The country star lit into the actor for an article Hawke wrote in the new issue of Rolling Stone about Kris Kristofferson. In it, Hawke refers to a blowup Kristofferson had with an unnamed country star back in 2003 that sounds a lot like Toby Keith.

"I get these occasional letters from Lucasfilm saying that we regret to inform you that as Return of the Jedi has never gone into profit, we've got nothing to send you. Now here we're talking about one of the biggest releases of all time."

"Its called 'acting' Mr. Gervais!!!"

It's hard to choose a favorite Late Night character.

Luke...I drive faster....

Beer truck crash: A tractor-trailer loaded with cases of beer jackknifed on I-481 South between Northern Boulevard and Route 298 at 1:47 p.m. according to the county 911 center.

Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis. ... The miracle is that as the movie becomes more serious, it becomes funnier. The comedy and the philosophy (how shall one live?) do not sit side by side, but inhabit each other in a unity that is incredibly satisfying.

Looking at their respective careers, the two superstars followed similar paths.

"Starting on Tuesday, MSNBC's morning show will be known as F******** Joe," said MSNBC spokesperson Carol Foyler. "We want to send the message that if you tune in to this show, you'll get a unique mix of breaking news and XXX-rated chat."

His one regret, he said, was that he never once let Charlie Brown kick the football held out for him by Lucy: always she snatched it away and always he landed on his back.

On a clear day Robin Williams can see forever — or at least to Alaska, from which Sarah Palin's fiefdom crept souther and souther until going absolutely radioactive this week in St. Paul.

In our never-ending quest to provide you the tools and knowledge to raise your kids in your own geeky image, we present you with a list of 10 geeky movies to raise your kids with.

Anyone else notice that the sailboat painting over the couch looks like a face laughing? Or am I just paranoid?

"America did not get Superman from our greatest legends, but because a boy lost his father," Meltzer says. "Superman came not out of our strength but out of our vulnerability."

If Washington lawmakers want to ensure that legal music services cannot compete with under-the-radar alternatives that pay nothing to artists, they're doing a bang-up job.

Debate is raging on movie message boards over whether a plump, jowly woman who briefly features as a train passenger in North by Northwest was actually the acclaimed film director in drag.

But the real driving force, he said, is something most of us know too well: self-indulgence. It's not just based on biological addiction.

Dear people of the Earth: On Nov. 24th, 1971, I hijacked flight 305, collected a 200,000 dollar ransom, and parachuted into the stormy Pacific Northwest night. You know me as D.B. Cooper.

Talk-radio pundit Rush Limbaugh renewed his contract with his syndication company today, signing an eight-year deal that Limbaugh said is worth more than $400 million, including a $100 million signing bonus.

In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of "Family Guy" on television, will unveil a carefully guarded new project called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy." Unlike "Family Guy," which is broadcast on Fox, this animation series will appear exclusively on …

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.

Famous movie scenes parodied in Simspons side by side with the original.

David Cavanaugh, best known as the guy who says "Previously on Heroes" at the beginning of the hit NBC program, revealed to reporters Tuesday that his true career ambition is to become the guy who says "Previously on Lost" on the popular ABC show Lost.

Fox News' very own anchors are speaking out — and walking off — over what they perceive to be "Obama-bashing" on their network.

But that's just gaming culture, more pervasive than it was in 1974 when Dungeons & Dragons was created and certainly more profitable — today it's estimated to be a $40 billion-a-year business — but still a little bit nerdy.

A New York Police Department spokesman says the actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence.

Since 1998, when Garrison Hearst became the first person besides John Madden himself to appear on the cover of EA's monster franchise, eleven NFL players have graced the series' box. And, as we'll see in a minute, yes, bad things happened to some of them.

This weekend, however, the two men are stuck deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their writers' rebellion over?

In a recent article on Keith Olbermann, a senior executive at MSNBC was cited as saying, "Keith runs MSNBC. It's been an amazing turnaround, because two years ago they were going to cancel him. Because of his success, he's in charge. Chris Matthews is infuriated by it."

Suddenly, Jamie called to me from the other room, claiming I had to come see something.

As we don our Halloween costumes and prepare for All Hallow's Eve, here at IGN TV we're taking a look back at one of our favorite show's annual Halloween specials, The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror."

There's no doubt that spending the holidays with the in-laws can be a tedious and often boring experience.

Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google.

Craig Kilborn, the former host of The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn, actor from the film The Benchwarmers, and SportsCenter anchor from 1993 to 1997, was spotted at 5:30 a.m. this morning broke, homeless, and passed out in front of ESPN's SportsCenter studios. ...

This old soul has enjoyed many musical incarnations. For a few years now, most people have seen him teaming with Warren Haynes on the revived, twin-guitar attack of the Allman Brothers Band.

In this day of high ticket prices and big screen TVs, is it still worth seeing a movie at the theater?

"Dave [Engler] is definitely Jack," said Krewalski, comparing the 31-year-old line cook whom he has known since college to the selfless doctor and leader of the survivors. "Always has a plan. Always making the tough decisions.

NO, it's not easy being green, least of all for Hollywood A-listers living in jaw-dropping decadence. Solar panels on a 50,000-square-foot manse in Malibu just don't scream "Live simply!" Ditto hopping onto a private plane to get to the Live Earth concert.

The site, www.eBaumsWorld.com, was founded in 1998 by then-Webster High School student Eric Bauman. Today it is the 249th most popular Web site in the United States and 311th in Canada, according to Alexa, a firm that tracks Web site traffic.

Ghostbusters 3 - Ghostbusters in Hell - Dan Aykroyd has been desperately pushing for a Ghostbusters sequel for over a decade (yes, we're refusing to acknowledge that Ghostbusters 2 exists).

Amazing and scary at the same time.

Iron Man footage - Pretty grainy

Here, then, are the 25 best "movies" in the show's history, excluding actual films that existed in our universe as well.

This, the 38th running of the Comic-con, is all (well, a lot) about Star Wars. Thirtieth anniversary and all.

Very cool.

Rescue Dawn is an exhilarating piece of filmmaking, and it can leave you on a high for some time after you've seen it.

Paper of record for the RIJF

It's a tight, thematically unified piece of work, and the moral of the story is: Adolescence sucks. Childhood's over, boys and girls.

Amazon.com's Harry-est Town in America promotion features which towns in America, on a per capita basis, are pre-ordering the most copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from Amazon.com.

Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.

This wasn't a spur of the moment act. This was staged.

According to police reports, 28-year-old marketing research assistant Louis Bowen walked into the small Italian restaurant Occhiuto's at approximately 7:40 p.m. and headed directly toward Gandolfini's table.

Before you discard this as seeing ten guys on the Grassy Knoll -- and I'm sure as hell tempted myself -- we've already been shown a coffin shot, an orange, an orange restaurant, two orange cats, and a three-second Last Supper shot, referencing the very center of the rite of the …

3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai A 23-year-old cult cannot be wrong. Forget that the score to this 1984 sci-fi-something-or-other sounds like bad video-game music. Forget that star Peter Weller dresses suspiciously like Pee-Wee Herman.

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"We have writers now who are so young that they grew up watching the show," says show creator Matt Groening. "They remind some of us who have been around longer that we've already done a joke that somebody is pitching."

Simpsons Producer James L Brooks claims that 70% of the theatrical trailer is not even in the finished film: "It started out as people wanting to know what it was about, and then we were having fun with it, putting out false story lines.

5. His first joke in stand-up comedy is said to be: "What do they call lunch hour in the diamond district when all the Hasidim are causing a traffic jam in the streets? Yidlock." - They don't get much better than this.

The first rule of The Simpsons Movie is apparently, "You don't talk about The Simpsons Movie."

Anyone heard of any of these?

A 40-part series is being made by Chinese state television about the life of late martial arts star Bruce Lee.

Caption time!

Blu-Ray and DVD-HD -- the two new high-def video formats that have been crippled into uselessness through ridiculous anti-copying measures -- are selling so poorly that a new disc can get on the weekly top ten by selling as few as 880 copies.

I've spent the majority of my existence obsessing far too much over two things: the Detroit Red Wings and "The Simpsons." The former is an NHL franchise that plays in a building where old bathtubs are considered toilets.

His first review was of Star Wars.In 1987, he became the nationally syndicated chief film critic for Gannett News Service,

With new online DVD rental services cropping up each day, it can be hard to know which service is right for you. Here's a breakdown of what the most popular services offer:

Fox publicist Gwyne Ortiz said Fox has asked 16 Springfields from Oregon to Massachusetts to participate.

Cohen is in his eighth year writing for "The Simpsons" and before he came to San Francisco for a lecture (at the JCC - it's already sold out), he took some time to chat about everything from what it's like inside a highly competitive writing room, to the new "Simpsons" movie and  …

A stolen painting has been found at Steven Spielberg's home 18 years after the US filmmaker unwittingly bought it.

Here is the article: "There is no deal done yet, but a top TV executive said he is "99 percent sure'' Tiki Barber will end up doing news and sports with ABC and ESPN. Barber could wind up as a contributor to Good Morning America and 20/20.

Sinners Like Me by Eric Church. If you like Merle Haggard, you will like this album. The first line of the first song on this freshman effort is "I believe that gas is to damn high." Not the typical "redneck" country album. I don't have a clue as to melodies or tonal qualities.

We hear it every night on TV and read it every day in the paper. After an inspired victory or crushing loss, the grizzled hero emerges from the showers to share his thoughts. "It was a big game. Two big points." "As long as we work hard we can compete every night."

This looks pretty cool

As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or "The Simpsons."

The critics seem ready to be preparing to write an obituary for NBC's inside-TV series, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."

An unfinished work by JRR Tolkien will be published next spring after being completed by the writer's son.

JK Rowling's tales of the teenage wizard were the most requested by terror suspects held at the high-security camp from among 3,500 titles available.

Local broadcaster Joe Lomonaco of WHAM-AM (1180) will guest star on Fox's animated series Family Guy on Sunday. Lomonaco, 35, will be the voice of Weenie, half the morning DJ team of Weenie & the Butt in the fictional town of Quahog.

this hasn't stopped others, including American political-comic-of-the-moment Stephen Colbert (right), from trying.

SaginawSpirit.com took a "half-million hits from all over the world" since Colbert's bit, according to team managing partner Craig Goslin.

In essence, 80 percent of a record store's inventory is functionally useless, save the occasional impulse sale.

Radio morning show hosts Opie and Anthony yesterday escalated their verbal attack - some might say publicity stunt - against Howard Stern by daring him to get them kicked off CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman."