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Entertainment News from January 2000

1Schindler's List tops the Broadcast Film Critics Association list of the top films of the 1990s. Saving Private Ryan places second, with L.A. Confidential in third. Rounding out the top five…

Entertainment News from May 2000

1When negotiations break down in a heated contract dispute, Time Warner Cable blacks out ABC from 3.5 million households. The timing couldn't be worse for ABC: the May sweeps are just…

The Year in Movies

Hollywood followed the lead of trailblazing independents, producing a slate of dark, edgy films by Beth Rowen Despite the typical deluge of summer high-octane blockbusters, Hollywood finally…

Parts of Speech: Nouns: Prime-Time Players

Nouns: Prime-Time PlayersParts of SpeechGrammarNouns: Prime-Time PlayersVerbs: All the Right MovesConjunctions: The Ties That BindPrepositions: Good Things Come in Small PackagesAdjectives: Happy…

David Letterman, 2002 News

late-night talk-show host, flirted with taking his Late Show from CBS to ABC. In attempting to lure Letterman to its network, ABC, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, considered…

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is one of the best-loved figures in British children's literature. Pooh was the creation of author A.A. Milne, who was inspired by the stuffed toys of his son Christopher Robin.…

Emmy Rossum

Emmy Rossum is the supremely tressed young actress who starred with Gerard Butler in the 2004 movie version of The Phantom of the Opera. An accomplished opera singer, Rossum had a professional…

Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a French novelist whose many popular novels include the classics A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). While studying law, Verne…

Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana is the title character of a popular TV show which debuted on the Disney Channel in March of 2006. Hannah is a famous pop music star who secretly leads a "normal" life as a mildly nerdy…

Michael Eisner Biography

Michael Eisnerentertainment executiveBorn: 1942Birthplace: Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Having served in a variety of positions at NBC and CBS and as president of Paramount Pictures while at ABC, he…