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Jay Leno of “The Tonight Show” abides by a simple comedy credo: “Write joke. Tell joke. Collect check.” You can add two more items to his list – “Read headlines. Ignore party affiliation.” While David Letterman used his Monday night telecast

The creator of the “Star Wars” franchise is no longer in control of his own galaxy. George Lucas sold Lucasfilm, along with the celebrated space franchise, to Disney today for $4.05 billion. Yes, “billion” with a “b.” “I’ve always believed

Director Barry Levinson mined the intricacies of the male mind in “Diner” and maximized Robin Williams’ outsized talents in “Good Morning, Vietnam.” The veteran director has no idea how to make a horror movie, apparently. His first attempt, “Sphere,” proved

I’m no A-lister, but if someone asked me to star in a video for the President’s reelection campaign I’d probably comb my hair. I might even shave. Consider those grooming niceties while watching “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm in a

The 2012 version of Barack Obama in no way, shape or form resembles the 2008 model. Back then, Obama was about hope, change, bipartisanship, cheerful optimism and … well, distracting everyone from his actual record with all of the above.

The Washington Post – all the news that’s fit to scrub. Earlier this week, Breitbart News caught the Post erasing positive reader reviews for the documentary “Hating Breitbart” from its web site. The in-house Post critic trashed the film, but

It’s fair to say your average Madonna concert crowd overlaps nicely with President Barack Obama’s base. The Material Girl’s fans tend to be left of center, amendable to gay marriage and hardly prude when it comes to sexual high jinks.

The Obama administration initially blamed the Sept. 11, 2012 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi on a video that strongly criticized Islam. For days, we heard White House officials blast the film in question, and President Barack Obama even

Dreading being home for the holidays this year? Then cozy up to “Fanny, Annie & Danny,” out now on DVD. You’ll feel so much better about your own family dynamics you’ll ship a special gift to your sketchiest uncle. Writer/director

One of the flimsiest premises for a major motion picture in ages hits theaters with four Oscar winners, six separate stories and more rubber noses than a clown convention. “Cloud Atlas,” the ambitious telling of author David Mitchell’s 2004 novel,

Faith-based films need a new PR agent, says veteran actor Corbin Bernsen. The “L.A. Law” alum tells a story about a cocktail party where he told some peers he was looking for actors to star in a faith-friendly film he

You’d think a political satirist who knew the government had lied about the cause of an attack which left Americans dead would use humor to savage the powers that be. Not Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert. “The Colbert Report” host took a

Don’t you hate it when you meet the person who could be your soul mate but an asteroid is only weeks away from destroying the planet? There’s plenty of reason to view “Seeking a Friend for the End of the

One of the many joys of the Internet is giving voice to citizen journalists the world over. When it comes to movie reviews, it means your average ticket buyer can post his or her take on a title alongside the

John Cusack loves to stretch as an actor, eager to make us forget all about his Everyman roles in “Say Anything,” “High Fidelity” and even “Hot Tub Time Machine.” He’s no Poe, though. “The Raven,” available now on Blu-ray and

Director Declan O’Brien has no problem giving horror movie fans what they want. O’Brien, the director of three “Wrong Turn” features, routinely scours horror sites to find out what the fans demand in their blood-soaked genre. That usually means “over the

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a citizen journalist? Superman’s alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent no longer toils for The Daily Planet as of tomorrow. In the next issue of DC comics’

Talk show queen Ellen DeGeneres isn’t as politically outspoken as some of her peers. The newly minted Mark Twain Prize honoree must have been poll watching over the weekend, for she told the press she finds Mitt Romney scary and

Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark told us earlier this year in “The Avengers” he doesn’t play well with others. Now, we can see a little bit why as the first full trailer for the upcoming “Iron Man 3” hits the

A gaggle of celebrities, from Zach Braff to Sarah Silverman, weighed in on the third and final presidential debate last night. For this Hollywood crowd, the ideological song remains the same. Braff, the star of the long-running medical comedy “Scrubs,”

Raise your hand if you’re having a better year than Channing Tatum. The model turned actor scored big with the action comedy “21 Jump Street,” melted hearts with “The Vow” and proved he was more than his washboard abs in

There’s a reason why readers clamor for author Nelson DeMille’s John Corey. The anti-terror warrior gets the job done, ignores political correctness and never makes excuses for protecting his fellow Americans. In “The Panther,” DeMille’s sixth John Corey adventure, our

The Web site 90 Days, 90 Reasons is beyond parody. The site lets celebrities share all the reasons why we must reelect failed President Barack Obama. We’ve already endured some pretty inane ramblings on the site, but director David Lynch’s

The Romneys have what appears to be a beautiful marriage, one that held strong despite Mitt Romney’s ambitious political career and Ann Romney’s serious health woes. Bette Midler cares more about bashing the couple’s Mormon faith on the marriage front

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, who made a movie a few weeks back decrying the influence of millionaires’ money in the political process, should be outraged to learn of the latest money flowing into the current election cycle. Except the

Hollywood conservatives are hopeful for some real change in their industry. Fox News reports that the recent support given to Mitt Romney by stars ranging from Stacey Dash to Kelsey Grammer are due to a new sense of comfort right-leaning

Alec Baldwin continues to tease the possibility of running for elective office, despite the stacks of opposition research he’ll hand opponents if he carries through with the threat. One political gig the Long Island native often mentions is Big Apple

The Washington Post gave “Hating Breitbart” one and a half stars. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Conservative films routinely get trashed by movie critics, who may be even more Left leaning than traditional journalists. No small measure. The review itself is

Tyler Perry’s new film offers the kind of laughs that turn infectious. A giggle becomes a snort, which them blossoms into a broad, unchecked howl. Too bad Perry is playing a detective on the trail of a gruesome serial killer,

Author Nelson DeMille says we need a Churchillian leader to rally the West in the fight against global terrorism. President Barack Obama hardly qualifies, says DeMille, the best-selling author behind “The General’s Daughter,” “The Gold Coast” and the new terrorism

This “Housewife” isn’t just “Desperate.” She’s vulgar. Eva Longoria, one of Hollywood’s most ardent supporters of President Barack Obama and a co-chair of the president’s reelection campaign, took a dip in the gutter today on Twitter. She retweeted a gross

Celebrities breathed a sigh of relief last night as President Barack Obama didn’t repeat his lethargic debate performance from the previous presidential showdown. That wasn’t enough for some liberal stars. They had to profess their hate for GOP presidential candidate

“Hating Breitbart” introduces movie goers to the man the mainstream media despised for telling it like it is. The film, opening in select theaters Friday, will certainly be greeted with head nods and high fives by those who followed the

Those chatty penguins from the “Madagascar” franchise refuse to get old. “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted,” available today on Blu-ray, may feel at first like another trip to the money store. The animated franchise has a lock on young viewers,

The moment you use a Nazi reference in a political debate it means you’ve already lost. On screen, playing fast and loose with Nazi tropes can spell the same swift doom. Consider “Dead Snow,” a horrific in all the wrong

The press did all it could to ignore the political documentary “2016: Obama’s America.” Most movie critics didn’t bother to review it at first, and when they finally did they lazily called it propaganda or, in the case of Entertainment