LOS ANGELES (AP) – Academy Awards watchers like to turn Hollywood’s season of film honors into a showdown between two main contenders.Monday’s Golden Globes could play into that: The winner of the Globes for best drama and best musical or comedy might end up duking it out at the Oscars.The Globes are one of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The Broadway-bound production of “Grease,” currently the focus of an NBC reality series, sold $1.3 million worth of tickets during the first two days tickets were on sale.The $10 million revival begins preview performances July 24, most likely at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, after the Kevin Spacey revival of Eugene O’Neill’s […]

MIAMI – Helen Leon, 32, is a pretty young thing. Bebe Neuwirth with a dash of Gloria Estefan.In December, the Miami real estate agent had breast implants, rhinoplasty and a blepharoplasty (fat sucked out of the lower eyelid). Ballpark: $17,000.“I figured I’m in my 30s now, it was time for a tuneup,” says Leon. “My […]

For many, the year begins with a new resolve to lose weight, as Web Search discussed recently in an overview of calorie counting online. For some, sharing their dieting struggles and triumphs is the motivation behind their Web sites. Join them on their weight-loss journeys. www.fatguyblog.com Greg Todd’s new No More Mr. Fat Guy blog […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The 5-year-old child of James Brown and his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, is not included in the will read Thursday to six of the entertainer’s children, attorneys for the late singer say.While the will provides for six children, Hynie’s son, James Jr., is not one of those listed in the document, […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Rosie O’Donnell has a powerful ally in her feud with Donald Trump: her close friend Madonna.“People are giving Rosie a hard time,” Madonna, who starred with O’Donnell in 1992’s “A League of Their Own,” said Thursday on NBC’s “Today” show. “I wish they’d stop. I don’t think it’s fair.”The 48-year-old pop […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz are officially kaput.The duo – dating since 2003 – confirmed their split Thursday in a joint statement.“We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship, and have done so mutually and as friends, with continued love and respect for one another,” the pair said.The two said they […]

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Joaquin Phoenix, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Naomi Watts and the cast of “Heroes” (Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Adrian Pasdar, Hayden Panettiere, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Milo Ventimiglia) have been set as presenters at “The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards” to be telecast live on NBC Monday, January 15 from 8 to […]

The title of the film is “Dreamgirls” but it could have been called “A Star Is Born.” Former “American Idol” contestant Jennifer Hudson absolutely walks away with this big, splashy dazzler of a picture, based on the 1981 Broadway musical, even before performing her plaintive, showstopping number, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” […]

Big names voicing characters fail to give weight to movie There must have been some charm to the French blend of animation and live action titled “Arthur et les Minimoys,” a fantasy concocted by the director of “The Fifth Element.”Re-cut into “Arthur and the Invisibles,” with English speakers doing the cartoon voices, the charm is […]