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Meryl Streep's daughter Grace Gummer is set to star in a television drama about the chaotic life of being a Hollywood "It" kid, marking Gummer's first big break into the acting industry.

18 ** So long and thanks for all the sheep: series finale of Aussie outback drama McLeod's Daughters airs Nov.

The cover of the Dave Eggers novel "Zeitoun," which inspired Jonathan Demme to adapt it as a cartoon.

Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in an Arthur Miller play. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Lost in Translation, is to make her Broadway debut later this year in the Arthur Miller play A View From the Bridge .

Last night, surrealist singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock officially closed the week-long Indie Memphis Film Festival with a sold-out concert at Studio on the Square.

Johanna Schneller Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 2:37PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

Video Event of the Week: Could Universal's DVD and Blu-ray versions of Drag Me to Hell , a return to his horror flick roots from Spiderman director Sam Raimi , possibly qualify? Might Palm Pictures Blu-ray upgrade of Stop Making Sense , the 1984 Jonathan Demme/Talking Heads concert film, conceivably make the grade? Or against every recognized ...

MSNBC's superstar, the smart funny and enlightening Rachel Maddow , is obsessed with all things political... so maybe it's no surprise that she loves The Manchurian Candidate .

Author Jackie Collins is 72. Author Anne Rice is 68. Actress Susan Sarandon is 63.

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto presents the world premiere of Sammy, a new musical based on the life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

By John Beifuss , Memphis Commercial Appeal Friday, September 18, 2009 Renowned British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock -- whose sometimes surreal songs about sex, death, fish, reptiles, spiders, prawns and other alternately odd and familiar subjects have earned comparisons to John Lennon and Bob Dylan -- will close this year's Indie Memphis Film ...

As the '60s began, we elected John F. Kennedy, a man who might as well have been a movie star, as President.

Barack Obama: Could his powers of indoctrination be overestimated? What are your favorite pop-culture moments in mind control? President Barack Obama will be on television and in the classrooms next week.

This week's Icon is one of the oldest troopers in showbiz. Angela Lansbury has been entertaining TV, theatre and movie audiences since the 1940s, most notably in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Beauty and the Beast , and the 1962 classic The Manchurian Candidate .

This weekend: 'Mad Men,' 'Psych,' 'Monk,' 'True Blood,' 'Merlin,' Miss Universe, Gene Hackman, Angela Lansbury, Don Hewitt The most notable offering this weekend? The smashing second episode of " Mad Men" at 10 p.m. Sunday on AMC.

All films are showing on the Turner Classic Movies channel. Sunday, August 23 The Manchurian Candidate Directed by John Frankenheimer.

This weekend: 'Mad Men,' 'Psych,' 'Monk,' 'True Blood,' 'Merlin,' Miss Universe, Gene Hackman, Angela Lansbury, Don Hewitt The most notable offering this weekend? The smashing second episode of " Mad Men" at 10 p.m. Sunday on AMC.

If you thought bad buzz and bad reviews would take the pop out of the popcorn-picture debut of a 1980s toy icon, you forgot one thing: It's G.I. Joe, man! G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ruled the weekend box office with a $56.2 million debut, its studio estimated.

If you thought bad buzz and bad reviews would take the pop out of the popcorn-picture debut of a 1980s toy icon, you forgot one thing: It's G.I. Joe, man! G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ruled the weekend box office with a $56.2 million debut, its studio estimated.

On several different occasions during the past presidential campaign I made the following observation: What a fascinating show future president Obama is putting on! It will be even more fascinating to discover whether he is: a) Jimmy Stewart, in Mr.