VENICE (Reuters) - Martin Scorsese's latest film pays a personal tribute to Elia Kazan, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's most influential directors but also a controversial figure who turned anti-communist informant in the McCarthy era. In "A Letter to Elia," an hour-long documentary ...

Nathan Lee Parada, 31, of Redlands, California, could face up to six years in prison if convicted. Police said they do not know if Parada specifically targeted Hilton's home or if the burglary was ...

Klein, 31, also was sentenced to the four days he had already served in a Los Angeles jail and agreed to attend 18 months of alcohol education classes, officials said. The actor broke into Hollywood's ranks of young actors playing a naive teenager named Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival on Friday honored Hong Kong director John Woo, one of the few Asian filmmakers to enjoy box office success in Hollywood as well as at home. The 64-year-old was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival on the same day ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Social media" is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level. Now Facebook is the subject of what's expected to be the ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Sofia Coppola's latest movie is a Hollywood insider's look at the life of an A-list actor -- five star hotels and Ferraris, adoration and sexual advances, but also loneliness, tiresome media attention and boredom. "Somewhere" is part comedy and part examination of a ...

The Australian singer, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and underwent surgery and hair-losing chemotherapy. But Minogue, whose career began on the TV soap opera "Neighbours," returned to the stage within a year and continues to perform. She toured 21 countries last year, and ...

The show, which earned wide acclaim in London's West End, is based on the popular Norwegian novels that tell of a pair of mismatched roommates, their friendship and their relationships with pizza, poetry and women. A movie based on the books was nominated for foreign language film Oscar in 2001, ...

The 93-year-old actress remains in a great deal of pain from being bedridden for around seven weeks, said spokesman John Blanchette. Gabor, who is as famous for her lavish lifestyle and number of husbands -- she married nine times -- as for acting, broke her hip on July 17 and had replacement ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year and an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls. The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of ...