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Co-stars share thoughts on ‘Speed Racer’

By David Germain - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/10/08 6:40 AM

LAS VEGAS — “Speed Racer” stars Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci are better known for smaller independent movies than summer blockbusters.

The Polanski case …

Updated: 05/10/08 6:40 AM

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It’s all Walters, all the time

Tribune Media Services
Updated: 05/10/08 6:40 AM

They could call it “Barbara Walters Week, Month or Year.” You can barely move in Manhattan for celebrating her book “Audition” and I don’t envy whoever had to pare down the invite list by Mayor Mike Bloomberg for his Tuesday pouring honoring Babs in his 79th Street abode. The names crowded in from Wendi and Rupert Murdoch to Lance Armstrong to Vernon Jordan. And the charming Whoopi Goldberg ran into the charming Frank Langella with whom she once consorted, so it was all fun and frisson. And if you weren’t invited, well, listen — it happened in a town house, not Yankee Stadium.

Jason Castro's 'Idol' run is done

Updated: 05/09/08 12:14 PM

NEW YORK-- Simon Cowell once told Jason Castro that his face would save him from elimination. Not this time.

Pergament: Walters gets a pass on her racy revelations

By Alan Pergament
Updated: 05/09/08 1:09 PM

It wasn’t that long ago that Miley Cyrus had her 15 minutes of fame with Barbara Walters in an Oscar night interview.

‘The Office’s’ Flannery finds a summer job

By Hanh Nguyen - ZAP2IT
Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM

Kate Flannery — unlike her alcoholic, accident-prone character Meredith Palmer on “The Office” — is happy, healthy and has something to look forward to in the next few weeks.

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Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM

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‘Horton’ voice actors reminisce

By Chris Lee - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Updated: 05/08/08 6:32 AM

HOLLYWOOD — The job seems like it should have been a cakewalk for three of America’s most gifted comedians: a couple of weeks in a recording booth voicing laughable yet lovable characters for a big-budget, computer-generated animation adaptation of the beloved children’s book “Horton Hears a Who!”

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Updated: 05/08/08 6:32 AM

Rowling wins …

‘Speed Racer’: A wild ride from the Wachowski brothers

By Jeff Simon
Updated: 05/08/08 12:03 PM

Leave it to the Wachowski brothers to remake the American children’s movie. Or at least try. “Speed Racer” isn’t much like any kids movie anyone’s ever seen. And, believe me, the world isn’t going to be eager to thank them for doing anything as radical as this. I personally had a fine time, but then maybe that’s nothing to be proud of.

Turning a blind eye to a brutal abuse case

By Alan Pergament
Updated: 05/08/08 6:57 AM

The star power of Ellen Page of “Juno” fame makes Showtime’s premiere of the disturbing independent film “An American Crime” a bigger deal than it otherwise might have been. The 21-year-old actress again plays a teenager in trouble, but there’s no levity associated with her problems this time.

Time to go for Castro

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/08/08 6:32 AM

NEW YORK — Simon Cowell once told Jason Castro that his face would save him from elimination. Not this time.

Alan Pergament: Why are ‘Idol’ ratings really slipping?

Alan Pergament
Updated: 05/07/08 9:13 AM

In her defense of Paula Abdul’s critique of a song that hadn’t been performed and the declining national ratings of “American Idol,” producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz said the slip is part of a “huge decline” this year in television in the aftermath of the writers’ strike.

Arquette gets into the spirit on ‘Medium’

By Frazier Moore - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/07/08 6:40 AM

NEW YORK — “Sweet dreams” is an alien notion to Allison DuBois.

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Updated: 05/07/08 6:40 AM

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‘American Idol’ Watch: Rock Hall of Fame, Shame

By Anne Neville
Updated: 05/07/08 9:11 AM

Show’s theme: Selections from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of 500 songs that shaped rock. In other words, “David Cook, here’s a free pass!” But no! He’s strangely lacking in energy on “Hungry Like the Wolf” and only slightly better on his second song, “Baba O’Reilly.”

To be or not to be in love in ‘Moonlight’

By Kate O’Hare - ZAP2IT
Updated: 05/06/08 6:36 AM

Australian actor Alex O’Loughlin, star of CBS’ Fridaynight vampire drama “Moonlight,” is sitting on the set on a March evening at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. — and he’s enjoying the view.

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Updated: 05/06/08 6:36 AM

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Motown legend Marvin Gaye brought down by his demons

By Alan Pergament - NEWS TV CRITIC
Updated: 05/06/08 6:50 AM

You certainly can understand from watching the American Masters film “Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On” why Jesse L. Martin wants to star in a film about the life and death of the troubled Motown star.

Scott Smith’s novel ‘The Ruins’ makes an impact on big screen

By Rene Rodriguez - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 05/05/08 6:37 AM

Scott Smith hadn’t even finished writing “The Ruins” — and Stephen King had not yet hailed it as “the best horror novel of the new century” — when Hollywood studios started clamoring for the rights to turn it into a film.

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Updated: 05/05/08 6:37 AM

Singing, not talking …

Jeff Simon: Miley teeters on the cusp of adulthood

Jeff Simon
Updated: 05/04/08 7:02 AM

The movie line at the Transit Road Regal Theater was huge. It was also full of more little girls and their mothers than I’ve seen in one place since I did chauffeur duty for my daughter when she was on the preteen birthday party circuit.

TV Mail Box / ‘Friday Night Lights’ makes a detour through DirecTV

By Jay Bobbin - ZAP2IT
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

Q: Is “Friday Night Lights” coming back to television, and if so, when? Also, I have seen the first season available for purchase on DVD; is any other season available? — Elaine Ball, Tonawanda

Writers bring new voices to two popular shows

By Jay Bobbin - ZAP2IT
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

If two of television’s top-rated series each feel like the other this week, it’s no coincidence.

Lily loses her baby on ‘Y&R’

By Toby Goldstein - TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

All My Children: Greenlee persuaded Zach not to send Aidan on a dangerous mission in Darfur, but when Aidan found out whom he is to rescue, he insisted on going right away, despite Greenlee’s fears. Angie was delighted when Cassandra, her daughter with Jacob, shared an instant rapport with Jesse. Meanwhile, Robert intently searched for the stuffed elephant. Strange things happened to Adam, who found Kate’s adoption papers that he had destroyed months earlier and then saw Dixie’s reflection in the mirror. Samuel stood up to the warden and got Erica out of solitary confinement, as she was warmly welcomed back to the general population. Coming: Aidan risks his life trying to free Jake.

Parents turn Miley moment into a teachable one

By Megan K. Scott - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

NEW YORK — Miley Cyrus’ struggle with her controversial photo in “Vanity Fair” presents a great opportunity for parents to discuss how seemingly innocuous photos posted to a blog or social networking site can be misinterpreted, experts say.

Monaghan drives her career in the right direction

By Paul Brownfield - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

NEW YORK — Three weeks after wrapping “Made of Honor,” in which she plays the well-scrubbed best friend-true love of the equally well-scrubbed Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan got behind a big rig (sans makeup, save some bronzing) for the low-budget, independent film “Trucker.”

'Iron Man' director Favreau finishes first

By Jeff Simon / ARTS EDITOR
Updated: 05/04/08 7:02 AM

The tale of Jon Favreau –or How a Nice Guy Finished First. That is, how a good guy actor who clearly relishes being an actor and who just as clearly loves other actors, came to direct in his fourth film “Iron Man,” the first mammoth box office “tentpole picture” of movie summer 2008.

‘Idol’ boss backs Abdul despite blunder

By Derrik J. Lang - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/03/08 6:41 AM

LOS ANGELES — For starters, Paula Abdul isn’t going anywhere.

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Updated: 05/03/08 6:41 AM

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