Entertainment

As we all know, Friends is coming to an end this season after 10 years of being there for us.

A lesson in how not to run a network:

For the first time, ABC will impose a video and audio delay on the annual Oscar telecast, allowing a network censor to bleep any objectionable content, a network official said Wednesday.

I've already touched on the subject of graffiti in this space as well as rare graffiti-painting robots most people probably don't see in action in their towns. So I thought I'd spill some ink on street art to explore this very moment, wherever you happen to be.

Young R&B singer Beyonce Knowles and veteran soul crooner Luther Vandross led the 46th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, and OutKast won three Grammys -- including album of the year -- for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.

The opening of Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion of the Christ brought movie fans and religious leaders to more than 2,500 theaters across the nation on Ash Wednesday.

A few years ago, Ngila Dickson's main claim to fame stateside was designing costumes for the cult TV series, Xena: Warrior Princess. But today, she has the inside track on Hollywood immortality, with two Oscar nominations in a single category.

Expect to hear a lot about Peter Jackson -- if you haven't already.

Expect to hear a lot about Peter Jackson -- if you haven't already.

Their work finds the Beatles at the beginning and the end.

The 46th annual Grammy Awards find themselves caught in a culture war.

The 46th annual Grammy Awards find themselves caught in a culture war.

Film can be a powerful medium -- but sometimes its power is overwhelmed by hype.

Peter Smith tried everything. He played catch. He read books. He tried music.

It was 40 years ago today.

Did you hear the one about the guy who walks into a bar and ...

Remember the comedy Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray is forced to relive the same day time and time again? Well, 50 First Dates has the exact same premise with one big difference: It's not funny.

If Barbershop was Ice Cube's It's a Wonderful Life, the sequel is his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Nobody puts Baby in the corner in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. For that, you can be thankful.

Punishment and penance usually follow confession. The people behind Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen need to schedule a long day of atonement for the mess they've wrought with this girl-power comedy.

The new feature film Welcome to Mooseport is just too cute for its own good.

Picture Meg Ryan strutting around in Julia Roberts' Erin Brockovich hand-me-downs and you'll have a good idea of what Against the Ropes is like.

Twisted had the potential to be more than just another crime thriller starring Ashley Judd, which has become a genre all its own following Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy and High Crimes.

For months, TV pundits, writers of magazine articles and newspaper editorials, and religious leaders from Jewish and Christian organizations have been battling it out over the content of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's reportedly $30 million film that he co-produced, co-wrote (with Benedict Fitzgerald), directed and totally financed.

The new Disney movie Miracle may blatantly manipulate your emotions -- but it's still inspirational and completely compelling.

Forget little fold-up pamphlets on the compatibility of sun signs, forget lucky numbers on motel paper placemats, forget that weather-beaten little paperback on sexual astrology your college roommate's girlfriend left in the bathroom.

The thriller genre attracts writers with a wide range of literary sensibilities, from the cerebral John le Carré to the plot masters like Robert Ludlum to the pyrotechnical Tom Clancy. Perhaps its breadth is what occasionally draws in authors of a deeply literate bent.

You kind of expect the legendary Roger Corman, the King of the B's, to resemble Morty Fineman, the low-budget sleazeball filmmaker portrayed by Jerry Stiller in the 2000 movie The Independent.

This weekend gives you a choice between a feature film starring Adam Sandler and a TV movie about Scott Peterson.

Most fans have their favorite Buffyisms, and Buffy quote pages are legion on the Web.

A professional snowboarder was injured Thursday after falling 25 feet while performing a stunt outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan where the Late Show with David Letterman is taped.

The snowboarder who was injured while performing a stunt for the Late Show with David Letterman was released from the hospital Friday -- which Letterman called a happy ending to an otherwise harrowing ordeal.

It's the vacation spot of choice for everyone from Oscar winner Jack Nicholson and model Claudia Schiffer to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Latin singer Luis Miguel.

At one time not so long ago, Joe Eszterhas was the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood -- and the most controversial. The former Rolling Stone magazine writer -- part of that periodical's early-'70s writers' Golden Age -- wrote Music Box, Basic Instinct and Showgirls.

Norah Jones, watch your back.

Meg Ryan -- sweet, wholesome, Sleepless in Seattle Meg Ryan -- was not a boxing fan. But when she was offered the role of boxing manager Jackie Kallen in Against the Ropes, she knew she wanted it.

Valentine's Day is coming up fast and you haven't a clue what to get. Fortunately, some celebrities offer helpful hints.

The movie marketplace is more crowded than ever, and films are vying for our consumer dollars as aggressively as old-school car salesmen.

It was all in the future then.

Love him or hate him, Harvey Weinstein is bigger than life.

This year, for some reason, conventional wisdom has settled early on several favorites for the 76th annual Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday.

Movie-goers have not forgotten 50 First Dates.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore spread the love at the North American box office as their romantic comedy 50 First Dates opened at No. 1 during a weekend marked by both Valentine's Day and the Presidents Day holiday, according to studio estimates issued Sunday.

Clint Eastwood, Omar Sharif and director Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions were among the winners Saturday at the annual French film awards.

Movie-goers are feeling good about hair and hockey.

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings Fa la sol la sol.

Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, in a memoir about his career at the newspaper, admits making up stories and describes his extensive substance abuse, saying some of his best work was inspired by drug-fueled writing.

The Fairly OddParents is the second-highest rated program in America for viewers 2 to 11 years old.

Tanks filled with tarantulas and swarming rats on Fear Factor were a winning formula for NBC, which had its best ratings week of the year in the demographic it cares about.