Tom Cruise appeared on NBC’s Today Show this morning because he was in the neighborhood and has a movie coming out and is in love and stuff. He got into it a bit with host Matt Lauer – especially heated was their exchange regarding Cruise’s recent criticism of that tall, …

Keith Jarrett will play a solo concert at Carnegie Hall on September 26th – his first solo concert in North America since 1995, and his first solo outing at Carnegie in 30 years. The solo concert was announced on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall when Jarrett and his long-time trio …

UPDATE – NEW TRAILER (WMP) (QuickTime) A murder mystery-political thriller, The Constant Gardener, directed by Academy Award-nominated Fernando Meirelles of City of God fame, and starring Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List) and Rachel Weisz (The Mummy movies, About a Boy, Runaway Jury, Constantine) will be a late addition …

Gibson Guitar and Baldwin Piano are sponsoring the “Gibson/Baldwin Night at the Net,” an annual pro-celebrity tennis event that opens the 79th Annual Mercedes-Benz Cup tennis tournament Monday, July 25 in Straus Stadium at the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA. Proceeds from the event will benefit the MusiCares Foundation, …

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night not to grant the request of a consortium of stunt performers’ organizations for an annual Academy Award category in their field. Stunt performers had protested outside Oscar headquarters saying that their contributions to moviemaking …

We at Blogcritics are deeply honored, and I am personally touched, to have been selected among the inaugural AlwaysOn and Technorati “Open Media 100 – the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution.” I mean this is a serious, serious list of …

Under a mounting crush of criticism from the White House, Republicans in Congress, conservative talk radio, and bloggers galore for comparing alleged abuse by American troops of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center to the actions of Nazis, Soviets, the Khmer Rouge, and other “mad regimes,” Sen. Richard J. …

Further roiling the Gitmo-politico-gulagian waters, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, announced legislation that would create an independent commission to investigate detainee abuse modeled after the one created to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “These questions are important because the safety of our …

Quoth Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) regarding a report on Gitmo: “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets …

Will we ever find Osama bin Laden? This question is the elephant in the room of the war on terror. The man responsible for the death of 3,000 people on American soil and countless other atrocities around the world is still, as far as we know, alive and reasonably well …