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To work under a big banner and with big star in the first break is a credit in itself. She worked with stars like Shahrukh Khan and Akshay Kumar and big banner like Yash Raj, even after possessing ...

Bassist and composer Christian McBride has penned an hour-long musical work inspired by leading figures of the civil-rights movement. Hear a 17-piece big band and gospel choir perform McBride's tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

Actress Anne Heche and actor boyfriend James Tupper have announced the sex of their first child.The couple is expected to have a baby boy, Heche's rep tells US magazine. This would be the second child for Anne, who has a six-year-old son, Homer, with former husband Coley Laffoon. Anne, who famously dated Ellen DeGeneres, met Tupper while working together on the set of their ABC show "Men in Trees."

Rob Halligan in studio working on album

Boy George is working in the prison canteen. The Culture Club singer, who is serving a 15-month sentence at north London's Pentonville Prison for falsely imprisoning a male escort, has landed a £6-a-week job serving food to his fellow inmates.

Inquirer art critic Edward J. Sozanski in recent years conducted two extensive interviews with Andrew Wyeth, who died Friday in Chadds Ford, where he had lived for all his 91 years. Here, Sozanski assesses Wyeth and his vision, and offers some fruits of their conversations.

2009 is only two weekends old, and has already produced two excellent weekends at the box office.After three movies opened around $20 million last weekend, no less than four movies will be close, or exceed that goal over the three-day part of the MLK weekend, and one of those has come from nowhere to top $30 million, and record the second-biggest opening weekend in January (see chart).That movie is Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a poorly-reviewed comedy starring Kevin James, which opened with $33.8 million Friday-Sunday, according to Sony's estimate, and is set to reach $40 million with Monday's numbers included.Sony puts the success down, at least in part, to James's extensive promotional efforts around the country.Maybe hard work does pay off, even in the movie business.

As DVD recorders become more popular and affordable, my email box is filled with many questions on what they are, how they work, and what they can be used for. In order to address the most common questions regarding DVD recorders, I am answering some general FAQs on the topic. On this page I answer the question: Can I record a DVD in Progressive Scan?

The question of how individuals square their consciences to survive - even thrive - in the worst regimes has long fascinated writers. Hannah Arendt went into the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961 determined to keep a cold, objective distance, to study the architect of the Holocaust and understand the moral meaning of his acts. Her landmark work on the subject coined the term 'the banality of evil' - the ability of ordinary people to carry out horrific acts. Gita Sereny addressed similar questions in her famous biography of Albert Speer. The same urge propels Anglo-american journalist Wendell Steavenson in her attempt to understand how ordinary Iraqis permitted Saddam Hussein's reign of terror. Like Arendt and Sereny, she builds her survey around a single figure: General Kamel Sachet, an Iraqi general who first supported and then rebelled against the government. Sachet was a key figure in the Iran-Iraq war and a favourite of Saddam's, later becoming governor of Maysan Provinc