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THR: Sarandon was interviewed by Bob Balaban at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor on Saturday. She said she sent the pope a copy of the anti death penalty book, Dead Man Walking, authored by Sister Helen Prejean. Sarandon

Robert Davi won’t be getting one-on-one time with President Barack Obama any time soon. After all, the respected character actor turned crooner’s politics don’t exactly align with those of the Commander in Chief. But Davi still has a few practical

Brent Bozell: In an interview on the Catholic cable channel EWTN, Estevez joked about the horror of making the pitch for this movie about a pilgrimage – no massive special effects, no parade of gore or bedroom scenes with nudity.

HuffPo: Obama Poster Contest Angers Design Community: It’s ‘The Opposite Of Jobs’ President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign recently launched a poster contest, inviting artists from across the country to submit designs in support of the president’s $447 billion jobs plan

Screen Rant: Onetime stuntmen-turned-filmmakers Mike “Mouse” McCoy and Scott Waugh hope to recreate the real-life experience of Navy SEALs with extreme accuracy onscreen in Act of Valor, an upcoming war thriller that boasts a cast composed primarily of (appropriately) actual

It took about a week for the suits at Universal to change their minds on including ‘Tower Heist’ on select Video on Demand services. On Oct. 5, The LA Times’ blog Company Town announced the film studio would be making

Kanye “Occupies Wall Street” wearing $1,000 jeans Excellent piece at Celebrity Net Worth: #1 Yoko Ono Net Worth – $500 million. Ono stated “I love ‘Occupy Wall Street’! John is sending his smile to ‘Occupy Wall Street’. I am sending

L.A. Times: An adoptive mother is using an online advocacy platform to distribute a petition calling on the producers of Fox’s “Glee” to create a public service announcement that would offset what she calls “harmful” inaccuracies in an adoption-based story

Aging crooner Harry Belafonte wants us to know Herman Cain is one “bad apple,” someone for whom prayers weren’t created. Belafonte, hitting the talk show circuit to promote his new memoir ‘Sing Your Song,’ blasted the Republican presidential candidate on

Those corporate fat cats in Hollywood just got another tax break, courtesy of Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown. Variety reports Brown signed a bill late Sunday, the legislation’s final day of eligibility, extending California’s film production incentive program for another year.

America’s biggest import, by far, its biggest influence on the global community is itself. Its values, its ideals, its ridiculously inflated opinion about itself. Its idea of celebrity … And how is this export disseminated? Movies, TV, music. You are

Via the Left-wing Politico (we read it so you don’t have to): “Hank Williams and what he is going through now, I think it’s a very clear illustration of a greater societal problem and that is the hypocrisy on the

Morgan Freeman may want to hold his tongue the next time he thinks about calling the Tea Party ‘racist.’ Freeman, currently co-starring in ‘Dolphin Tale,’ made that accusation last month in the run up to his film’s release. And while

NBC Sports: Though ESPN’s decision to yank Hank Williams, Jr. from the opening theme music to Monday Night Football initially seemed to be a one-week suspension, it’s a little more permanent than that. OK, it’s a lot more permanent than

R.I.P. an American visionary who changed the world… —– New York Times: Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com —– Via Fox Nation: “Samuel L. Jackson, I guess, disregards the 16.7 percent unemployment rate in the black community, a 20 percent unemployment rate for black adult males and a 45-46 percent unemployment for

You’ve heard the last from director Lars von Trier – at least outside of what he has to say on the big screen. TheWrap.com reports von Trier, the combustible filmmaker behind “Dogville,” “Antichrist” and the upcoming “Melancholia,” released a statement

This morning Big Hollywood published a piece co-authored by our own Liberty Chick and Adam Baldwin critical of a Wisconsin university’s decision to force a theatre professor to remove two posters from his office door. This afternoon, the university in

Read on as actor Mark Ruffalo expertly twists all the meaning out of words like “American,” “democracy,” and “equality.” The Guardian: I have spent the last two days at the Occupy Wall Street gathering. It was a beautiful display of

—- In case you missed last night’s episode, here’s what looks to be a very well-written scene from this Emmy award-winning show. And, even better, a very simple statement of fact: “Breitbart owned the Weiner scandal.” No snide asides, no

—– NSFW … obviously.

—– Screen Rant: The wait is almost over for season 2 of AMC’s breakout hit The Walking Dead, and the promotion machine has gone into overdrive. The new trailer “Hope Survives” lets the characters shine and puts the undead on

USA Today: The team behind 24 has a new take on terrorism in Homeland, premiering Sunday on Showtime (10 ET/PT). The show revolves around two damaged protagonists: Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine sniper missing in Iraq since 2003 and

The Wrap just released the news that GLAAD’s head counting shows fewer disabled characters on television this year. Earlier today GLAAD released the news that there are fewer gays and lesbian characters on television. Later today we’re expecting the GLAAD

Is Morgan Freeman afraid to challenge his bigoted preconceptions or will he accept a gracious invitation from a fan, national tea party organizer Ali A. Akkbar? Via Tea Party Brew: Dear Mr. Freeman, My name is Ali Akbar. I’m a

Obama’s presidency is such a failure, even hipsters show him the hand. New York Post: President Obama’s re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them

Via The Ticket: On the heels of presidential candidate Herman Cain’s win in the Florida straw poll last weekend, the radio host Dennis Miller announced Monday that he’s endorsing Cain for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Miller, who mentioned his

Via FSR: Killer Elite begins by stressing that what on the surface appeared to be little more than a run-of-the-mill Jason Statham-Clive Owen action flick is in fact a serious evocation of the chaotic geopolitical scene circa 1980, and based

Gregory Solman in CityArts Forum: The deserved box-office disaster of Sony’s Straw Dogs remake–the South, as well as everywhere else, rising up against this species of estranged Hollywood elitism–merits a variation on Variety‘s most famous headline: “Stix Nix Prix Pic.”

Michael Moore Says America is Cruel & Delusional Thinking We Are Number One from Naked Emperor News on Vimeo. “…there are people like him and Warren Buffet and others who realize that if we don’t do something to make this

Guys Adams in The Independent: After two seasons behind one of the nation’s most talked-about programmes and with two Golden Globes, four Emmys, and 10 million viewers under its belt, the musical drama’s creators are aiming their satirical howitzers at

Associated Press: The Emmys keep buying what “Mad Men” is selling. The 1960s Madison Avenue saga won its fourth consecutive best drama series award Sunday, while big-hearted romp “Modern Family” claimed its second best comedy trophy. “Modern Family” producer Steve

The 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, tonight at 8ET/5PT on Fox.

Film critic Roger Moore (no right winger) in the Orlando Sentinel: Equal measures smug and savage, Rod Lurie’s infuriating remake of Sam Peckinpah’s vengeance thriller “Straw Dogs” still packs a visceral punch. An exploitation picture built on redneck cliches and

—– The idea here is to paint conservatives as prudes and hold tight to that narrative at all costs. The idea here is to pretend there was no legitimate reason for opposing Common’s White House invitation. When the Left rose