If only Benjamin Bratt 's character on The Cleaner could balance work and family as well as the actor does. The show's first season — A&E has just ordered a second — ended with William Banks' wife kicking him out of the house.

Ready to eat some turkey? Welcome back to the Movie Media column, featuring trailers, posters, and clips for upcoming films. Some are nice and fresh and some aren't. However, they all have something in common: for better or worse, they all caught my attention. If there is a poster or trailer you think I should check out, be sure to let me know.This special edition includes...

Mumbai, Nov 27: Could the young men behind the dastardly terror attack in the city have been influenced by a string of terror films - Bollywood and foreign - as their modus operandi shows an uncanny resemblance to some of the movies, including the recent A Wednesday and Die Hard.

Champion jockey Michael Walker felt like a teenaged apprentice yesterday when he rode at the Cambridge trials, just months after a hunting accident left him in intensive care in hospital and threatened his career.

William Gibson, 94, a Tony Award-winning playwright best known for "The Miracle Worker," the inspirational story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, died Tuesday at his home in Stockbridge, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death.

London 2012 chairman Lord Coe is to be part of an advisory group which aims to revive British distance running ahead of the Games.

DVD sales might have slumped recently, but youd never know it from the super-duper collectors editions and cunningly packaged boxed sets coming out this season.

"Last of the Old Guard" (Houghton Mifflin Company, 212 pages, $24) by Louis Auchincloss: At age 91, Louis Auchincloss lists 47 books of fiction and 19 of nonfiction before the title page of his new novel. So it would be natural to think that "Last of the Old Guard" marks his farewell to literature. That would be wrong.

State Sen. Diane Allen, R-7th of Edgewater Park, introduced legislation this week that calls for the Delaware River Port Authority to repeal its toll hikes.

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio merged their programming so that subscribers to either service would get the same channels.

Actress Teri Hatcher is scheduled to appear on "The View." Other celebrities hitting the talk-show circuit today include Beyoncé, Tom Jones, Hugh Jackman, Diahann Carroll, Adam Arkin and Fran Drescher.

DENVER - A former halfway house employee has admitted to selling drug-free urine to people on parole or on probation.

The new global poster boy for classical music and his wife are salsa-stepping across a ballroom. Gustavo Dudamel and Eloisa Maturen grin at each other and the dozens of couples around them as they execute perfect copas and spot turns.

BEYONCE has a dream. And it is no small wish. "I wanted to make classic music... to grow and make that transition into legendary.''

Michigan rapper MC Breed, who burst onto the national scene with the 1991 hit "Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin'," has died at age 37. A Washtenaw County medical examiner's spokesman says Eric Breed was pronounced dead at 4:10 p.m. Saturday at a friend's home in Ypsilanti, about 30 miles southwest of Detroit.

A certain high-profile guy made a low-profile appearance in Baltimore last week. CNN anchorman Tony Harris was inconspicuously sitting on the sidelines of Pam Shriver's Tennis Classic. It seems he was visiting mom, Yvonne Cross , who lives in D.C., and brought her to see one of her idols - tennis superstar Serena Williams - in action. Tony was playing it so low-key, only a handful of folks ...

Theater "Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know" - The show will be at 7 p.m. tonight and Satu ...

When French pop arose fresh-faced and well-coiffed in the early '60s, few would have pictured it a generation later in the hands of a guy who looks like a biker in casual Yves Saint-Laurent. But gaze into the hairy, shaded face of Sebastien Tellier (after you listen to his new album, ...

Celebrate the 22nd birthday of a unique Portsmouth institution by heading to the annual Button Factory Open Studios from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Button Factory on Islington Street in Portsmouth, across from Plaza 800...

The Annapolis conference one year ago set the goal of a Middle East peace peace deal within a year. Paul Wood assesses what 12 months of diplomacy have achieved.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, include Van Johnson, 55, of Moultrie; Erma Jean McCullough Chester, 55, of Moultrie; Oneida Stewart Hickman, 88, of Tifton; and Teresa Ann Sutton Dutton, 55, of Morven.

How amazing is JCVD, the new Jean-Claude Van Damme movie? The movie is not going straight to video. Instead, JCVD is playing in actual theaters in front of actual people who paid actual money to see it. JCVD isn't your typical bit of Van Dammeage; indeed, the 47-year-old faded star plays himself as . . . a 47-year-old faded star.

Actress Winona Ryder is at the centre of a new controversy after reportedly losing $125,000 worth of borrowed Bulgari diamonds loaned to her for an awards ceremony appearance in Spain.

It's been a source of speculation for some weeks now, but yesterday the White House made it official, confirming to the Associated Press that Laura Bush is planning to write a memoir and has been meeting with publishers to discuss the project.

Motti Lerner, an award-winning playwright and visiting professor at Knox College, presents a lecture/screening, "The Choice to Remain Human: A Screening and Discussion of the Film 'The Boat is Full'," at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 18 in the Francois Room E-117, Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.

When Obama takes nuclear 'football' as president, challenges will include the pending expiration of an arms treaty with Russia

Clap on. That time of year is upon us again – a time of thanksgiving, of good will toward others, of share and share alike. You know where this is headed: It's cheesy-gift time.

This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda's #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. "The report has not been confirmed by the State Department," they all said, but they reported it anyway.

Sunderland manager Roy Keane responded to a third straight Premier League home defeat yesterday by asking if he was the right man for the job. "I'm the manager of the club, I'm responsible -- I've never shied away from it.

Germany's only pay-television channel, Premiere , will pay about €1bn ($1.26bn) to show live Bundesliga football for four seasons from 2009, a vital but costly move for a franchise hammered since losing the rights at the last auction in late 2005.

IRON MAN Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow and Shaun Toub Distributed by Berjaya HVN Sdn Bhd

The size difference between Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon isn't the only thing keeping them apart in "Four Christmases." His signature rat-a-tat overconfidence and her pleasing girl-next-door perkiness turns out to be an awkward mix. Individually likable, Vaughn and Witherspoon never really seem to mesh as a couple.

Author chronicles 11 marriages

For progressives, Barack Obama's election means a nation where it is easier for unions to organize workers, where federal laws ban job discrimination against gays, hate crime laws are expanded and public lands are shielded from logging and oil drilling.

OK, it's official. The U.S. hotel industry is in a funk. The October data from STR makes it clear that the good times of 2005, 2006 and 2007 are now but a fond memory. The figure that tells the story is year-over-year average daily rate growth. It had been a while since we had witnessed industry wide ADR contractions—until October's year-over-year 0.5-percent decline. The last time ADR didn't ...

Zach Golson knocked down a potential game-tying pass with a minute left to seal Fillmore High football team's 21-14 win over visiting Brentwood in the CIF-Southern Section East Valley Division quarterfinals on a chilly Friday evening.

Improvisation is a hallmark of the modern screen comedy. In the films of the "Frat Pack" of Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and company, it's not the script that lands the laughs.

NANTWICH Town were dumped out of the League Cup at Kendal Town on Tuesday night. Without six first team players missing, they called up FA Youth Cup heroes Nathan Southern, Omar Mahmoud and Elliot Ledwards along with recent keeper signing, 19-year-old, Danny Roberts, in a bid to make progress.

A foundry which has cast statues for the Royal Ascot racecourse and Wembley is expanding.

Asin is one actress who has been mighty successful ever since she made her entry into tinsel town. Having proved to be a screen sizzler in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films, the actress is currently making it big in Hindi as well.

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Musical lovebirds Rihanna and Chris Brown captured trophies yesterday at the American Music Awards.

"Lake City," a family drama starring Sissy Spacek and Troy Garity, is not the most intuitive choice of a debut movie from two well-connected New Yorkers. It tells the story of a woman, Maggie (Spacek), living in a small Virginia town whose musician son, Billy...

'Fred Claus' Santa's black-sheep brother (Vince Vaughn) is bailed out of his latest jam by his saintly sibling (Paul Giamatti) and forced to work off his debt at the North Pole, where he learns to re-evaluate his conniving ways as a heartless efficiency expert (Kevin Spacey) plots to put St. Nick out of a job. The DVD and Blu-ray releases come with deleted scenes and commentary from director ...

November 25, 2008 Is it me or is Netflix the greatest invention ever? The only thing I love more than having movies delivered right to my mailbox is stacking up my viewing choices in the queue. Actually, I also love saying the word queue.

Nov. 25, 11:44 p.m., Wasilla: Glenn Armstrong, 46, Palmer, arrested after he refused to leave a home despite multiple requests to do so. Charge: Trespassing. Bail: $500.

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While Old San Juan is well known for its muscular forts and somnolent cobbled plazas, few visitors arrive expecting to find a clutch of gourmet restaurants shoehorned in among the historic 16th-century facades. But, hidden inside one of America's oldest urban quarters, streets that once played host to cutlass-brandishing pirates are now the domain of knife-wielding chefs.

Serbia will be affected by the global financial crisis indirectly, but the outlook is not all gloomy, says a World Bank (WB) official. WB Country Manager Simon Gray, in a recent online commentary, blamed the indirect effects of the global slowdown on Serbia's high current account deficit, coupled with more costly external borrowing and more cautious foreign investors. "Domestic demand is high, ...