CULTURE

True Blood's fifth episode, Let's Boot And Rally, picks up where we left off last week - with Sookie and Alice about to get it on. I've waited so long for this, Alcide huskily tells her as he goes to take off his pants. Unfortunately the night won't go as he plans....

The Dark Knight Rises is hands-down the most widely hyped movie of the summer. Yet, for all the fanfare surrounding the film, there's a lot of mystery, too. It appears director Christopher Nolan has heard his fans' pleas for More, and released a 13-minute sneak preview of the coming blockbuster.

Estimates have The Amazing Spider-Man finishing the weekend atop the movie box-office standings, raking in $65 million in U.S. and Canadian sales. Overall, it has grossed $140 million since its U.S. release on July 3.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? high-profile divorce came as a surprise to some. The duo burst into a public love life with an oft-mocked appearance Cruise made on Oprah, which saw the actor hopping on couches and pumping his fists. But now their split has opened up new interest into how scientologists handle divorce.

Actress Holly Robinson Peete wrote an open letter criticizing the rapper, who regularly rhymes about killing people.

Angelina Jolie had not been photographed while wearing her engagement ring -- until now, that is!

The San Diego Comic-Con has a humble history. Founded in 1970 as a small, one-day convention in southern California, the first few events drew only a small number of collectors and comics enthusiasts, somewhere around 300 attendees. Then, somehow, some way, Comic-Con became the place to be.

Fictitious stories about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been rampant since they began filming Twilight in 2008.

Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis P. Zine wants pop sensation Justin Bieber arrested. On Friday morning, the 18-year-old star was pulled over for going speeds that Zine estimated at more than 100 mph.

While replicating a hit show can undoubtedly yield profitable results, the practice as a whole seems to produce far more misses than hits, particularly in today's era of increasingly fragmented viewing habits.

The CBGB Festival at Webster Hall in NYC turned violent Friday night when founding bassist of the Co-Mags, Harley Flanagan took out a knife in the VIP balcony area.

Jessica Simpson posted her first family picture after the Fourth of July, with fireworks displayed in the background. Simpson tweeted this message on Thursday along with the picture, Hope everyone had a great 4th!!

The cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has finally returned to Atlanta to begin shooting season four, and by the looks of a photo on Twitter, an old (and dead) character is returning - maybe.

Actress Natalie Wood is finally getting some sort of rest after her mysterious 1981 demise. The Los Angeles County Coroner has changed the cause of death on Wood's certificate from accident to undetermined.

A choice few critics got the very first glimpse at Christopher Nolan's coming The Dark Knight Rises on Friday . And it looks like it's good. So good in fact that the film received a standing ovation.

Chantal Marshall has a bra size of 32GG -- and hopes her 14-year-old daughter Britney will follow in her footsteps.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill offering relief to millions of American college students. The measure will keep the interest rate for subsidized federal loans at 3.4 percent. The law will benefit about 7.4 million college students.

Is it October yet? AMC's The Walking Dead may be months away, but thanks to Comic-Con we have a new preview of season three.

Fans of AMC's hit show Breaking Bad will have to wait only another week or so for the season-five premiere of the show on July 15. The season promises to be the craziest one yet.

The actors from Happy Days had claimed that CBS owed them back pay from DVD sales and other worldwide merchandise. The case was one of a series of recent legal spats involving former television stars who have sued for such pay.

Sony has finally revealed the release date for its ?PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale,? which is expected to be the Sony equivalent to Nintendo?s ?Super Smash Bros.? franchise. The fighting game mash-up will be available on Oct. 23 in the United States, Oct. 24 for most of Europe Oct. 26th for United Kingdom players.

In his latest opinion piece for the Washington Times, Nugent blasts Chief Justice John Roberts for his vote legalizing the Affordable Care Act. It's a pretty standard piece for the right-wing rocker. Nugent calls Roberts a traitor, proclaims the end of liberty as we know it, and pretty much everything else you would expect from an angry right wing rant. Except there is one paragraph that sets it apart: Nugent apparently wishes that the South had won the Civil War.

Justin Bieber was given a ticket early Friday morning after he was pulled over by two Los Angeles police for driving over 100 miles per hour on a freeway is his chrome drenched Fisker Karma sports car, TMZ reported.

One standout film at South By Southwest this year was undoubtedly The Do-Deca-Pentathlon. Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, two notable bed head cinema figures, the uplifting indie is both hilarious and touching.

At first glance TWELV magazine's cover photo catches attention for the vibrant colors featured on a rainbow dress, but upon closer look the observer comes to realize that the dress is in fact made from an assortment of gummy bears.

Given their potential to breathe life into a stale property, reboots will only continue. But they're not just for superheroes anymore. Here are five unlikely, unbelievable or just plain unnecessary reboots in the works.

It's no surprise that when Katy Perry's movie Katy Perry: Part of Me hit theaters on July 5 it was going to excite her fans -- who wouldn't be enamored with a colorful on-stage spectacular mixed with behind the scenes hilarity and personal anecdotes to give the movie some backbone? Let's celebrate with 10 little known facts about Katy Perry.

Happy National Fried Chicken Day! Friday, July 6, is the day to indulge in your love for fried chicken, whether it's some Kentucky Fried Chicken or your own special recipe.

We've all seen her in her workout gear of short shorts and skimpy midriff-baring tops, prompting many to believe that her weight loss is borderline dangerous. But despite her pin-thin frame seen in recent photos that sparked she's anorexic and she's too skinny chatter, Miley Cyrus is fit and healthy, according to her Pilates instructor and trainer, Mari Winsor.