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Captain America will be a USO performer in the movie, director says
Opening day: 'Dear John' headed toward surprise win over 'Avatar'
'Caprica': A chat with Ron Moore about the sci-fi soap opera
George Stephanopoulos on the celebrity beat
The scene at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010
'Bad Girls of Film Noir'
Autistic boy saddles up 'Dear John'
Danish 'Terribly Happy' full of odd happenings

Captain America will be a USO performer in the movie, director says

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 06:03 PM PST

Opening day: 'Dear John' headed toward surprise win over 'Avatar'

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 11:15 AM PST

The reign of "Avatar" at the box office is ending a week earlier than expected.

'Caprica': A chat with Ron Moore about the sci-fi soap opera

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 10:58 AM PST

Instead of the normal full recap of "Caprica," we'll have an abbreviated one and get right to a Q&A with "Caprica" co-creator Ron Moore.

George Stephanopoulos on the celebrity beat

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The co-host of 'Good Morning America' talks about his new job duties.

The Clinton-aide-turned-political-journalist had some reservations about whether he would be the right person to replace Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The scene at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 04:40 PM PST

Sandra Bullock, Forest Whitaker and more.

'Bad Girls of Film Noir'

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The two-volume, eight-disc collection brings some overlooked femmes fatales out of the shadows.

When girls are good they are very good, but when they are bad they are even better. And during the height of the film noir genre in the 1940s and '50s, some of the juiciest roles for women were as femmes fatales in snappy B-movies. Sony's terrific two-volume "Bad Girls of Film Noir" DVD collections, due out Tuesday, offer eight scrappy samples featuring several female icons of the genre.

Autistic boy saddles up 'Dear John'

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:00 AM PST

The movie's livestock coordinator Dan Hydrick's challenge was teaching the child to ride.

Based on the novel by Nicolas Sparks, director Lasse Hallström's romantic drama "Dear John" follows the relationship between Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) and soldier John Tyree (Channing Tatum) as they communicate through love letters during seven years of military deployments. For John's scenes in the Middle East and Africa, livestock coordinator Dan Hydrick provided exotic background animals to give a sense of place.