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Several years ago, Colin Meloy stumbled on "The Crane Wife" in the children's section of a bookstore where he worked. Meloy, the leader of experimental pop outfit The Decemberists, says...

Kim Raver's got a thing for numbers. She made it through five years of the gritty police drama "Third Watch" and two seasons and counting of ramped-up thriller "24." Now...

The lights are low, and Percy Sledge croons "When a Man Loves a Woman" as Rochelle Scott talks business. She wears a tasteful suit and speaks softly. In one hand,...

Keith Urban "LOVE, PAIN & THE WHOLE CRAZY THING" RATING: 3 1/2 SOUND LEVELS Keith Urban made news recently with his sprint into alcohol rehab, public apology to wife Nicole...

According to surveys, when "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" opens Friday, you are either already in on the joke or have no idea...

Who's in it: Sacha Baron Cohen What it's about: Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Cohen) crisscrosses the U.S. in his quest to marry America's one-time leading cultural export: Pamela Anderson. Worth...

Who's in it: Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerova, Pavel Novy What it's about: Jean (Liska) is suffering from horrendous dreams of being menaced by bald guys with straitjackets, and...

Sofia Coppola pulled off one of history's great filmmaking coups for "Marie Antoinette." She gained permission to shoot the film at the sprawling playground of French royalty, the Palace of...

On a $40 million budget, director Sofia Coppola tried her best to approximate the decadent lives of French royals for "Marie Antoinette." The movie doesn't skimp on exposing the teenage...

You make a movie about Marie Antoinette--one that concentrates on the "fun years" at Versailles before the French Revolution put an end to all of that--and some critics are bound...