We all know "It's a Wonderful Life" and the Ralphie-cutesiness of "A Christmas Story" but here are a trio of lower-key yuletide movies to check out.

He starred in the Ziegfeld Follies with Fanny Brice and Josephine Baker in the 1930s, traveled the Vaudeville circuit as one half of a dancing team, and made more than 60 movies, including seven Road pictures with his pal Bing Crosby.

West Hollywood may have that annual spooky spectator spectacle known as the Halloween Costume Carnaval, but for the ultimate Tinseltown trick-or-treating experience, you can't beat Toluca Lake.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony in March, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

The 2009 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival continues at various venues around town.

What is a Zombie? >> Posted By Sludge-Guzzler 5 hours, 54 minutes ago in Humor > Because Halloween is quickly approaching, I give you Bob Hope who delivers the best, most accurate, and funniest line ever.

For movies fans, these "Pre-Makes" are trailers from movies that never were. They all answer questions such as these: What if Indiana Jones had been filmed in 1951 with Charlton Heston as Indy? What if Forrest Gump had been filmed in 1949 with Jimmy Stewart as Forrest? What if Ghost Busters had been filmed in 1954 with Bob Hope, Fred McMurray and ...

Over 23 years and counting in the Oak Room of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, Andrea Marcovicci has mastered the delicate art of cabaret.

Joyce Cooling promises she'll still be entertaining. "I won't run my mouth or yammer on and on," the contemporary jazz guitar player, songwriter and vocalist said.

Curvaceous and statuesque, Anita Ekberg utilized her natural attributes to win the Miss Sweden contest in 1951.

Join the Tri-Cities Historical Museum for their September's Curator's Choice Movie Night at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

The Greater Los Angeles Area USO invites golfers and USO supporters to play in the fifth annual USO Celebrity Golf Tournament on Thursday at Trump National Golf Course.

Larry Gelbart, who created the classic TV adaptation of Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" and whose talented comedy writing stretched from the days of radio to the big screen and cutting-edge cable shows, died of cancer at his Beverly Hills home on Friday.

A New Generation Films and North by Northwest Entertainment presentation of an Oy Vey My Son Is Gay production.

SAUNTERING ON Back in the late Thirties, Bob Hope and his writers created two a oeBob Hopesa , two public personae that kept him in business for the next six decades.

Many people consider Labor Day the end of summer, but some central Ohio film fans mark their calendars by the film series at the Ohio Theatre.

THE KING of the wisecracks made more than 70 films during his remarkable career.

Lenny Bruce was a comedian before he was a chapter in the history of American obscenity law.

Last fall, a reader of By Hand from New York state e-mailed that she was seeking suggestions for making a T-shirt quilt.

In an industrial yard tucked behind Burbank's Bob Hope Airport, dozens of orange forklifts and 135-foot-high aerial booms stand idle, gleaming in the afternoon sunlight.