Entertainment

'Leap Year' Movie Trailer Released Online, WATCH It (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment


The trailer for the movie 'Leap Year' hit the Web tonight. The New York Post offered one of the first reactions to the trailer, poking fun at the pre...

Modern Warfare 2 and Digital Distribution

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment


Theodore Bergquist

The online retail marketplace for video games was recently shaken by the fact that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 comes included with third-party technology that includes a virtual storefront.

Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood

Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment


Anne Hill

Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

Stage Door: Superior Donuts, The Understudy, Vamps

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York


Fern Siegel

When August: Osage County drama burst on Broadway, it trumpeted the arrival of Tracy Letts, who won the Pulitzer. By contrast, his follow-up effort, Superior Donuts, is a quiet meditation.

Dizzy Feet Foundation Benefits From 'So You Think You Can Dance' Tour (VIDEO)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact


The 'So You Think You Can Dance' Tour is well underway, with just a handful of West Coast cities to go before the last show on Nov. 21 in Everett, Was...

The Pigskin Arts and Dementia

Gordon Marino | Posted 11.10.2009 | Sports


Gordon Marino

As a former high school and college coach, I have seen many players come out of games seeing stars and being disoriented, only to return to the fray a few plays later.

Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis

Fern Siegel | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York


Fern Siegel

Broadway reviewed: a reminder of how wonderful revivals can be, a family story of burgeoning sexuality and a musical about the epicenter of R&B and soul.

A City and Nation of Bystanders

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics


Charles Karel Bouley

How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their c...

Google Music Search Launches (VIDEO)

googleblog.blogspot.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology


Google has announced in a blog post that Google Music Search is officially "rolling out." This new feature will allow users to hear song previews and ...

Soupy Sales, Rod Serling -- Prophets Who Raised a Generation

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment


Bradley Burston

This was an era when the original Mad Men ruled the collective unconscious, when a gleaming pastel future, and, by extension, a lavishly sterile present, were held up as ideals and goals.

Stage Struck

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


David Dean Bottrell

Theatre in L.A. is sort of a strange beast. When I first arrived here to seek my fortune as a screenwriter, I was floored by the number of small theat...

LeBron James Dunks on George W. Bush's Ass

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy


Matthew Filipowicz

Le Bron James wants to dunk on G.W. Bush's ass, break the rim, and shatter the glass. The former President, never one to avoid biting off more than he can chew, issued a trash talking response.

MySpace Wants its Cool Back

Piers Fawkes | Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology


Piers Fawkes

In a strategy shift, MySpace will try to become an online hangout for people who want to connect with their friends over entertainment content.

Stage Door: Still Life, A Steady Rain, If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews

Fern Siegel | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York


Fern Siegel

Three shows on and off Broadway showcase friendships, street life and New York's forgotten era of Jewish and Irish songwriters.

No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment


Beverly Wettenstein

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

New York Celebrity Salon, the Dop Dop Salon

Jeff Rivera | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment


Jeff Rivera

Jeff Rivera is an entertainment reporter who blogs about young Hollywood celebrities . He is also the author of the novel, Forever My Lady(Grand Ce...

"Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media


Raymond J. Learsy

Ominously, officers of the London Police forced the withdrawal of a naked image of actress Brooke Shields, aged 10, from the newly opened "Pop Life" exhibition at the Tate Modern.

Boycotts, Brides, and 50,000+ Reasons Leonard Cohen Played in Israel

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment


Karin Kloosterman

It's a big commitment for artists to come to Israel. I can't think of one big act that has come to Israel without pro-Palestinian organizations boycotting against them. With all the bad press, who wants to be bothered?

Media Drops the F-Bomb Into Its Headlines

Danny Groner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media


Danny Groner

By the looks of it, the "F-Bomb" has been lurking for some time now, but it took the Slate incident on SNL to help propel it further. Call me old-fashioned, but what ever happened to the old, reliable, and charged F-Word?

Cirque du Soleil and the Meditating Clown

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver


Ed and Deb Shapiro

The focus and concentration of Cirque du Soleil clowns and acrobats is a kind of meditation -- one slip and it could all be over!

The Magic and Music of Cirque Du Soleil's Kooza

Brett Greene | Posted 09.28.2009 | Denver


Brett Greene

There simply is no higher form of entertainment than a night under the tent with Cirque Du Soleil's experience of dreaming while awake in a magical atmosphere.

An Interview With the Smart and Savvy Jill Zarin

2morrowknight | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York


2morrowknight

Long before being a recognizable celebrity, Jill Zarin had a long record of accomplishment that reveals her to be nothing less than a Renaissance woma...

Survivor: Samoa: Law & Order: Samoan Psycho Unit.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment


Tallulah Morehead

When we rejoined our merry band of castaways, Russell's stubbly chest hair was already growing back across his pecs. He's actually kind of sexy, in a depraved backwoods psycho-perv way.

Michael Moore Says Capitalism Is "Anti-Jesus," Warns Obama Over Donations (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Moore included one detail in his latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," just for President Obama. What is it? We know who's supporting you...