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Directed by Carl Reiner Screenplay by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias Story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb The Jerk tells the “rags to riches to rags” story of Navin R. Johnson, a “typical bastard” to some. When the film opens, Navin is homeless and he tells the viewer …

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The Star Wars series is a celluloid sestina that transcends generations in its power to move and entertain.

Neither feuds, nor tudes, ludes, dudes, or prudes will keep Paris Hilton, 24, AND Nicole Richie, 23, from The Simple Life. Both have been signed to a fourth season of their fish-out-of-water reality show wherein the pampered progenies encounter the little people and attempt to interact with them without causing …

Allegations probed for probity and judicatory ramifications. FoxTV and the producers of American Idol, Fremantle Media and 19 Television, have hired an independent counsel, experienced in “this type of inquiry,” to look into allegations that judge Paula Abdul had an affair with Idol contestant Corey Clark during the show’s second …

Based on the hit television series that ran from 1979-85, the new movie version of The Dukes of Hazzard (see the tongue-in-cheek trailer here), opening August 5, is set in the present day and follows the adventures of “good old boy” cousins, Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) …

Northern Exposure, which ran from 1990 to 1995, is set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, where the residents are lovable eccentrics whose lives are set in a world of magic realism, limited only by the writers’ imaginations. It’s a place where it’s perfectly natural for ex-boyfriends to be …

The 78th Annual Academy Awards, televised live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, will be held on Sunday, March 5, 2006. The gala will start on the hour: 5 p.m. on the West Coast, 8 p.m. on the East. The red carpet …

A 27 year-old Islamist radical of joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, Mohammed Bouyeri, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for committing a terrorist act by murdering Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh last November. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of several police officers and …

The death of actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, motivates me to rethink the purpose of the series and subsequent feature films.