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The New Group has announced two new productions for the 2013-14 season: The New York City premiere of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian , starring four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, Bill Pullman, Glenne Headly and Amy Madigan, and the world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's Intimacy .

You might have heard recently that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg lamented that the blockbuster was killing the movie industry, which is funny because they, you know, invented it.

In 2009, Nerida Ellerton and her husband Ken Clements, both professors in the Department of Mathematics at Illinois State University, were very excited when they discovered, in the archives of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, a leaf comprising two pages from a ciphering book prepared by a teenage Abraham Lincoln.

Stage and screen actor Francesca Annis talks about the cult of celebrity, going nude for Roman Polanski and the pressure of playing a famous beauty 'I get the feeling now that it's not about which actor is right for a particular part, but who's the most commercially successful' a Francesca Annis.

A couple of highly promising casting decisions have been made regarding two exciting upcoming pilots.

If it's him, it's going to be a letdown. For the better part of 40 years, the disappearance of former Teamsters President James Hoffa has been a source of fascination on par with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the aliens in Roswell, N.M. If the FBI finds and identifies his body, as agents are currently trying to do just outside Detroit, it will ... (more)

FBI, state and local authorities search for Jimmy Hoffa's body in a field in Oakland Township, Michigan, Monday, June 17, 2013.

CBSNews reports that legendary star of stage and screen, Barbra Streisand , voiced her opinion on the current state of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel.

The dinosaurs are on a rampage. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, the two filmmakers who are more responsible than any others for the blockbusterization of Hollywood, now consider themselves its victims and worry that the saturation point is near.

Actress-turned-activist JOANNA LUMLEY has ruled out a move into politics, insisting bureaucratic red tape would leave her wanting to "slit" her throat.

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Channel scored big when it decided to produce and air the docudrama "Killing Lincoln" based on the popular book by Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly and travel writer Martin Dugard about the assassination of America's 16th president at the hands of thespian John Wilkes Booth.

FOOTBALL fan and occasional actor Russell Crowe has shown he has a beautiful mind for politics, unleashing his support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Twitter this afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Corey Stoll and Mia Maestro in FX 's high-profile drama pilot The Strain , from Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse , which is being eyed for a 13-episode pickup.

Inspired from the sounds of Jimi Hendrix to Nirvana to The Smiths to Radiohead, Almost Free is the Detroit trio band that can be hard to pin into any one category of music.

The latest search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 in what law enforcement officials believe might have been an organized crime hit, brought investigators on Monday to an overgrown vacant field in suburban Detroit.

"Diagnosing Mary Todd Lincoln" will be presented Tuesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Northville Public Library.

Los Angeles, June 17 : Russell Crowe is set to attend 59th Taormina Film Festival where he will be honoured with the ongoing fest's Taormina Arte Award.

Legendary American actress, director, singer, producer, composer, philanthropist and activist Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary doctor of philosophy degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The ranks of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia competing for the Miss USA crown in Las Vegas was cut to 15 as the show got under way Sunday.

Shanghai, June 16 : Hollywood director Oliver Stone won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening ceremony of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival Saturday night.