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Helmers Julie Taymor, Harold Becker, Terry Gilliam and Amos Gitai, and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover and Angela Molina are among the latest additions to the long list of career recognition recipients expected on the Italian isle of Capri for the 14th annual Capri, Hollywood Film Festival.

I met Tom Cruise once. Well, I say I met him, but really I was just standing in the press line at the premiere of one of his movies, where "Tom's People" put journalists in a little cage in Leicester Square, and walk Tom past, while fans throw their babies at him.

Sometimes, Chris Matthews can be utterly brilliant. I vividly remember, from either 2000 or 2004, an interview he did with Ralph Nader.

" The sons of two Civil War veterans who fought for separate causes will meet for the first time over the unearthed remains of an unknown soldier, whose body never made it home from the battlefield 145 years ago.

Organizers of the Oct. 10 reinternment of a Civil War-era soldier found in May on a Columbia Avenue construction site will now have sons of veterans from both the Union and Confederate forces in attendance at the event.

Nine notes of some of the most recognizable music in movie history came courtesy of actor Ronny Cox's guitar-picking fingers.

Ronny Cox has acted alongside Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, and Eddie Murphy in his four decades in Hollywood.

Is it a Ghost, a Disembodied Voice, or the Creaking of an Old Building? Halloween is that time of year where all things spooky, spectral and supernatural capture our imaginations.

Forget Kevin Bacon. You want to play Six Degrees of Separation, use Timothy Hutton as your hub.

Click to see a photo gallery of Tom Cruise. Actor. Born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, on July 3rd, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to Mary and Thomas Mapother.

Talk about timely: The very first question Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton fielded in today's telephone press conference to promote the second season premiere on July 15 of his hit TNT show "Leverage" was about whether the cons-avenging-the-weak-against-the-Man premise was bound to be even more popular in this post-Bernie Madoff/automaker ...

Sean Penn has dropped out of two high-profile films: The Three Stooges remake, and the crime thriller Cartel.