Hollywood Beltway

Everyone loves/hates lists. Here are two for the decade of 00’s. Don’t like the choices? Make your own list! It’s fun! PS If I forgot something, it’s inadvertent. Most boring movie of all time: “Gerry,” by Gus van Sant. I can still remember counting the panels in the Eccles Auditorium while Matt Damon and Casey [...]

This column is on a short hiatus–believe it or not–possibly not returning before January 4th. If something terrible, or great, happens, go straight to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com for more information. See you in the New Year!

Broadway is packed this week with tourists and the like. You can barely get a seat to any show, and the restaurants in the theater district are full. But come January 4th, the Great White Way will be singing a different tune. Several shows are in trouble at the box office and may close quickly. Among them: [...]

With movie theaters in the middle of an all-time record weekend in an all-time record year, the L.A. Times produces a useful round-up and look ahead at the theatrical release window:  Exhibitors have drawn a line in the sand, steadfastly resisting the compression of release dates that they view as a threat to their [...]

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A man identified as Jasper Schuringa, heroically risked his life to save his fellow passengers from the plans of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Are you paying attention Oliver Stone?

Excerpt: for more, CLICK HERE.

A man identified as Jasper Schuringa, heroically risked his life to save his fellow passengers from the plans of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Are you paying attention Oliver Stone?

Excerpt: for more, CLICK HERE.

Maybe it’s because it’s a holiday weekend, but the crazy stories are starting up again. Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson tells me by email tonight that she is definitely not pregnant despite Star magazine and others insisting on it. Hudson had a baby son, David, last August. She is planning a wedding to David’s dad, her fiancee, David [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis has two Oscars, one for playing a paralyzed man with cerebral palsy whose left foot does the talking, and another for playing a megalomaniac empire builder who bludgeoned one enemy with a bowling pin. Now, in the musical comedy, “Nine,” he follows the advice of the musical’s centerpiece number: “Be Italian.” DDL, famous for [...]

I wouldn’t say everyone was surprised by the news that Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have separated. They were never married, but for 23 years they reigned supreme as New York and Hollywood’s top liberal couple. Three years ago, it was clear that Robbins was alone in Los Angeles doing a play. Sarandon was home in [...]