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There were four standing ovations at the 11th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards Gala in Beverly Hills last night:
Warner Brothers invited me to the Smithsonian Institution ceremony last night at which Clint Eastwood was presented with the museum's James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, and I must say it was a bittersweet moment for me.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. This year's list of Oscar nominees is so terrifically, breathtakingly right, I thought I must have been dreaming when they were announced early this morning. I've never come away from the Oscars announcement more satisfied that Hollywood really, really gets it-that the…
For most cruise passengers, the mandatory lifeboat drill is about as welcome as a case of sea sickness. The captain sounds the muster signal on that big honkin' boat horn (seven short beeps, then one long), you head back to your cabin, pick up your life vest, and then join that endless stream of…
"...and in my hour of darkness,
Click the link below to hear the 2-minute show from December 23, 2003; the third show we ever did. Why was I talking so slow???
Hasn't this movie opened already? We've heard so much for so long about Meryl Streep's scary-good performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, and she's been on so many magazine and newspaper covers promoting it, that I was pretty sure this thing has been in theaters for weeks now.
Ask someone to name a famous dog, and you'll likely get a split vote among perhaps a dozen celeb pooches, including Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, and Scooby Doo. Elicit the names of some legendary movie horses and Trigger, Silver, and National Velvet will probably top a mighty lengthy list.
I don't know about you, but I'm awful at keeping secrets. The most mundane of facts-for example, whether my daughter's Carvel ice cream birthday cake will be in the shape of Fudgie the Whale or Cookie Puss-will gnaw at my insides like the embryonic creature in Alien if presented to me with the…
There was a time, dear children, when the most famous Potter in the world wasn't a boy named Harry-he was a fatherly U.S. Army colonel, first name Sherman, and the only wizardly thing about him was his seemingly bottomless well of calm in a world driven to the brink of insanity by war.