Terry Armour

Hosting the Oscars is a heavy gig. Which is why Ellen DeGeneres talked to pal Chris Rock to prepare for her hosting duties on Sunday. Rock, who stars in the...

We happened upon Ralph Nader before a recent signing of his book "The Seventeen Traditions." We wanted to get his thoughts on how to improve the problem of voter apathy...

In "The Astronaut Farmer," Billy Bob Thornton stars as a rancher with a once-promising NASA career who decides to build--and launch--his homemade rocket. Virginia Madsen plays his supportive wife. Terry...

Are you ready for some football? Universal Pictures is looking for experienced football players--they must have played a minimum of two years in college--to be in the movie "The Express,"...

Hard to believe, but 23 years ago, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas edged out Gary Cole and Jimmy Smits for the roles that became household names: Crockett and Tubbs...

Those wacky kids at the Annoyance Theatre are rolling out the red carpet for 91-year-old Eugene Polley--the college dropout from Lombard who co-invented the first wireless TV remote control--for the...

Lost in the shuffle of the Super Bowl controversies--that Snickers ad, Prince's halftime performance and, uh, Rex Grossman--was the subtle editing of a popular cell phone commercial. Cingular recently cut...

We happened to catch up with Bill Maher on Friday--the day after former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died in Florida. Maher and other comedians have mined a lot of...

Joan Rivers and her Red Carpet coverage continues Sunday with "Joan & Melissa's Guide to the Grammys" on the TV Guide channel (there's also a fashion wrap-up special on Monday)....

We've all had bad jobs. And long before Virginia Madsen was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for "Sideways," the South Side native had a particularly nasty job as...