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Tom Hanks really is an amazing actor: after building a career on goofy romantic comedy, Hanks has gone on to successfully play an array of roles and genres so wide, and his portrayals are so convincing and embodying, that it is easy to forget it was actually HIM in Philadelphia, …

Howard Stern whined and felt sorry for himself on his radio show Friday. He lamented that his show was over: Shock jock and self-proclaimed “King of All Media” Howard Stern believes his reign on the radio is coming to an end. “The show is over,” he announced Friday morning on …

When I am scanning the news, I usually take a quick look at AP’s Strange News because, you know, it’s news and it’s strange and stuff. What is concerning me is that hardly a week goes by that a Strange News item doesn’t come out of my home state of …

I have to admit I liked the first live action Scooby-Doo movie far more than was reasonable, or certainly predictable. While the plot was arcane and preposterous, the cast was terrific and their interaction funny and even touching. Now the same cast is back for Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, coming …

The great film music composer, conductor and performer Henry Mancini, whom Donald Fagen called the “High Priest of Hollywood Cool,” has now been gone for ten years. In commemoration of this and the 80th anniversary of his birth, this is the Year of Mancini. The U.S. Postal Service will issue …

Elisa Peimer has stuck by her muse and finally produced a CD that sounds as good as her talent deserves. Knowing what kind of music she wants to master – shimmering, straight-ahead pop-rock, heavy on the pop – and devoting all her energy to it has paid off. “Take the …

After watching faithfully, sometimes breathlessly, the first three seasons of The Sopranos, we took last year off for a variety of reasons: inconvenient airing times, sick of Tony, sick of the ultimate moral hole at the bottom of all these lives, the previews weren’t nearly as favorable as previous years. …

Regarding the economy, it’s all a matterof how you look at it: Consumer confidence rebounded over the past month as Americans felt better about their current financial situations as well as the economy’s prospects in the months ahead. The AP-Ipsos consumer confidence index rose to 97.7 this week. That’s an …

This will be an interesting show: how will they handle Nipplegate? Will they parody the stunt itself? Will they ignore it? Singer Janet Jackson is to host TV comedy show Saturday Night Live next month in her first network performance since her infamous TV breast-baring. NBC said Jackson would present …

Last week ‘N Sync-er JC Chasez released his first solo album to tepid sales. The boy band era is now over and thus far only Justin Timberlake has emerged as a solo star. While the boy band boom and bust is a familiar cycle there are some differences this time …