Milk ***½ Gus Van Sant directed Sean Penn to a Best Actor Oscar in this biopic of crusading politician Harvey Milk, who in the late 1970s became the first openly gay man to hold public office in this country. Dustin Lance Black's Oscar-winning screenplay follows its hero from middle-age awakening to his early death at the hands of a fellow San Francisco official. The cast includes Emile Hirsch. ...more

March 13, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. ...more

February 23, 2009

It's not a horror movie, although it is Hollywood spin. But to many Floridians, HBO's homage to the 2000 presidential vote-counting debacle will be a cringe-inducing look back at democracy in action in their home state — and it might prompt questions on whether, in this presidential election year, it could happen again. ...more

May 12, 2008

To many Floridians, HBO's homage to the 2000 presidential vote-counting debacle will be a cringe-inducing look back at democracy in action. ...more

May 12, 2008

Robin Wright Penn has filed for divorce from Sean Penn after 11 years of marriage. ...more

December 30, 2007

Michael Douglas has a new role on TV five nights a week. NBC chose the 63-year-old actor-producer as the announcer to introduce Brian Williams on the "Nightly News" each night. His recorded introduction was first heard last week. ...more

December 27, 2007