CULTURE

Jay Leno and Jeff Zucker have been thinking a lot about TiVo lately. And, at least in the case of the NBC Universal boss, not entirely in a good way.

He writes, he sings, he sometimes exchanges blows in the boxing ring. But Bob Dylan is also familiar with another type of canvas as a quietly prolific painter.

The Beatles boasted some of the best-selling albums on the U.S. pop chart on Wednesday after nostalgic fans scooped up the Fab Four's much-hyped reissues.

Singer Whitney Houston said in an interview aired on Tuesday that she is drug-free as she embarks on a career comeback, and that her faith guides her through her ongoing fight to stay clean.

Taylor Swift appeared Tuesday on ABC's The View to say she would accept an apology from Kanye West after his outburst at the MTV VMA Awards.

President Barack Obama will appear on comedian David Letterman's late-night talk show next week, the CBS network said on Tuesday.

The hotly anticipated follow-up to author Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was released on Tuesday amid positive reaction from critics but the American novelist admitted he was under pressure to sell well.

The storming success of World War Two shoot-'em-up Inglorious Basterds is the ticket out of financial difficulty for its backers, the Weinstein Co., director Quentin Tarantino said on Tuesday.

British star Clive Owen has specialized in playing macho men in two decades of movies and television: tough, taciturn and unshaven, with long stares from smoldering gray-green eyes.

A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers plunged the world into financial meltdown and jolted the foundations of capitalism, business students don't just want to learn how to maximize profit for shareholders and themselves.

Jay Leno launched his NBC prime-time TV talk show on Monday -- a venture whose success or failure is being closely watched by the industry -- with familiar offerings including a topical monologue and chats with fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld and a repentant Kanye West.

The Italian press, which before the Venice Film Festival had celebrated the high number of Italian films in the festival's official selection, has gone into a period of soul searching and finger pointing after Italian films were for the most part excluded from the event's major prizes.

Singer Whitney Houston said in an interview aired on Monday that life with former husband Bobby Brown descended into a nightmare of drugs and fights, and that at one point he painted evil eyes on the walls of their home.

Pathetic. Desperate. Lame.The Seinfeld reunion its creators swore would never happen for the aforementioned reasons finally takes place next month.

Author Dan Brown may have outraged the Vatican in The Da Vinci Code, but his new book, The Lost Symbol, is being welcomed by his latest subjects, the Freemasons.

Having conquered movies, Keanu Reeves is now taking on the Internet.

Kiefer Sutherland is to head a new actors conservatory at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Center in Toronto.

Actor Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a smoldering dance instructor in Dirty Dancing made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Oprah Winfrey said she is looking forward to get the first interview with Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl whose story shocked the nation after she was rescued alive 18 years after living kidnapped with captor Phillip Garrido.

When it comes to generating Oscar buzz, a film like Precious could do far worse than having Oprah Winfrey's backing

Singer Whitney Houston described her ex-husband Bobby Brown as my drug and told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast on Monday that her mother saved her by forcing her into a drug treatment program.

A new wave of documentaries at this year's Toronto International Film Festival poses a disturbing question: is environmental and social disaster on a global scale imminent and perhaps inevitable?

Beyonce gave up her time to give an acceptance speech at the MTV VMA's Sunday night to allow singer Taylor Swift end her own speech which earlier was spoiled by an abrupt interruption of rapper Kanye West.

So far, so impressive. After only a handful of fall premieres, broadcasters already have two reasons to celebrate: Fox's Glee and the CW's The Vampire Diaries debuted to strong numbers last week, suggesting that perhaps the coming weeks won't be a repeat of last fall's disappointing returns.

Kanye West abruptly interrupted Taylor Swift when she was giving her acceptance speech after winning an award for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday.

The first half-hour of The Invention of Lying, co-directed and co-written by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, is so sharply fresh, clever and laugh-out-loud hilarious that you can't help but wonder how they'll sustain it for another hour.

Call it Toronto: Next Gen. This year's crop of Toronto films feature a high number of features directed by the progenies of famous directors and other high profile parents.

Designer Tom Ford makes a surprisingly successful leap from the fashion industry to the big screen with A Single Man, a standout directing debut about a gay college professor who loses his longtime partner.

Director Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs cast has swollen a bit further.