An Inconvenient Truth (movie)

While his relationship with Tipper was "cooling" off, Al Gore's relationship with another woman was "heating" up. Two weeks after the Vice President and his wife announced their split, after 40 years of marriage, a cheating scandal erupts. And who better...

Here's a short list of things I do to avoid writing: do the dishes; do laundry; do the Internet (Playbill.com, the Drudge Report); read the paper; install shelves; help my kids with their homework; follow the Red Sox; go to the gym; listen to podcasts ("...

AT CLOSE TO 20 MILLION video-hungry users a month — and growing — YouTube.com has become a magnet for budding filmmakers, marketers and entertainment industry executives looking for new ways to reach viewers. Now, with the campaign season upon...

Earth Day isn't a holiday that kids start revving up for months in advance. No gifts are exchanged. Nobody gets cake. School isn't even canceled. What's the point? That's where the folks come in, offering up perspective and lessons and all those other...

Not so long ago corporate America dismissed environmentally conscious consumers as hemp-wearing hippies with too little buying power to demand much attention. Now big brands are discovering it pays to go green. In the past six weeks alone Apple Inc....

The documentary category is where Hollywood wears its conscience on its sleeve, and this Oscar season's nominees have the politically engaged members of the industry buzzing more than usual over the range and variety of topics. Partly, that's because the...

When you look into the piercing, suspicious black eyes of a polar bear, directly over the railing of your cruise ship, it suddenly doesn't matter that the cruise has no chocolate buffet or that the swimming pool is used as storage space. The bear doesn't...

Presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama may have spent last week in a contentious battle for Hollywood's attention, but on Sunday it was clear that the entertainment industry only had eyes for one politician: Al Gore. "An...

They made the right choice: Best actor winner Forest Whitaker not only moved people with his performance as dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland," but his heartfelt acceptance speech had his wife, as well as fellow contenders Leonardo...

Watching the Oscars was like going to a museum and plunking down an extra 20 bucks for the audio tour. The emphasis was on experiential enhancement through the miracle of knowledge. Or, failing that, apocryphal-sounding factoids. "Martin Scorsese...

"I'm not expecting a call from Her Majesty and not ever, and I wouldn't expect it, I wouldn't desire it. I think it's wonderful that I live in a country that allows us to make a film like this, and there's many countries in the world that one would not be...

Pierre André Senizergues can make skateboards do anything. When he was in his 20s, he steered them from the Paris suburbs to Venice Beach and turned them into the key to an apartment he could afford when he started winning skate competitions. In his 30s,...