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*Responding to an article first published by WENN and reprinted here at EURweb; Bill Cosby called our own Lee Bailey to set the record straight regarding allegations that he once tried to blackball/blacklist actor Terrence Howard. "I don't like something being out there that I know for sure isn't true," said Cosby, explaining his reason for contacting us Wednesday afternoon.

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby might be on the road to nowhere if they tried to team up today the way they did in old Hollywood.

Today's funny folks reunite now and then, like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in "Step Brothers," a follow-up to their 2006 comedy "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby."

The most passionate Spider-Men, Storm Troopers, Harry Potters and other pop-culture fanatics are headed south for their annual pilgrimage. Comic-Con, the country's biggest comic-book convention, begins Thursday at the San Diego Convention Center.

Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

If the first "X-Files" movie landed in the midst of the TV show's run and near the height of its popularity, the second -- far more modest in scope and ambition -- comes six years after the program signed off. Both, however, share a common trait: Namely, neither would qualify as a better-than-average episode of the series. Director/franchise creator Chris Carter gives devoted fans plenty of small moments to swoon over, but the appeal should be limited beyond those fervent loyalists. So while the opening should be reasonably robust, this remains a movie primarily reserved for those wanting to believe in it.

Hannah Montana may be the biggest thing on television, but in real life, her portrayer, Miley Cyrus, is a typical teenager who fights with her brother and gets grounded. The difference is, Cyrus sometimes actually enjoys being confined to quarters.

Shepherd tells the Christian women's magazine "Precious Times" that she had such low self-esteem at one point that she was "sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count."

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.

Batman 's Christian Bale was arrested in London Tuesday, following assault allegations reportedly made by his own mother and sister.

In the midst of fighting cancer, Patrick Swayze is looking like his old self again – healthy, happy and hot.

"I'm a miracle dude ... I don't know why," he told photographers and fans as he left Los Angeles Airport on Sunday afternoon.

*Janet Jackson (and Justin Timberlake)'s infamous 2004 "wardrobe malfunction" won't cost CBS stations a thing after Monday's decision by a U.S. appeals court to overturn the FCC's $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp.

*Black actor Brandon T. Jackson is giving his "Tropic Thunder" co-star Robert Downey Jr. praise for his role as an Academy Award-winning white film star who dons makeup to take on a character written for an African American actor.

MARC BARIL Favorite film score: Jon Brion's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" stands out for me.

Composers talk up favorite film scores and more in an interesting piece in Variety

The wait for Detox is almost over. Dr. Dre says his long-anticipated third solo album is starting to take shape in the studio and could arrive before the end of the year.

Jay Leno's last night hosting "The Tonight Show" will be May 29, 2009, NBC executives announced Monday.

Conan O'Brien will take over the fabled late-night show on the following Monday, June 1. The news came in answer to persistent questions to NBC co-chairmen Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff from a bald, bearded man in the back of the room on the last day of the TV critics' summer press tour.

The new season of AMC's "Mad Men," which makes its premiere at 10 p.m. on Sunday, comes with a special request that critics not give away the "pivotal storyline moments" in the first two episodes, and allow the audience to discover them for themselves.

*Outsports.com is reporting that Isaiah Washington has contributed money to a group that seeks to stop the anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot in November. The actor's publicist, Howard Bragman, got married to his partner under the new law several days ago and requested that in lieu of gifts, guests donate to Equality California, which sponsors and helps lobby for the passage of dozens of bills supporting gay rights

*You heard it here first: the late Heath Ledger will win an Academy Award for his defining, spine-tingling performance as The Joker. Forget Cesar Romero's hamming it up on the campy Sixties TV series. Ditto, Jack Nicholson's equally-over the top rendition in the first screen adaptation of Batman back in 1989.

Tens of thousands of fans gathered on Quebec City's historic site, the Plains of Abraham, in hopes of securing a good spot to watch Paul McCartney's free concert Sunday night as part of the city's 400th ...

Gillian Anderson says getting back into Dana Scully's character for 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' was harder than she expected.

'It was a little odd,' Anderson told Newsweek for its July 21 issue. 'It was more disconcerting than I anticipated. I expected it to be a breeze. But I tried so hard since the series ended to do things as different as possible from the character.

'When I was faced with making acting decisions on that character again, my brain started backfiring and internally combusting,' she said.