Captain America is rising from the grave. The Marvel Comics superhero returns for the five-part series "Captain America Reborn," beginning July 1. ...more

June 15, 2009

Miley Cyrus plans to be back on the big screen, and soon. Hannah Montana? Not likely after her latest film. ...more

March 31, 2009

Dame Edna Everage says she's bringing her own stimulus package to town. "I am bringing laughs with a capitol 'L' to all my little possums in this time of need," she noted in a telephone interview. "In these hard economic times, if we can't laugh, what can we do?" ...more

March 26, 2009

The second group of the eighth season's finalists not headed to the unemployment line are Allison Iraheta, a 16-year-old high school student from Los Angeles; Kris Allen, a 23-year-old University of Central Arkansas student from Conway, Ark.; and Adam Lambert, a 26-year-old theater actor from Los Angeles. The trio received the most viewer votes. ...more

February 27, 2009

On Wednesday's live broadcast of "American Idol" , the second group of 12 contestants were vying to be among this season's dozen finalists. ...more

February 26, 2009

Image counts on "American Idol," and the first three finalists know it. ...more

February 19, 2009

John Updike, 76, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday of lung cancer in a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass. ...more

January 28, 2009

Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief. ...more

January 8, 2009

Going public with an alter ego is generally not a great career move. It creates the impression of Section 8 craziness, or at least a painful lack of self-awareness. Remember "Esther," Madonna? ...more

December 4, 2008

It has been four years since the world last heard from the acoustic emcee Everlast. ...more

October 10, 2008