Australian rockers INXS say they are excited and honoured to have the job of warming up the crowd at this year's AFL grand final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO and writer of its 1999 hit Summer Girls, died on Wednesday after a battle with leukaemia, celebrity website TMZ.com reports. He was 35.
The story of Ronald Reagan's life - from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world - is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries that caused such a stir several years ago.
A long-lost silent movie by legendary US filmmaker John Ford has had its first screening in more than eight decades after being unearthed in New Zealand.
Veteran British actor Michael Caine is finalising a deal to join the cast of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the sequel to New Line's 3D remake of the sci-fi classic Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.
They're often dismissed as lookalikes or wannabes, but Henry Wagons takes a look at the tribute act and discovers there is a real art to impersonation: ABC1, 5.30pm Sunday.
Actor Liam Neeson will star in Universal Pictures' upcoming sci-fi war film Battleship, joining a cast including Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, model Brooklyn Decker, and pop star Rihanna.
Actor Don Johnson has more than doubled his legal judgment against producers of the television show Nash Bridges after a judge added $US28 million ($30.5 million) in interest to the sum originally awarded him by a jury.
A former bodyguard for Britney Spears has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him.
Michael Dennison, who designed costumes for such films as Eat Pray Love, The Book Of Eli and The Spirit, died on September 2 from a brain aneurysm during a film shoot in Pittsburgh. He was 58.
The Times seems to have a bias toward male authors. The question then becomes where the bias comes from. Is it unconscious? But the question might be more complicated. Is the Times slighting books by women because those books are more likely to fall under the category of "commercial fiction," a category that critics are alleged to routinely ignore?
The New Republic 09/07/10
"Daley's cultural pronouncements are rarely adorned with Shakespearean eloquence. But it's hard to think of another American government official who has stepped out so far, and so often, in support of the arts as the lynchpin of a vibrant, modern city."
Chicago Tribune 09/08/10
