CULTURE

Oscars 2012 Host: Billy Crystal? Best Moments From Past Years [VIDEO]

Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal has announced that he will host the 84th Academy Awards. While this news may dash the hopes of Twitter and Facebook users intent on a Muppets Oscars in 2012, this is Crystal's ninth time as host, and he has more than proved the ability to pull off hilarious skits. Watch Billy Crystal's best Oscars monologues, and let us know: Is he a good pick for Oscars 2012?
More news
IBTimes Logo

CBS, Chris Columbus bringing Rifleman back to TV

CBS is taking aim at a television classic.The network is rebooting the Chuck Connors series The Rifleman, the late-1950s ABC Western about Civil War vet and widower Lucas McCain, who takes his son and his hot-rodded Winchester rifle and settles in the New Mexico territory of North Fork, an individual familiar with the project confirms to TheWrap.
A portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is placed on the Federation Tower skyscraper in Moscow's new business district

Steve Jobs is most used name in media, 2011

Arab Spring and Royal Wedding were on Wednesday deemed the top phrases of 2011, while late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the year's top name, according to a global survey of the English language.
IBTimes Logo

Bradley Cooper drops out of Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Bradley Cooper isn't going Solo.The Hangover actor, who had been in talks to play the crime fighter Napoleon Solo in Warner Bros'. big-screen version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., will not play the role, TheWrap has learned.
IBTimes Logo

Oliver Platt, Edie Falco to host Gotham Awards

This year's Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the two major awards shows devoted to indie film, will be hosted by actors Oliver Platt and Edie Falco, the Independent Feature Project (IFP) announced on Wednesday.
IBTimes Logo

Glee gets ratings bump but NCIS leads CBS to win

As with many carnal matters, the much-ballyhooed sex-scene episode of Glee caused a rise -- ratings-wise, anyway -- on Tuesday night. And a modest boost for CBS' NCIS was enough to make it the top-rated show of the evening and help boost the network to an overall win Tuesday.
IBTimes Logo

Pedro AlmodÛvar discusses plastic surgery thriller

Director Pedro AlmodÛvar wasn't just thinking Alfred Hitchcock and Frankenstein when he made his new plastic-surgery-gone-amuck thriller The Skin I Live In, in which a doctor turns a man into a woman while thinking about another woman.
Actor Bill Murray (L) presents The Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence to David Letterman (R) at ''The Comedy Awards'' in New York City

Comedy Awards returning to New York City

Comedy elite like David Letterman, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Louis C.K. turned out for last year's inaugural Comedy Central Comedy Awards, and the network has announced the show will return to New York in 2012.
Cartoonist Bil Keane

Family Circus creator Bil Keane dies at age 89

The Family Circus creator Bil Keane, whose kid-friendly comic strip gave readers a funny version of his own life at home and became one of the most widely syndicated cartoon panels in the world, has died at age 89, his distributor said on Wednesday.
IBTimes Logo

Underwood, Paisley host Country Music Awards

It's routinely deemed country music's biggest night, so even the casual country music fan should find reason to tune in for the 45th annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night.
IBTimes Logo

Anderson renewed for second season

Anderson Cooper's syndicated daytime talk-show, Anderson, has been renewed for a second season by Fox Television Stations, distributor Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced.
CNN host Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan Leaving 'America's Got Talent'

Piers Morgan announced he is leaving his judge's seat on America's Got Talent next season in order to focus on other upcoming news events like the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
 Conrad Murray next to his attorney, J. Michael Flanagan, after his guilty verdict on  November 7, 2011.

Jackson's Doctor Says Unaware Singer Had Addictions

The doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death insists he was not the cause of the singer's death and denied that he was aware Jackson had an addiction problem when he began treating him.

Pages

IBT Spotlight

We Help Businesses Find B2B Service Providers They Can Trust.