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'Twin Peaks' revisited: 'Maybe we shouldn't have solved the mystery'
The wait is over for 'Takers' director John Luessenhop
Britney Spears goes anime as Lady Gaga takes Brit's Twitter crown
'The Biggest Loser': Paying it forward in Season 10
Book review: 'Empire of Dreams' by Scott Eyman
Report: Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab after 23 days [poll]
From here to Moorpark: Ex-Marine drills Hollywood in weapons and tactics
Rosanne Cash walks her own line
'Going the Distance': On the red carpet with Drew Barrymore, Justin Long and Christina Applegate
Man arrested outside Paris Hilton's home

'Twin Peaks' revisited: 'Maybe we shouldn't have solved the mystery'

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 06:29 PM PDT

The quirky TV series hit network television with the impact of a meteor 20 years ago and can now be seen as the harbinger of numerous trends.

The wait is over for 'Takers' director John Luessenhop

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Luessenhop had to drop the heist-film project five years ago to care for his gravely ill son. Screen Gems stood by him, and it will be released Friday.

Time waits for no man. And Hollywood's patience is even shorter.

Britney Spears goes anime as Lady Gaga takes Brit's Twitter crown

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT

This week in "Pop Wars: Lady Edition" -- Britney Spears aims at anime-loving hearts, and Lady Gaga expands her cultural reign by dominating Twitter.

'The Biggest Loser': Paying it forward in Season 10

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:16 PM PDT

Many of this season's 21 contestants say The Biggest Loser Ranch located outside L.A. is truly their last-ditch effort to lose weight.

Book review: 'Empire of Dreams' by Scott Eyman

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

A biography of American film icon Cecil B. DeMille

You don't have to be much of a film buff to know you're in for a particular treat when you open Scott Eyman's remarkable new biography of the American cinema's iconic director and find a prologue that opens: "On the morning of May 23, 1949, at the Paramount studio on Marathon Street in the heart of Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille was busily engaged in polishing Billy Wilder's dialogue."

Report: Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab after 23 days [poll]

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:09 PM PDT

Lohan was released from rehab Tuesday, a little more than three weeks after leaving jail and entering treatment, Radar Online reports.

From here to Moorpark: Ex-Marine drills Hollywood in weapons and tactics

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:58 PM PDT

Hollywood has always attracted entreprenurial veterans looking to trade on their technical expertise gained in the services.

Rosanne Cash walks her own line

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Johnny Cash's daughter, a star in her own right, is revealing and honest without being salacious in her new memoir.

When it comes to cannily delivering a punch line, neither Russell Brand nor Jay Leno has anything on singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash. Arriving at New York hospital about four years ago for brain surgery to relieve long-misdiagnosed chronic pain, a nurse asked her what she was in for.