Didn't get invited to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's shindig, either? We know, it hurts. But at least now you can get a good, up-close look at the pair on their big day...

The Dave Matthews Band brass has been silenced. Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, one of the founding members of the Virginia-based jam band, died Tuesday afternoon at Hollywood Presbyterian...

Sure, life as a touring rap star seems glamorous and all, but consider the case of Snoop Dogg and his Unity Tour: Between those shows with tens of thousands of screaming fans, clamoring press and...

Nicole Kidman's got the golden touch. A phone call from the Australian actress helped spur two of her countrymen to victory Monday in the men's 470 class sailing competition at...

Victoria Beckham has had it up to here with tabloids trying to get the skinny on her figure. The glamorous Brit is reportedly gearing up to sue the U.K. magazine Now over an article that...

• Jon Voight and Roseanne Barr are worse than Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. J.Vo responded to R.Bo's angry blog post by calling her "sick of the mind." Either settle this...

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Why are most stars Democrats? You would think as high wage earners, they would be Republicans. —Dawn Remember: Top-paid actors are also members of a massive...

Mark Spitz has been vanquished. But not so Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia. Michael Phelps' Spitz-sinking swim on Saturday elevated NBC to its best ratings on the once-mighty,...

Kristin Chenoweth wants the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked to be made pronto. Why? Because Chenoweth wants to play Glinda, the role she originated in the...

We hear that they were doing it anyway, but now audience members are actually going to be encouraged to sing and dance in the aisles while watching Mamma Mia! Universal Pictures...

Maybe the Olympics have instilled a little patriotism in Joe Francis. How else to explain why the Girls Gone Wild founder has stepped up to take one for the team, filing a multimillion-dollar...

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Last year's Jordache ads featuring Heidi Klum were so successful, the company invited her back. And since she was coming back, why not design some jeans, too? That's how a...

Funnylady and current Playboy cover girl Anna Faris puts it all out there in House Bunny, as both the star and a producer. She talked to me recently about where she got the idea (a Playmate is...

Finally, a Fonzie that's incapable of jumping the shark. If only he existed 30 years ago. A statue of Arthur Fonzarelli was unveiled to a Happy Days-loving crowd on Wisconsin's...

It may not make you Richie Rich, but it would be for a good cause. Nicole Richie and her beau, Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, are seeking an intern to help them run the website for...

It's been hard for Rumer Willis, aspiring actress, to try and break free from Demi Moore's MILF shadow, Bruce Willis' mega-action-star status and the Internet's "potato...

Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way. After a major court victory, the studio has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.' anticipated...

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TV Renewals & Rejections: Final episode to air on Nov. 25 -- Vic Mackey will beat up his last bad guy on Nov. 25. FX has set an air date for the final episode of "The Shield," which begins its seventh and final season Sept. 2.

Technology News: 'Jonas Moore' to be developed as series -- MGM Domestic Television Distribution has optioned U.K.-based online graphic novel "The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore" for development as a series. MGM execs say the move is part of a burgeoning effort to put the Lion back into the TV production biz in a significant way.

Pilot Watch: Actress to star as single mother of two -- Valerie Bertinelli is plotting a return to the sitcom biz, this time playing a single mother of two.

Exclusives: Goldberger to write, direct Animus' indie drama -- Thomas Haden Church is starring in Animus Films' indie drama "Don McKay" with Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmet Walsh and Keith David.

Exclusives: German actor eyes role in Tarantino film -- Teutonic thesp Michael Fassbender is in final negotiations to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s "Inglorious Bastards."

Reality TV: Actress will seek 'New Best Friend' on ITV -- Paris Hilton's next BFF will be sporting a British accent. U.K.'s ITV has pacted with Lionsgate and Ish Entertainment to produce "Paris Hilton's New Best Friend," which is set to air sometime in 2009 on ITV2.

Labor Issues: Members will receive missive today -- In a slap at SAG and its stalled contract talks, the DGA's issued a staunch defense of its new-media deal with the majors and its exemption for low-budget productions.

Inside Moves: Jackson, Walsh, Boyens onboard for film -- Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have officially signed on to collaborate on "The Hobbit" and its sequel with director Guillermo del Toro.

Los Angeles: Sport heads to CBS, Versus -- Nascent sport SlamBall is getting a big push from its owners IMG Sports Media and Tollin Prods.

Web Exclusive: Operation offers 202 networks, 50 VOD channels -- Reliance ADA Group, the Indian conglom that is negotiating with DreamWorks, has launched its direct to home satellite TV operation, Big TV.

Web Exclusive: Society will take over some of org's services -- As part of a massive expansion, the San Francisco Film Society will become stewards of the Film Arts Foundation, a move which pushes the film society toward filmmaker services and doubles its membership.

Exec Shuffle: Agent named CEO of production company -- Longtime William Morris agent Adam Sher has been named CEO of Ryan Seacrest Prods.

Film Reviews: Southside Tehran meets northside Tehran in Parisa Bakhtavar's uneven but periodically clever comedy debut, "Tambourine," which observes the lives of condo dwellers upturned by the entry of a young woman and her friendly but gullible new pal.

Film Reviews: Using a pure docu style unencumbered by direct-to-camera interviews, Fernand Melgar takes his observational but still impassioned eye into a Swiss detention center for asylum seekers.

Film Reviews: An Ashkenazi Jew's transformation into one of the most influential thinkers of modern Islam is explored in Austrian helmer Georg Misch's provocative docu.

Business News: Network brings in over $1 billion -- NBC is spinning financial gold out of its spectacular Nielsen ratings for the Olympics, harvesting $25 million in ad sales since the Games began Aug. 8 on top of the $1 billion from Madison Avenue already pocketed by the network.

Film Reviews: Julien Temple, visual high priest of both rock and punk ("Absolute Beginners," "The Filth and the Fury," "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten"), ventures into thornier ground in adapting Jonathan Mills and Dorothy Porter's contemporary hour-plus opera about sublime repetition Down Under.

DVD Reviews: Noam Murro's "Smart People" passed through theaters this April with little fanfare; its DVD sales should find a similar reception. A dysfunctional-family dramedy about emotionally stunted academics who can't seem to escape their own misery, "Smart People" features one sharp supporting performance from Thomas Haden Church and a bunch of unlikable characters that we've seen before in other, better movies.

Web Exclusive: Paul Hogan to star in 'Charlie & Boots' -- Oz's new super federal funder Screen Australia has announced its first slate with 25 projects sharing $A86 million ($75 million) in coin.

Exec Shuffle: Station vet under contract through end of year -- Don Corsini is poised to resign as prexy and g.m. of CBS' Los Angeles O&Os KCBS/KCAL.

Sports News: Liu Xiang challenges stereotypes -- BEIJING — Handsome, media-friendly Liu Xiang is a hurdler who carried the hopes and dreams of 1.3 billion people on his shoulders, a man who was simply not supposed to lose.

Film Reviews: "Khamsa" marks a welcome return to form for director Karim Dridi, largely thanks to a superlative perf by non-pro juve lead Marc Cortes. In this "400 Blows"-type walkabout, the impetus is not flight but a desperate desire to go home again, home being a Gypsy encampment in Marseilles.

Front Page: Audiences desert rival networks for NBC -- Coverage of the Summer Olympics from Beijing helped NBC run circles around its competish last week, delivering what appears to be the most decisive weekly victory on record for any net.

DVD Reviews: Taking advantage of the many gaps in the timeline of the widely popular "Terminator" franchise, the first season of Fox's "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" jumps to and from the future, delivering moments of pure sci-fi action while also using the hourlong format to delve into character reflection.

Film Reviews: Rising helmer Malgoska Szumowska continues to mine semiautobiographical material with "33 Scenes From Life," but the results develop across emotional arcs in less than satisfactory ways.

Technology News: Beverly Hills conference set for Dec. 1 -- Beverly Hills is getting its own 3-D conference. Former Hollywood Reporter topper Bob Dowling is organizing 3D Entertainment Summit, a conference exploring business strategies for the emerging digital 3-D market. Confab is skedded for Dec. 1-2 at the BevHilton.

Labor Issues: Guild labors for improved 'Idol' -- In its first major post-strike campaign, the Writers Guild of America has completed a monthlong push to organize reality shows by targeting allegedly unfair working conditions on "American Idol."

Digital TV: Staff to visit cities with 15% analog TV users -- Coming soon to a town hall near you: the Federal Communications Commission with a message about how to survive the impending switch to all-digital television.

Legit Reviews: It may have taken this year's initial production, "Romeo and Juliet," to help the new artistic director find his footing, but the confident, assured and entertaining version of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" that Des McAnuff has mounted as the final show of this year's Stratford Shakespeare Festival season proves not only that he deserves the job but that it would be in everyone's best interests if he hangs around a long time.

TV Reviews: Margaret Cho has spent years rehashing the compromises demanded of her on the 1994 ABC sitcom "All-American Girl" -- the first to feature an Asian-American family. Yet rehabilitating her stand-up credentials apparently hasn't advanced her mastery of television -- at least, not based on this "reality sitcom," which arguably traffics in more stereotypes than her old series did.

Videogames News: Nothing can live up to almost a decade of hype, but "Too Human" is a disappointingly sub-standard role playing game buried under the debris of a thousand forgettable robots slain in a hundred vacant hallways by one man in a silly outfit.

TV Reviews: Like any niche cable network, Bravo has been hammering at its brand, with the net cranking out one fashion-lifestyle showcase after another. Step back, though, and there's a mind-numbing sameness to Bravo's lineup -- one exemplified by this vehicle for Tabatha Coffey. Casting the "Shear Genius" hair maven as the equivalent of food-throwing chef Gordon Ramsay, "Salon Takeover" is another "diva to the rescue" exercise, destined to be followed in September by "The Rachel Zoe Project," a tiresome red-carpet saunter peering over the celebrity stylist's shoulder. Despite recent successes, it may be high time for Bravo to consider a facelift of its own.

Legit Reviews: Once we reach adulthood our concept of teen culture tends to oscillate between "High School Musical" and "Rebel Without a Cause." In most cases, our idea of youth theater is similarly narrow.

Film Reviews: The unexplained suicides of three young men in a small Tyrolean town hangs heavily over "March," Haendl Klaus' ponderous feature debut as helmer.

Legit Reviews: Shakespeare wrote "Romeo and Juliet" in about 1595 and Charles Gounod adapted it into an opera in 1867, but for his debut at the Salzburg Festival, director Bartlett Sher (whose "South Pacific" revival was the major Broadway event of the past season) sets the work in the late 18th century. No reason for the update is stated, but it certainly offers four-time Tony winner Catherine Zuber the opportunity for a dazzling, non-stop parade of richly detailed period costumes.

Book Reviews: With previous works titled "Filth," and "Porno," Irvine Welsh is one of the originals of transgressive fiction, not unlike a Scottish Chuck Palahniuk or Bret Easton Ellis. His newest novel, "Crime," doesn't deviate from that milieu, for in the past it has served him well. It's just that this time the shtick seems tiresome.

Film Reviews: French-Canadian sex dramedy "The 3 Little Pigs" offers a guaranteed solution to age-old hardships like financial woes, marital quarrels, and terminal illness: It's "Adultery, Actually."

Film Reviews: With enough toilet humor and schlocky gore to lure bloodthirsty viewers into its clutches, Gallic horror spoof "Vampire Party" satisfies as shamelessly campy entertainment.

Legit Reviews: An overnight sensation on the Edinburgh Fringe, "Once and for All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen" heads to London in October and is being courted by producers from Los Angeles to Dublin. Anyone who sees it will never look at street-corner gangs the same way again.

Legit Reviews: While it lacks the political and theatrical significance of its 1970 premiere with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, David Storey's "Home" still provides an opportunity for great actors to show how they can invest oblique characters with infinite color.