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Anne Hathaway won an Oscar on her second nomination Sunday, confirming her status as one of Hollywood's brightest acting talents -- and an astonishingly powerful singer who "Dreamed a Dream."

British actor Richard Briers, famed for his role in television sit-com "The Good Life" has died at the age of 79, his agent said Monday.

Former "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" actress Sheridan Smith cemented her status as a rising star of theatre after claiming the best actress in a play prize at the Whatsonstage.com awards.

Former "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" actress Sheridan Smith cemented her status as a rising star of theatre after claiming the best actress in a play prize at the Whatsonstage.com awards.

"Anger Management" star Charlie Sheen released an online video urging an ex-cop accused of three killings to call him, after the actor was named in the man's chilling online manifesto.

Three weeks before the much-anticipated Oscars, US film director and actor Ben Affleck won a new top prize for his film "Argo", a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran.

Award-winning US comedy "30 Rock" bowed out after seven seasons, with a double helping of the cult TV show starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin.

Iran hostage crisis drama "Argo" won the best film drama prize at the Screen Actors Guild awards, in yet another boost for its prospects at next month's all-important Oscars.

Hollywood stars walked the red carpet into the 70th annual Golden Globe awards in a glittering array of gowns, daring to bare their shoulders despite the chilly temperatures in Los Angeles.

Organizers of the annual Oscars ceremony have made little secret of their desire to reach a younger, edgier audience. And they are hoping this year's host Seth MacFarlane can hit the right spot.

Frank Drescher has said that she's not dependent on her gay ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson despite their working relationship. Frank Drescher has said that she's not dependent on her gay ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson despite their close working relationship. The 55-year-old Drescher has previously said that her marriage was ?happy? and that Jacobson's sexual orientation did not cause the divorce. Drescher and Jacobson created and produced the long-running CBS sitcom The Nanny, which starred Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish working class woman from Queens who creates chaos when she lands a job looking after the children of an upper class Broadway producer in New York. The couple have reunited to produce cabler TV Land's hit sitcom Happily Divorced, which is loosely based on Drescher's life following her divorce from Jacobson in 1999 after 21 years of marriage. Despite their close working relationship, Drescher told BuzzFeed.com that the pair are living their own separate lives unlike th

US actor Charlie Sheen, who has a long history of hard partying and scandal, has a new night spot in Mexico -- his own, a local official said Saturday.

Yeardley Smith, who plays Lisa on 'The Simpsons,' has pledged $25K to fight California's gay marriage ban. Yeardley Smith, the French-born actress best know for playing the voice of Lisa Simpson on Fox's animated series The Simpsons, has pledged up to $25,000 to the group challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban. The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) announced the gift in an email to supporters on Thursday. ?My friend and AFER supporter Yeardley Smith stepped up to help us reach our $50,000 goal by the end of the year,? wrote Dustin Lance Black, an AFER founding board member and the writer of the film Milk and the play 8. ?She'll match every donation we receive until we hit our target. We're so close and we need your help to get there.? In Hollingsworth v. Perry, AFER is representing two gay couples who wish to marry but cannot because of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment which limits marriage to heterosex

Marlo Thomas is back on television in a guest role on the NBC comedy 'The New Normal'. Marlo Thomas is back on television in a guest role on the NBC comedy The New Normal. Thomas plays Nancy Niles, a Los Angeles realtor to the stars who hires Jane (Played by Ellen Barkin). Thomas first appeared in the December 4 episode titled Baby Proofing. In the show from Glee creator Ryan Murphy, David (Justin Bartha, The Hangover) and Bryan (Andrew Rannells, Broadway's Book of Mormon) begin their quest to start a family as Goldie (Georgia King) and her daughter escape the clutches of her overbearing and homophobic grandmother (Barkin) from small town Ohio to Los Angeles. Thomas discussed the role in an appearance Wednesday on ABC's daytime talk show The View. ?I play Ellen's boss, I just hired her in that show,? she said, a reference to a clip played for the audience. ?And I'm making her over, because she's [a] homophobe and she's a racist and all those things and I can make better. That's my job.

A Hollywood premiere of notoriously violent director Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Django Unchained" was canceled, the latest such response to the Connecticut school massacre.

Film premieres and TV shows have been canceled or postponed as a tribute to the Connecticut school shooting victims, and even sports events have been modified to share in the mourning.

Nominations for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards include out actors Jim Parsons and Sarah Paulson. ?Nominations for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards include out actors Jim Parsons and Sarah Paulson. Parsons was nominated for his work on the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory in the Best Performance by an Actor in Television Series ? Comedy or Musical category. He'll compete against Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Don Cheadle (House of Lies), Louis C.K. (Louie) and Matt LeBlanc (Episodes). Paulson is nominated for her work on the HBO show Game Change in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television category. Also nominated is Archie Panjabi, who plays bisexual Kalinda Sharma on the CBS drama The Good Wife. They will compete against Hayden Panettiere (Nashville), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey) and Sofia Vergara (Modern Family). Eric Stonestreet received a best supporting actor nomination for his role as gay dad Cameron Tuck

A comedy series coming to computer screens explores the lives of a gay couple after infidelity. A comedy series coming to computer screens explores the lives of a gay couple after infidelity. EastSiders premieres December 14 at EastSidersTheSeries.com. Its cast includes Emmy-nominated Van Hansis (As the World Turns) and Stephen Guarino (Happy Endings, Bear City). The series' description reads: ?When Cal (Kit Williamson) finds out Thom (Hansis) has been cheating on him with Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon), their relationship is turned upside down. Will the lies tear them apart or are they just stubborn enough to stay together forever? Drunken outbursts and double standards abound in this dark comedy about the sad and funny messes we make out of our lives.? Williamson, also the series' writer and director, said he created EastSiders because he was frustrated by the lack of flawed gay characters. ?I wanted to create gay characters with the same complexity and flaws straight characters are all

The US actor on "Two and a Half Men" who called the hit TV series "filth" apologized, as he scrambled to keep his job on what its former star Charlie Sheen said was a "cursed" show.

Perennially troubled US actor Charlie Sheen said that hit TV series "Two and a Half Men," on which he starred for years, is "cursed," after one of its stars called the show "filth".