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Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate moviegoers from their cash? The latest version of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' features Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

This year, Christmas in Kingston will all be about pirates, pieces of eight and swashbuckling adventure as the Rose Theatre brings Treasure Island to life.

If Opus Dei had a rough ride in the blockbuster movie based on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, it looks set for an altogether more sympathetic portrayal in another film that deals with the Catholic organisation.

Tony Curtis Likes it hot at the Avon By KEITH LORIA Hour Correspondent When the American Film Institute named its top movies of the century in 2000, it voted 1959's screen gem "Some Like it Hot" as the greatest American comedy in motion picture history.

A WIZARD DID IT: The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro says there will be a lot of magic in the film.

Rickles because he deserves it. He's a legend. Honorary member of the Rat Pack. The guy Johnny Carson tossed into a hot tub.

THE festive spirit takes over cinemas this week with the release of a Christmas Carol, an animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" has never looked as good on home video as it does in the new 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition, released this week .

The Capital Grille invites customers to design a custom label for an exclusive, world-class wine.

The mini-documentary on the series of earthquakes that rattled the Reno area last year will be featured Thursday night on the National Geographic Channel.

A theatre was under fire after it banned an Al Jolson tribute act from 'blacking up' - claiming it is racist.

Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will receive a wave of publicity as a crew from the National Geographic Channel will be on hand to capture a key moment in construction for the Wildebeest water coaster.

It's amazing that there haven't been more films made about the life of Ernest Hemingway.

Hosting the Oscars is the worst job in comedy. Everyone at home expects you to be funny.

A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare.

When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically non prayer breakfast.

";" src="http://www.etonline.com/media/video/2009/11/120059/et_briangrazerevent_091103_large.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /> NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Gala honored five of Hollywood's elitea ' Brian Grazer , Ron Howard , Marcia Gay Harden , Sheila Nevins , and Diana King a 'Monday night in New York.

Jim Carrey thanked Britain for the legacy of Charles Dickens - and for Supernanny - as he switched on the Christmas lights at London's Oxford Circus to celebrate the world premiere of Disney's A Christmas Carol.

Jim Carrey helped turn on London's Christmas lights as his new Scrooge film premiered in the capital.

A legion of male admirers found her irresistible before her death but Marilyn Monroe has not been able to exert the same kind of pull in the afterlife.