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I’ve been bitching about the Arab media a fair amount lately for various sins including functioning as a mouthpiece for terrorists and spreading bizarre disinformation about sex. In today’s WSJ, Jon Alterman voices his own concerns: new communication technology has changed the information environment in the Middle East, as it …

Queen Latifah busted for drunk driving in LA: Latifah was pulled over by police at 3:15 a.m. after she was spotted making an unsafe lane change on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Freeway in her 2002 Cadillac Escalade SUV. The CHP says the 32-year-old hip-hopster cooperated with police. She handed over a …

Oscar-winning actor, Australian pub-rock singer Russell Crowe canceled plans for a US Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts tour citing a “massive level of stress” – that and his head still hurts from his latest brawl: announced he has headed home to Australia to spend time with his ailing father and …

Part of a trio of brothers who produced some of the most important films of the ’60s: After going into business with his eldest brother, Irving, supplying candy to movie theaters, Marvin Mirisch moved to Los Angeles in 1953 to join his two other siblings in the movie production business …

Whoa – you think I’ve been slamming TV, especially “reality” TV, hard? Check out this preview of tonight’s programming by Robert Bianco in USA Today: Even on a medium prone to the tawdry, seldom have we seen a seamier battle than tonight’s competition between CBS’ Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and …

That depends upon who you talk to: Former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett is back in Baghdad — the scene of his glory days from the last Gulf War — and he predicts that the United States will be at war with Iraq in short order. ”I don’t think Saddam will …

Network TV seems to be an endless sluice of ever more base “reality shows” (quotation marks because these shows are just as staged as Touched by an Angel and a whole lot less honest about it) in a race to the bottom of the unlit basement of human nature, many …

"Essentially, this is a story about the first U.S. cavalry charge of the 21st century," said Neufeld, who described the project as "Black Hawk Down" meets "Lawrence of Arabia."

My daughter just turned 3 – she watches Monsters, Inc. at least four times a week. She identifies with Boo, loves the big hairly Sully and the round mono-optical Mike, and she decries the treachery of the orotund, crab-like Mr. Waternoose every time he banishes the heroes to Tibet. What …

This little film about the dirty truth behind filmmaking should be a huge hit. I would watch reality TV if it worked like this.