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With unemployment rising faster than Megan Fox's hemlines and gas prices oscillating like Tila Tequila's sexual preference, folks are canceling vacations and seeking cheaper alternatives.

Not taking to the open road this Fourth of July? The road-trip movie genre has endless offerings.

Easy Rider, starring Dennis Hopper, left, and Peter Fonda didn't portray the typical road trip.

We are made for human as well as divine relationship. Just as he did not make another animal for Adam we are not ultimately satisfied with less than human relationships.

Cruise will play a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman .

"I Love You, Man," opening this weekend, continues in earnest the Judd Apatow -engineered trend of celebrating male bonding in all of its reticence and awkwardness - and in a manner that's more intimate than your typical military or buddy-film fare.

"Dollars damn me," wrote Herman Melville at 30, $200,000 in debt with a family to feed.

To describe Carolina Central Railway president Bill Gray's career, PSNC Energy's Rusty Harris used the title of a movie from 1987 starring John Candy and Steve Martin - "Planes, Trains & Automobiles." "He's ...

If there's ever been an actor living off expired fame, it's Steve Martin. It's been more than a decade - possibly closer to two - since Martin headlined a truly amusing film.

White-haired American comic Steve Martin returns to the big screen this month as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in Pink Panther 2 . Starting out as a madcap standup in the 1970s, Martin worked his way through ...

I am - " Hercules!! I'm assured by the angry talkbackers that "Saturday Night Live" hasn't been funny in years and, anyway, they're not aware it's still on! Perhaps that changes tonight! Previously: 10.23.76 ...

Here's something to think about: If Gov. Blagojevich flies to Springfield on the state plane today to make the surprise closing argument at his impeachment trial, then sticks around town long enough to watch ...

Steve Martin has agreed to make his 15th appearance as host of the New York-based sketch comedy TV show Saturday Night Live , NBC said.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Comedy. Starring Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O'Donnell and Shirley Knight.

Q: Ever since I was a kid, I have heard of Black Bart. Was there really an Old West outlaw by that name? Or was he just another myth? - H.L., Boston, Mass.

Football has Cole Hardie's heart. It's his game. Starting this month, though, he could find himself flirting with another game altogether.

The object: The "movie blurbs" below are mashups: They're invented descriptions of what you'd get if you smashed two or more well-known movies together.

All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport.

Durham, the perfect English town John Flinn, Chronicle Staff Writer Amost unexpected sound greeted me as I pushed open the heavy oak door of the thousand-year-old cathedral in Durham: laughter.

The Port Orchard Chamber of Commerce has released a video about Port Orchard that is now posted on its Web site.