportunity simply presented itself.

Despite predictions that the damned would be toasting S'mores in hell before the cast of ''Friends'' signed on for a 10th season, the superrich sextet recently signed on the dotted line, sending couch potatoes and NBC executives alike into paroxysms of glee.

Call their livelihoods a sort of guerrilla campaign set to a rock and mariachi beat.

What inspired Julia Stiles to trade her nearly waist-length tresses for shorter wavy layers in her latest film, A Guy Thing?

Al Hirschfeld, longtime theater caricaturist for The New York Times, has died.

In The Guru, Lexi (Marisa Tomei) is a new age therapy-crazed New York City socialite. She's on a major search path and is constantly latching onto the next trend -- whatever it is, says costume designer Michael Clancy.

Neopia: It's a whole world in there!

If fashion serves as any forecast, the months ahead are sure to be brighter.

Louis Menand wanted to like Al Gore. He wanted to get underneath the then-vice president's surface, to engage him in conversation, to get him to shut off the tape recorder in his mind.

OK, everybody, take a deep breath.

Biker Boyz, a motorcycle drag-race saga set in Southern California, is a blatant re-spin of The Fast and the Furious that also happens to be a far better movie.

The Bourne Identity, based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 best-seller, is a throwback thriller in more ways than one.

Divinity is nowhere in sight in City of God, a jauntily brutal documentary-style drama by Brazilian TV and commercial director Fernando Meirelles.

The premise -- in the mid-1700s, a young New Yorker receives the gift of immortality on the condition that he never leave Manhattan -- could go in one of two obvious directions. In a roaring satire, the hero would bitterly record the city's follies, his eternal misery leavened only by the bargain of his rent-controlled apartment.

The adage that no man is a hero to his valet gets put to the test in the fascinating bare-bones documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary.

The great 1838 Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby is such a thick Christmas pudding of a tale that the Royal Shakespeare Company lavished more than eight hours on its famous 1980s stage adaptation.

Many authors write difficult novels, but Richard Powers' are exacting. His books are beautiful headache machines crammed with dense disquisitions on, say, virtual reality or the genetic code or the history of soap.

It seems simple enough: a guy gets beaten to the brink of death in his own apartment. How hard could it be to track down the perpetrator? That's what Detective Nerese Ammons is thinking when she takes on the case.

Bright dialogue and finely embroidered performances adorn ''The Guru'' like festive beading on a pair of made-in-India bedroom slippers -- unexpected and inordinately cheering in the drab dead of winter.

Martin Scorsese's cynical take on the nature of celebrity remains shockingly topical and hilariously squirm-inducing nearly 20 years after its initial theatrical release.

For the most part, The Recruit is a taut drama involving CIA recruit-in-training James Clayton (Colin Farrell) and his recruiter, Walter Burke (Al Pacino). But it eventually trips over its own plot twists and can't quite shake its predictability.

After Bridget Jones click-clacked through town, any woman who wrote about being young and alone in an urban center was lumped into the derisively dubbed Chick Lit genre.

Spike Lee's new film 25th Hour may be most notable for being the first major film to deal with New York City post-September 11. The plot has nothing to do with the terrorist attack or its aftermath, but the film matter-of-factly incorporates this hideous event into the city's historical fabric.

It's really tricky to write a Big Counterculture Novel without lapsing into late-'60s cant or neocon ridicule.

French house duo Cassius stack their compositions with sounds you don't typically hear on the dance floor -- gospel harmonies, a ringing phone, an exuberant Ghostface Killah rap.

Final testaments don't get much more satisfying than this 2001 Honolulu gig that ended up being the 73-year-old ''girl singer's'' swan song. (It was surreptitious and serendipitous; Clooney, whose last live album was in '56, was unaware the tape was rolling.)

When we last saw and heard from Billy Corgan, during the death throes of the Smashing Pumpkins in 2000, he barely resembled the scraggly-haired kid of the band's early days. With his shaved head and Goth wardrobe, Corgan looked more like a guitar-playing cadaver.

If you were an immortal, accursed creation of the misguided passions of gods and men, where would you be today?

In her revolutionary 1925 novel ''Mrs. Dalloway,'' Virginia Woolf compacted a middle-aged woman's whole life -- her whole English world, really -- into one fresh, calm, still June day when Clarissa Dalloway prepares to give a party. (On another day, in 1941, Woolf would put a heavy stone in her pocket, walk into the River Ouse, and drown herself.)

Lou Pearlman has made millions of dollars creating and managing some of the top names in the music business: 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and O-Town, among others.

In honor of the elite Louis Vuitton Cup sailing competition, the fashion power house has created a line of special-edition bags, shoes and accessories.

You can take the Big Man out of the shore, but you can't take the shore out of the Big Man.

The event: The 29th annual People's Choice Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

Every year the Sundance Film Festival names one performer to receive the Sundance Institute Tribute to Independent Vision. This year's honoree is Academy Award winner Holly Hunter.

Last summer's hit XXX introduced a new spy action hero, Xander Cage, an extreme sports athlete recruited by the government for top-secret missions. The movie catapulted star Vin Diesel to new heights (in more ways than one) and was successful enough to spawn a sequel, currently titled XXX2 (Triple-X squared).

Every generation gets its world-controlling cabal.

Antwone Fisher doesn't want the film that bears his name to be misunderstood.

They were the unsung heroes of the Golden Age of Movies, the forgotten men and women who took anthropomorphic mice, ducks and cats and turned them into living beings. They'd labor at factory-like studios, drawing, inking, and painting the tens of thousands of cels it took to make these characters move.

2002 was the year that the celebrity mea culpa became an art form.

Are the Golden Globes an accurate predictor of the Academy Awards?

So, will Oscar be going to Chicago? Will the many hours of the Academy Awards show be devoted to The Hours?

Don Hewitt, the creator and executive producer of CBS' 60 Minutes, has reached an agreement to stay on the job for another year and a half, after which he will step aside from his position to take another post at the network, CBS said Monday.

Back for a second season as the cattiest of talent judges on American Idol, British pop producer Simon Cowell, 43, took a moment out of his busy schedule terrifying contestants to oblige PEOPLE with snap judgments on matters major and trivial. He even has some advice for Ben Affleck and Michael Jackson -- which you'll read only on PEOPLE.com.

The event: The Hollywood premiere and after-party of Just Married, starring petite Hollywood It girl Brittany Murphy and her all-too-adorable main squeeze and That '70s Show star, Ashton Kutcher.

Actor Richard Crenna, who played TV detective Frank Janek and whose credits include the TV series The Real McCoys and the Rambo film trilogy, has died at 76, his daughter confirmed Saturday.