LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" judge Ellen DeGeneres unexpectedly quit the top-rated television singing show on Thursday after just a year in the job, saying it was not the right fit for her. The popular U.S. talk show host and comedian, whose addition to the panel had largely ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tried to revive his common touch on Thursday with a mainly light-hearted appearance on daytime television where five women hosts grilled him about his Blackberry, Lindsay Lohan and the Afghan war. His appearance was the first by a sitting U.S. ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A day after he logged a fifth week atop the U.S. pop album chart, rapper Eminem on Thursday claimed the lead on the Hot 100 singles chart for a second week. "Love The Way You Lie," featuring Rihanna, kept Katy Perry's former chart-topper "California ...

So it's a good thing that LeBlanc, 43, has no trouble sending up his womanizing air-head alter ego Joey Tribbiani either in real-life or on screen. "If people really believe me as that character, I have done my job," LeBlanc told reporters on Thursday, saying he is often greeted with the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's been nearly three weeks since Mel Gibson's leaked telephone rant cost him his agents at William Morris Endeavor. But at least for now, his showbiz lawyers are standing by their man. Tom Hansen, Gibson's longtime Hollywood attorney and the founding partner of ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Viacom Inc executive chairman Sumner Redstone's news-making gifts to young women are proving irksome to his longtime lady friend, Christine Peters. Peters is well aware that her longtime production deal at Viacom-owned Paramount -- which ended last year -- was ...

ROME (Reuters) - World premieres by directors Sofia Coppola and Darren Aronofsky as well as the hotly anticipated adaptation of cult novel "Barney's Version" will be among the highlights of this year's Venice film festival. Twenty-three movies, including a surprise title yet to be ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Australian director Phillip Noyce returned to directing Angelina Jolie in the new Russian spy action thriller "Salt," more than ten years after he worked with her in "The Bone Collector." The newest film, which was released in the United States last week ...

The nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon had their prayers answered last week after beating 70 other religious orders from North America and Africa to the deal with Universal Music. The sisters, whose album is set to be released in November, put a clip of their ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After four years playing an exuberant young office worker on TV comedy "Ugly Betty," actress America Ferrera is all grown up and taking a decidedly more serious turn in a movie she worked tirelessly to make. The actress, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe award ...