
Redford swept away in shipwreck saga 'All Is Lost'
Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost." He doesn't have much choice. A man-versus-nature tale about a ...

From 'Gatsby' to Gosling, a preview of Cannes
For even those most accustomed to the frenzy of celebrity, the Cannes Film Festival can be a disorienting experience. For 12 days every year, the ...

Robert Redford to produce unscripted CNN series
CNN is planning an unscripted series about Chicago that will be executive-produced by Robert Redford. The eight-part series, "Chicagoland," will ...

Streisand feted by Clinton, Minnelli and friends
"Ever since I can remember," Barbra Streisand told a crowd at Lincoln Center Monday night, "people have been calling me bossy and opinionated." She ...
French judge to rule if Hopi masks can be sold
Is there such a thing as too sacred to sell? That's the question a French judge could answer Friday in a potentially landmark decision in Paris on ...

'Evil Dead' rises again with $26M box-office stake
Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office. The demonic horror remake "Evil Dead" ...

Obsessed fan who shot player, inspired movie, dies
She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she'd never met into a hotel room with a ...

Even without Vonn, US has plenty of medal chances
One year from the Sochi Olympics, there's no Lindsey Vonn or Bode Miller competing in the downhill at the world championships. They're out of action ...

A final '30 Rock' showcases its unsung music man
"When stuff is coming to an end, people freak out and they act crazy," says Liz Lemon. Liz and all the characters of "30 Rock" are doing just that on ...

Sundance heats up with a slew of sex-themed films
The Sundance Film Festival has never been sexier. The annual independent-film showcase has featured a slew of sexually themed movies in its various ...

Alex Pelosi's Sundance debut has political angle
Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall to Grace," about former New Jersey Gov

Playwright Anna Deavere Smith wins Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts. The committee that awards the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize ...

Redford: Diversity reigns at Sundance Festival
Diversity is king at the Sundance Film Festival — and queen, too. For the first time, half of the films featured at the festival were made by women.

Sundance is a bit much, even for founder Redford
Everybody wants a piece of Robert Redford. Young filmmakers talking him up for advice on the street. The stewardess on an airplane who mentions her ...

Sundance Day One: Fest jumps right in with 4 films
Film festivals can get off to a slow start. All that planning, all that travel booking for stars coming to pillage the gift suites, then everyone ...

Indie time: Sundance sets focus on low-budget film
It's that time of year again when a tiny ski-resort town becomes the place to be for anyone in show business — stars and directors, distribution ...

Durning, king of character actors, dies in NYC
Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the ...

US skier Steven Nyman wins World Cup downhill
It was about time some good fortune fell Steven Nyman's way. The American skier's once promising career was derailed for the past five years by a list ...

Common brings awareness to help free Peltier
When Harry Belafonte asked Common to participate in a benefit concert in support of freeing Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving ...

Shia LaBeouf to make Broadway debut this spring
Shia LaBeouf is about to transform — into a Broadway actor. The ex-star of the "Transformers" franchise will make his Broadway debut opposite Alec ...

Kutcher is Jobs, Seyfried is Lovelace at Sundance
Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film ...

Sundance books record slate of female filmmakers
The Sundance Film Festival has an apparent record lineup of female directors competing for its top honor this January. Half the entries — eight of the ...

'Potter' star Radcliffe heads to Sundance fest
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has landed his first entry in the Sundance Film Festival. Radcliffe plays poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama "Kill ...