Zap2it.com Completing a “trade” that began more than eight months ago with Zach Braff appearing on “Arrested Development,” Jason Bateman is set to guest-star on an episode of “Scrubs” later this season.Along with a handful of ornery ostriches.“Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence is an avowed “Arrested Development” fan, and Bateman is friendly with several “Scrubs” writers. […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Redford recently did something not so unusual for him. He hung out with his pal Paul Newman.But what was different: He did it for a documentary to air on Sundance Channel, the cable network he founded but seldom appears on.As the season finale of “Iconoclasts,” this hourlong portrait sticks to […]

Andrew Jackson said, “Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth, can not be produced by human institutions, but every man is equally entitled to protection by law. When the laws undertake to make the rich man richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society have a right to complain of the […]

New York Daily News Barbara Walters is caught up in the Christmas spirit.She appeared at her ABC office last week wearing a bright red mohair coat, knee-high black suede boots and, in her impeccably coiffed blond hair – reindeer antlers.“I think they suit me,” she said. “Not everybody could wear these.”Seeing the doyenne of TV […]

BEIJING (AP) – Chinese broadcasters have tidied up Wisteria Lane, cutting out some of the sex and violence from “Desperate Housewives.”A Chinese-dubbed version of the ABC hit series debuted Monday on China’s state-run CCTV8 channel. The entire first season was to air in seven days, with three shows playing every night.Qin Mingxin, deputy director of […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) – “American Idol” runner-up Bo Bice was rushed to a hospital with complications from recent intestinal surgery, a publicist for his record label said Monday.Bice, 30, became ill Sunday while rehearsing for a performance on the 2005 Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin Resort & Casino, said Roger Widynowski, a publicist for […]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – Was the name of a swanky bar in downtown Greensboro inspired by a literary giant or a pet bulldog? It may take a court decision to settle the dispute.The owner of Hemingway’s Downtown says he named the six-month-old business after the English bulldog he had as a boy.Heirs of Ernest Hemingway, […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Writers on “The West Wing” aren’t expected to begin grappling with how to deal with actor John Spencer’s death until after the holidays – and the production and program schedule affords them extra time to do so.Spencer, 58, who played former White House chief of staff and now vice presidential candidate […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “King Kong” was less of a box-office brute than Hollywood expected, taking in $50.15 million in its first weekend, a sturdy start but unremarkable by Hollywood blockbuster standards.Universal Pictures’ action spectacle about a giant ape took over the top box-office spot from Disney’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch […]

LONDON (AP) – Elton John said forming a civil partnership with his longtime lover David Furnish in England this week will be “the happiest day of my life.”But, the pop star added, he will feel sorry for the many gay couples who live in countries that prohibit such unions.“It has been a long struggle for […]