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During the week of April 27- May 1, 2009, top-rated morning program 'Live with Regis and Kelly' gave the show's nationwide tv audience a vicarious thrill when America's favorite co-hosts jumped into the roles of some of the best Broadway characters during 'On Broadway Week.'

Andrew Motion applauds a vividly sympathetic exploration of poetry, madness and identityHigh Beach, on the edge of Epping Forest in Essex, is a strange poetic vortex. Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas were stationed there during the first world war; we have no evidence that they met. Seventy-odd years earlier, a better-known literary overlap occurred in the same vicinity, thanks to one Matthew Allen. Allen was founder of the High Beach Private Asylum, the institution that first gave shelter to John Clare. He was also a friend of Alfred Tennyson, doctor to Tennyson's brother Septimus, and eventually (by persuading them to put money into a half-baked wood-carving scheme) the cause of their bankruptcy. You wouldn't know any of this today, driving through the Epping commuter belt, but it's a resonant place for literary archaeologists.As it is for Adam Foulds, who recently published both an acclaimed first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, and a prize-winning long poem 'The Broken Wo

Why watch Star Trek and The Lord Of The Rings when you can make your own versions? Alex Godfrey meets the heroes of homemade Hollywood busy juggling their day jobs with some increasingly epic productionsJJ Abrams's cinematic reboot of Star Trek, out on Friday, is already earning praise for returning the tired space franchise to its core values and reinstating the characters that made it great in the first place. But a band of amateur film-makers had been doing that already. Even as Enterprise, Star Trek's final TV incarnation, was limping to the end of its final season in 2005, a team of hardcore fans were quietly producing for themselves the kind of Star Trek episodes they really wanted to see.James Cawley loved the show when he was a kid, and used to run around with his friends pretending to be Captain Kirk. Later, when he managed to get hold of the set blueprints from the original series, he decided to build a full-size replica of the Enterprise's bridge in this garage; firstly so h

The Heroes star has auditioned for the role of Ariel Moore - a part for which Dancing with the Stars' Julianne Hough is also reportedly seeking - in the musical remake of Footloose, E! News reports. Lori Singer played the character of Ariel in the original film.

TV News: Media buyers stay course in down economy -- Broadcast ratings continue to decline and cable program viewing continues to rise, but don't look for massive advertising revenue shifts during TV's upfront advertising-selling period.

Where does he go from here? A 10-year-old boy from North Hampton, N.H., hit a hole-in-one while golfing with his father during the weekend. Ryan Quinn hit the 164-yard shot Sunday at the Sagamore-Hampton Golf Club. Club pro Tyler Sanborn said until then, no...

There?s been one common factor with every acting role Gail O?Grady has tackled ? she invests every ounce of her heart and acting soul into each character. Read comments

Juliet Stevenson says being humiliated made her determined to become a successful actress. The 'Truly Madly Deeply' star was 'torn to sheds' during her time at acclaimed London drama school RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), as the director of their production of 'Cleopatra' didn't feel she was good enough for the lead role.

Sonam Kapoor is all for getting into the commercial groove after doing off-beat films and says she won't mind playing Lara Dutta's role in No Entry or Priyanka Chopra's character in Dostana . But she is clear that she doesn't want to be seen as just ...

A prequel to the 'X-Men' trilogy, 'Wolverine' is silly and typical, not in spite of but because it bonds an undeveloped family feud onto the main character's renegade story.