ENTERTAINMENT

More than a thousand antique automotive toys will go on the block this week as Donald Kaufman, whose family founded KB Toys, auctions off his private collection.

A new Michael Jackson single called This Is It will hit the airwaves on October 12, two weeks before it is available as part of a two-disc album released by the late pop star's record label.

The Lion will try to get its distribution roar back this weekend, but its female-targeting musical Fame will have to fend off a couple other wannabe kings of the box-office jungle.

It's shake-up time for Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested on Thursday following a complaint that they had not paid a hotel bill of more than $10,000, according to U.S. authorities.

Actor Brad Pitt was honored on Thursday for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former U.S. President Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative.

Pearl Jam is on course to nab its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart in 13 years next week.

Character actor Ken Howard was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild on Thursday, the union said, four days after he won an Emmy for the HBO TV movie Grey Gardens.

Surrogates is a movie about human robots that appears to have been made by human robots. Just as the dystopian world the movie portrays is arid and specious, the movie itself is a mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions. It functions as an expensive place-filler on the Disney release schedule and, as such, will be welcomed by only the least discriminating thriller fans after it opens Fr...

As ailing showbiz mogul Dick Clark prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday in November, a new documentary threatens to tarnish his image by recounting his controversial beginnings.

Watch out Britney, Octomom and Paris! Shows spoofing your fame are piling up faster than celebrity magazines in a hair salon, and they include a stage musical and animated TV programs.

Makenzie Philips was interviewed in the Today Show this morning where she spoke about her incestuous relationship with her father.

Sony Pictures is orchestrating an unprecedented preview ad campaign for 2012, the latest disaster film from Roland Emmerich.

He-Man may have found a new home.

Few screenwriters exemplified the renaissance in Hollywood filmmaking that took place in the 1970s more than Robert Towne.

Film director Richard Attenborough is auctioning part of his collection of British paintings, including one he sold to help finance Oscar-winning movie Gandhi and which he bought back years later.

Belgian tenor Helmut Lotti has done Elvis, sung crossover classical music, crooned to stadium audiences across the globe, and even belted out Latino and African hits.

A new Michael Jackson song, This Is It, will be released as a single on October 12, Sony Music Entertainment announced Wednesday.

KISS, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, the Hollies, LL Cool J and Jimmy Cliff are first-time contenders for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers said Wednesday.

Mexico has selected Carlos Carrera's crime thriller Backyard as its foreign-language Oscar contender for the 82nd Academy Awards.

Hollywood screens are usually populated by Barbies, but now the real Barbie is on her way to the big screen.

Jay-Z led the U.S. pop chart for a second week on Wednesday, while Whitney Houston's recent chart-topper rebounded one place to No. 2 after receiving a big sales boost from her Oprah Winfrey Show appearance.

CW television announced its new reality docu-series called Fly Girls set to debut mid-season.

U2 is performing tonight at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey for its 360° Tour which critics have called one of the best stadium shows of the last decade, according to Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot.

ObamaVision -- the term coined by the media to sum up President Barack Obama's pledge to bring hope and change to America -- was on Wednesday deemed the most influential English word from television in 2009.

John Travolta frantically tried to save his son by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the actor told a Bahamian court on Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from him.

Actress Mackenzie Phillips said in a memoir published on Wednesday that she had an incestuous affair for years with her father John Phillips, the late singer with 1960s band The Mamas & the Papas.

Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing dashed speculation on Wednesday that he once had an affair with Lady Diana, saying his novel about a romance between a French leader and a British princess was pure fiction.

Actor John Travolta acknowledged Wednesday that his son Jett, 16 who died in January, had autism and suffered from a seizure disorder.