OLIVIA WILDE plays mysterious doctor Thirteen on “House,” which is just now back for its fifth season. She used to be on “The Black Donnellys” and “The O.C.” We caught up with her on a day off — she was getting organized.
(LA Times)

Those who remember the 45-year-old French actress Emmanuelle Béart as the artist’s model in Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse (1991) or as the lovely shepherdess in Manon des Sources (1986) will surely be startled by the figure she casts at the end of her new film Vinyan, caked in mud, surrounded by feral, monstrous children, [...]

For someone constantly scrutinized for her slender frame, Keira Knightley knows how to stuff her face.

“I have food! That’s so good!” crows Knightley, surveying the spread before her. She jams chunks of a banana into her mouth and cheerfully recounts an earlier mishap with an ingestible. ”I was wearing really great trousers, but then I spilled [...]

Jamie Lee Curtis is recommending three novels whose movies she doesn’t believe measured up to the books, including ‘The Prince of Tides.’
While the actress does not directly compare the written works to the films, she does offer reading suggestions on her book review page on the Barnes & Noble website.
Of the novel Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, Jamie Lee says it [...]

Communications were down and the captain looked confused. “These computer guys are working in my office,” William Shatner muttered, “so I don’t know where we should go to talk.”
The 77-year-old was standing in the lobby of his Studio City office, which is lined with more photographs from his beloved equestrian pursuits than his interstellar acting career. He [...]

“When Audrey Hepburn and I were making the movie ‘The Children’s Hour’, she and I talked a lot about fashion designers because I didn’t know much about fashion,” says Shirley MacLaine. “She told me that I should play Coco Chanel. I disagreed because Chanel was little and scrunched-over and very short. And she said, ‘No, [...]

British actors Hugh Laurie and Christopher Lee have had their status as top Hollywood stars confirmed with entries in the Guinness World Records 2009.
The latest list of record-breaking achievements, which goes on sale on Wednesday, will see 86-year-old acting veteran Lee crowned Most Connected Living Actor.
A database created by the University of Virginia mapped the [...]

Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, a long-time member of the Montauk community, and Al Pacino star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenaline-fueled psychological thriller “Righteous Kill.” This is only the second time they have appeared on screen together, but [...]

Elizabeth Banks has what it takes to be a porn star or first lady. And she’ll be strutting her stuff as both on the big-screen within a two-week span.
On Oct. 17, Banks’s take on Laura Bush arrives with “W.,” Oliver Stone’s film biography of President Bush, played by Josh Brolin. On Oct. 31, Banks co-stars [...]

Nicole Kidman was named the most overpaid celebrity in Hollywood in the second annual list of least bankable stars by U.S. magazine Forbes, taking the top slot from fellow Australian Russell Crowe.
Kidman’s films were estimated to only earn $1 (57 pence) for every dollar the Oscar-winning actress was paid compared with $8 a year ago.
“The [...]