The director of the best film at Cannes wasn't there to collect his award. But it wasn't because Lars von Trier won. Instead, it was the famously publicity-shy Terrence Malick, whose The Tree of Life took the Palme d'Or.
The Associated Press reported that the producers of the winning movie, which stars...
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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's Demi & Ashton Foundation (aka DNA) recently released a handful of online PSAs featuring Justin Timberlake, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper and Jamie Foxx. In them, the stars perform an unlikely "real man" activity (Timberlake shaves with a chainsaw, Penn makes a grilled cheese with an iron) to contrast with what real men don't do — namely, buy girls...
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Reese Witherspoon and Hollywood agent Jim Toth tied the knot, People reports.
The private ceremony took place Saturday at Witherspoon's Ojai, Calif., ranch. The guest list included Renée Zellweger, Salma Hayek, Sean Penn...
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Charlie Sheen says no one from CBS or Warner Bros. has tried to contact him since production on Two and a Half Men was shut down.
"I would urge [CBS President] Les [Moonves] or [Warner Bros. TV President] Bruce [Rosenblum]or Chuck Lorre to call in," he said on Piers Morgan Tonight Monday evening. (They did not.)
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Sheen also said he hadn't heard from any of his fellow cast members since production halted. "I don't feel like there is any real...
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The Chicago Code (Monday, 9/8c, Fox)
As often happens in the best crime dramas, the bad guy often gets some of the meatiest material. And Ronin Gibbons, the Chicago Alderman played so deliciously by Delroy Lindo, is no ordinary adversary. We get a better sense of what makes him tick in this episode, when the powerful politician is confronted by an armed teenage robber, causing Gibbons to look back on his own upbringing, back before he became so cynical about the city's corrupt ways. In another storyline, a bomber blows up a city building and promises more mayhem, putting a ticking clock on Jarek and Caleb's efforts to track down the culprit. This situation is not unlike the dilemma on ABC's Castle an hour later (10/9c), in the conclusion of a tense two-parter that finds Beckett and Castle teaming up with a fed (Adrian Pasdar) to avert a terrorist calamity....
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