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'Idol' Chicago auditions: slim pickings
Sundance's eternal conflicts: commerce and art
'Drag Me to Hell' for best picture? Deadline looms for Oscar voters
Grammy countdown: Is Eminem's 'Relapse' a lock for best rap album?
Envelope Directors Roundtable: 'The scene I had to cut'
Polanski's prosecutors motivated by politics, not justice, his attorneys assert
O'Brien exit talks stall on compensation for staffers
SAG, AFTRA ready to make up
Amy Winehouse pleads guilty to assaulting theater manager at Christmas show

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:12 PM PST

Despite the drama of a fainter (Amy Lang, above) and crying fits, the Windy City did not blow in a lot of talent.

Sundance's eternal conflicts: commerce and art

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

This film festival is an institution that walks the line between two competing notions of what a celebration of cinema should be.

This film festival is an institution that walks the line between two competing notions of what a celebration of cinema should be.

'Drag Me to Hell' for best picture? Deadline looms for Oscar voters

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:47 PM PST

As time grows short, voters have a hard time coming up with 10 films to nominate.

Grammy countdown: Is Eminem's 'Relapse' a lock for best rap album?

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:53 PM PST

Three of the last five years, the best rap album went to Kanye West.

Three of the last five years, the best rap album went to Kanye West.

Envelope Directors Roundtable: 'The scene I had to cut'

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 07:35 AM PST

Jason Reitman and more talk about scenes that will never see the light of day.

Polanski's prosecutors motivated by politics, not justice, his attorneys assert

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

The film director's lawyers are asking a judge to allow him to be sentenced in absentia to time served in a 1977 child-sex case.

Roman Polanski's lawyers suggested in a legal filing Tuesday that prosecutors were motivated by politics and not justice in opposing the film director's request to be sentenced in absentia in a three-decade-old child-sex case.

O'Brien exit talks stall on compensation for staffers

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

NBC dismisses the 'Tonight Show' host's demands as 'a PR ploy.' Many of the employees who are about to lose their jobs followed O'Brien to L.A. from New York.

Negotiations over Conan O'Brien's departure from NBC stalled Tuesday over the "Tonight Show" host's demands that NBC compensate staff members who will lose their jobs when the show goes off the air.

SAG, AFTRA ready to make up

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

A key recommendation Sunday could bring the two actors unions closer to joining forces again for contract negotiations.

Hollywood's squabbling actors unions appear to be ready to bury the hatchet.