SPOTLIGHT ON SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS - Under Arrest
The miracle of Arrested Development—the wonderfully twisted and laugh-out-loud hilarious Sunday-night Fox comedy—isn't that it swept the Emmy Awards in September with statues for best comedy, writing, directing, editing, and casting. It's not even that creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his writing team manage to come up ...
In college, my non-theatre friends used to make me tell stories about my musical theatre classes. In their opinion, the insults our program director threw at us were worse than anything Simon Cowell could dish up.
I am a newcomer to Los Angeles and have auditioned for and joined one of the casting workshops where you sign up to meet agents and casting directors. How these workshops are perceived in the business?
Jon Favreau to Helm 'Iron Man' Film
Marvel Studios has hired Jon Favreau to develop and direct the big-screen adaptation of "Iron Man."
Jazz Giant Artie Shaw Dies at Age 94
Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Oh, Lady Be Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said.
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez take a three-hour ode to the Z-grade cinema of the 1970s, shot in the style of the time with enough sex and violence to satiate any exploitation junkie, and turn it into a Hollywood goldmine.
'Boys' Finds Place in History with More Awards
The History Boyscontinued its triumphant run through award season Monday when it won four awards from the Outer Critics Circle.
Writing Pair Set for 'Porky's' Redo
Craig Moss and Steve Schoenburg have been hired to write the remake of 1982's "Porky's," which Howard Stern is executive producing along with Larry Levinson. Dan Gross and Steve Squillante are producing.
Indecency Bill on Faster Track
Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is attempting to jump-start legislation that would impose a tenfold increase on fines for indecent broadcasts.
In this column, we usually begin by quoting the specific contract language for a particular type of job. In the case of audio books, however, contracts have little to say about them specifically. Audio books are covered by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' 2002–06 National Code ...
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