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It was three decades ago that Billy Crystal became famous playing one of the first gay characters on the TV series "Soap." We watched as the compact guy with the halo of dark curls morphed into Sammy Davis Jr.

After spending the better part of a decade mugging to the rafters in such films as The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Analyze That , Robert De Niro opts to underplay in the family drama Everybody's Fine .

Drew Barrymore, Robert De Niro as daughter and dad. Not a fuzzy com- edy, it's a bittersweet weeper about a father's attempts at reconnection.

As much as Americans love their matinee idols, most people think acting is a pretty cushy job - a sort of glorified game of dress-up that pays rather better than "real" work.

Stephen Whitty/Newark Star-Ledger Where have you gone, Robert De Niro? For years now, a nation has turned its lonely eyes to movie marquees -- and has seen titles like "Hide and Seek," "Righteous Kill" and "Meet the Fockers." Or "The Godsend," "Analyze That" and "Shark Tale." And wondered, what happened to the actor who did "Mean Streets," "The ...

This whole decade has been pretty much a waste for Robert De Niro. A lucrative waste, but even so ... Having dazzled the film world in the 1970s, the actor spent the '00s either parodying his tough-guy image in comedies or giving less-than-memorable performances in less-than-memorable thrillers .

The first lady is appearing on Sesame Street today as the show reaches its 40th birthday.

Talk to writer/actor William DeMeo for a few minutes, and you'll have no problem imagining him in a movie about the mob.

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "The Royal Family" opens tomorrow night, and it should be a great success.

Emmy-winning Lisa Kudrow doesn't have Friends anymore but she does have the money she earned from the long-running series which allows her to do what she wants.

A "Sopranos" actor who claims a typo cost him a $5 million lottery jackpot isn't going to just fuhgeddaboutit.

Bandslam's account of a teenager's awkward attempts to settle into a new school remind former Friends star Lisa Kudrow of her own adolescence.

Bandslam's account of a teenager's awkward attempts to settle into a new school remind former Friends star Lisa Kudrow of her own adolescence.

Program: P.O.V. "The Betryal" Time: 9 p.m. Date: Tuesday, July 21 Trailer and behind-the-scenes information on pbs.org/pov The costs of contemporary war have rarely been captured with as much intimacy, poetry and sense of history as they are in The Betrayal .

Choices include: 'The Bourne Identity' , 6 and 8:30 p.m., USA. Here are two chances to catch the crowd-pleaser about a guy who wakes up with no memory, but lots of spy skills.

If you go and see Year One , you're not very likely to be tickled pink, but you may be a bit puzzled.

He does quality work, why haven't I seen him in forever?" You totally do, right? Maybe you've thought that about Billy Crystal who hasn't had a major onscreen credit since 2002's Analyze That .

One of the strangest "road" pictures to come along in a long time - perhaps eons - is Year One.

The comedy film landscape was inextricably changed the minute Judd Apatow came on the scene.

No matter who you are, chances are slim that you're as busy as Harold Ramis this week.