The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
(AP) LOS ANGELES – The Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Cool Hand Luke” has died. Frank Pierson’s family says he died of natural causes Monday in Los Angeles after a short illness. He was 87. He won an
Hate today’s Auto-Tune-enabled pop songs? Your anger might burn hotter after taking in the touring production of “Jersey Boys,” a superior jukebox musical which routinely transcends the label. “Jersey Boys,” currently playing at the Buell Theatre in Denver through Aug. 11
“Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” recalls that marvelous moment in time when man finally conquered the air but didn’t quite know what to do with that skill. It’s also a hearty example of mid-60s filmmaking, when grand ambitions,
The newest celebrity-filled fundraiser for President Barack Obama isn’t tied to any A-list star or girl power icon. Instead, the critically hailed series “The Wire,” which ran for five seasons on HBO and ended in 2008, is the inspiration for
Nobel Laureate of Science Paul McCartney has spoken. The Arctic is melting, and the last forty years have wrought more destruction to the arctic Ice Shelf than the last 800,000 years. That is a rather childish statement, but what the
Pop star Mariah Carey is taking over at the troubled TV talent show “American Idol” after Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and pop diva Jennifer Lopez quit as judges. Lopez and Tyler announced earlier this month their departure from the show, which
In perhaps the least self-aware review of the politics of “The Dark Knight Rises” yet, Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times is befuddled at the idea that left-wing thought could ever be portrayed negatively. First, he admits his own
Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of “High Noon,” the Gary Cooper classic of a proud man who stands up to evil no matter the risks. The film’s anniversary also lets us reconsider how much movies have changed since 1952, giving
Over the weekend, former “Seinfeld” star Jason Alexander released a vitriolic anti-gun screed at a Twitter-style social media outlet. Big Hollywood contributor Jeremy Choate offers this less heated rebuttal: Dear Jason, Before I begin, let me respectfully submit that I
Thank goodness we have celebrities like Bette Midler to point out the ills of modern society. Midler, via her Twitter account, filled us in earlier today about why things are going to heck in a hand basket of late. And
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama, “The Newsroom,” has been resoundingly criticized not only by conservatives for peddling false memes about the Tea Party and against American exceptionalism, but also by liberal publications like The New Yorker, which called the show “insufferable.”
This week Aaron Sorkin fired the entire writing staff from Season 1 of “The Newsroom,” save his ex-girlfriend Corinne Kinsbury. The execrable writing for this show is nowhere near Sorkin’s well deserved reputation for brilliant dialogue and has been wasting
(AP) Boldly go: Patrick Stewart joins Olympic torch runLONDONThe Olympic flame is boldly going to Wimbledon. Actor Patrick Stewart, best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” is set to take a turn on the torch
