By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
"Oz the Great and Powerful" aims for nostalgia in older viewers who grew up on "The Wizard of Oz" and still hold the classic dear while simultaneously enchanting a newer, younger audience. It never really accomplishes either successfully.
From the random salute to James Bond to the non-sequiturial "Chicago" revival to Seth MacFarlane's predictably fratty but unpredictably tedious stint as a host — dear Rob Lowe and Snow White: All is forgiven — this year's Oscars were even more tumefied and wearisome than usual.
You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.
More surprising even than the popular success and entertainment value of this year's best picture field is that the nominees — with the exception of "Amour" — have actually been films with a positive, traditional message.
Seth MacFarlane might be the hardest working man in show business.
Seth MacFarlane might be the hardest working man in show business.
Despite getting advice from Billy Crystal and working as hard as he can to prepare to host the Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane thinks his hosting gig is a "one-off" and that he'll be "flayed by the press" no matter what he does.
Despite getting advice from Billy Crystal and working as hard as he can to prepare to host the Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane thinks his hosting gig is a "one-off" and that he'll be "flayed by the press" no matter what he does.
Make no mistake, "Parental Guidance" is a dog of a movie that stretches a half-hour's worth of situation comedy into feature length. It's mawkish, trite and written at the level of an episode of "The Nanny."
After nearly 30 years of friendship and shared tastes in movies, music and comedy, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler have finally taken it to the next level: They did a film together.
The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes "Parental Guidance" a perfectly tolerable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience.
Kodak has found a buyer for its imaging patent portfolios, an important step for the company as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy protection in the first half of 2013.
Marilyn Monroe. The Rolling Stones. And Bond _ James Bond. What do they have in common?
Britain's Royal Collection Trust is going pop art with the purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.
Actor Billy Crystal babysat for his granddaughters for five days, and from the experience, a movie was born.
He keeps his mouth shut for as long as he can, until he can suffer no more and tells everyone how they did things back in his day -- usually with ruinous results.
Crystal, also a producer of the film, said he uses movies and performing as a means of working through significant chapters of his life.
