David O. Russell is on the phone, eager to talk about The Fighter, a movie whose unexpected dash to the top is not all that dissimilar from the story it tells.

Back in the day when writers were king, Elaine's was the place for book parties. That's how I first came there, to celebrate new publications by George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut.

Passing off stand-up comedy as a Broadway show, intentionally or not, does nothing but confuse the terminology of theatrical standards, whatever those might be.

Ruth Draper's plans included the century's most discerning figures: Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Katharine Hepburn. What were they cheering? A woman standing alone.

If Damages must leave television, wouldn't it make an amazing movie? The role that brought Close two Emmys and counting might also lead to her first Academy Award.

I love Tina Fey, but there was something a bit Obama-getting-the-Nobel-Priz-ish about the news that she'll receive the 2010 Mark Twain Prize for Humor...

AS Violet Newstead, the coffee-poisoning, corpse-stealing, boss-kidnapping office supervisor in the hit 1980 movie "9 to 5," Lily Tomlin did just abou...

Lily Tomlin does not wear the "comic legend" moniker easily; probably because she doesn't have time to reflect on four decades as a strong, out female in the male dominated world of stand-up comedy.

WASHINGTON — The late comedian George Carlin _ famous for those "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" _ was honored Monday with the Mark Twain P...

Screen Actors including Lily Tomlin, Minnie Driver, Zach Braff, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Kudrow, Hill Harper, Nicollette Sheridan and more joined Writers o...