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Paris Hilton and her mother Kathy will be grand marshalls of the Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual & Transgender Pride Parade, expected to draw tens-of-thousands of celebrants this Sunday in West Hollywood. This is the 35th anniversary of the parade, which was first held on June 28, 1970 to commemorate …

Three films highlighting African-American cinema between 1929 and 1954 will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on June 17 and 18 at the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Presented in conjunction with the Academy’s touring exhibition “Close Up in …

Michael Radford has finally provided us with a Merchant worth watching. He follows the path of most resistance by depicting Shylock as the tragic hero brought down by his flaws

His work as an actor goes far beyond the normal level of effort exerted by a conventional leading man which results in his performances being elevated into works of art as unique as his poems and pictures

Shrugging off concerns that Tom Cruise is a deranged Scientologist whose proclamations of cataclysmic love for young Katie Holmes on Oprah and elsewhere were either unhinged or improbable, new Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad Grey announced yesterday that Mission: Impossible 3, starring the aforementioned toothy star and Ving Rhames, …

Fresh on the heels of Carl’s Jr.’s latest TV ad campaign featuring a soaped-up, hamburger-loving Paris Hilton (ad here), HUM Recordings today announced plans to release a full-length version of the song accompanying the ad, Cole Porter’s classic “I Love Paris” as sung by indie rocker Eleni Mandell. The song …

Batman Begins (trailers here), which opens in traditional and IMAX theaters June 15, is an an “intellectual action epic” which “respectfully ignores” the four previous Batman films and tells the story from the dark mythic beginning once again with more character and less whizbang action than its big-budget predecessors, according …

Music Plus TV co-founder Marc Cubas is tired of Britney Spears. “I’m tired of listening to the same stuff,” he complains. He believes he has the cure. On June 15th, Cubas and co-founder Dennis Tzeng officially launch Music Plus TV, a Los Angeles-based 24-hour live streaming web television station that …

Cinderella Man, directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti is already generating Oscar talk. The tale of a beleaguered boxer whose comeback heartens a nation mired in the Depression, the Imagine Entertainment production could be the adult movie of the summer. Blogcritics reviews: Cinderella …

Directed by Ron Howard Story by Cliff Hollingsworth Screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman The team behind the very mediocre, factually inaccurate biography, A Beautiful Mind has reformed to tell the true-life tale of boxer Jim Braddock. After the distortions and mistruths that were represented as the life and …