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After 17 seasons on "The Bachelor" (plus eight seasons on "The Bachelorette" and three on "Bachelor Pad"), host Chris Harrison says one thing makes Sean Lowe stand out from ... 

Carnival parades managed to roll Sunday in New Orleans despite bad weather, but revelers might not be so lucky on Monday. Parades planned for Fat Monday, or Lundi Gras ... 

Iran-hostage drama "Argo" continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the British Academy Film ... 

While the Grammy Awards couldn't come close to the freakishly high ratings generated in 2012 because of Whitney Houston's death and Adele's smashing success, this year's show ... 

Unlike last year, when the Grammys became the Adele show, each of the leading nominees in a diverse and eclectic field got a chance to bask in the spotlight of music's biggest ... 

Show Bits brings you the 55th annual Grammy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each ... 

Writer Geoff Johns has taken DC Entertainment's Green Lantern and its associated characters through brightest day and blackest night, but after nine years of scripting tales ... 

Israeli police Monday detained 10 women, including the sister of American comic Sarah Silverman, as they tried to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, the head of a liberal Jewish ... 

"Truth in Advertising" (Touchstone), by John Kenney A hilarious op-ed column on politics appeared in The New York Times as the 2012 presidential election was winding down — ... 

Ari Karpel and David Mermelstein are AwardsLine contributors From the homemade, unpolished qualities of and The Gatekeepers to the journalism of How To Survive A Plague and ... 

This season’s supporting actor and actress Oscar races can be summed up in one word: Winners! A remarkable seven of the 10 nominees actually already have at least one Oscar ... 

A Ukrainian TV host known for pranking celebs is now facing a March court date in Los Angeles. The moron wormed his way into last night’s 55th Grammy Awards and crashed an ... 

When I learned of the news that Pope Benedict XVI was going to become the first pope in six centuries to resign from office,  I immediately thought, I wonder what Alex Gibney ... 

The first thing I thought when I saw this trailer for Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem was, oh good, someone's finally made a movie about what it was  like to live on ... 

Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z,  in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation ...