Joe Roth

It's late, in a rough part of town, and a bedraggled blond shuffles down streets that positively shimmer with menace. The woman is oblivious, possibly on drugs, as she trudges listlessly past steaming grates, trailing lights, spooked cats, police...

Janeane Garofalo, last seen helping get Jimmy Smits elected president on "The West Wing," is headed to CBS for her next TV gig. Garofalo has signed to star in a pilot about a team of public defenders, which is one of several projects moving forward at...

Another European soccer team will be coming to Seattle this summer. The Sounders FC announced Friday it will play Barcelona of Spain's La Liga on Aug. 5 at Qwest Field. That is after the Sounders play Chelsea from England's Premier League on July 18 in...

The bombs started raining on Baghdad two days before the stars were scheduled to reign at last year's 75th annual Academy Awards. Much hair tugging (or, at least, hair extensions tugging) followed. Would the show go on? Should it? Was it right for...

The motion picture academy's insistence on decorum in the wake of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl debacle gave last night's telecast of 76th Annual Academy Awards all the unpredictability of a sitcom rerun. ABC had hoped to attract the much-coveted young male...

The filmmakers from Down Under were on top of the entertainment world Sunday evening as "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the final installment of the hugely successful trilogy, made a clean sweep at the 76th annual Academy Awards held at...

Everyone in Hollywood knew that it was going to be "Return of the King" night, but no one could have guessed to what an extent that was going to be true. In an Oscar night that was more a coronation than an awards evening, "The Lord of the Rings: The...

Friday March 30, 2001      "Tomcats," a raunchy and rowdy comedy targeting young males, stars Jerry O'Connell as a likable guy with a serious problem and a short time to solve it. O'Connell's Michael Delaney is an aspiring L.A.-based cartoonist who's...

"Tears of the Sun" may make you weep, but not in the way anyone intended. Handsomely made, well-meaning but finally frustrating and unsatisfying, this perplexing film is an example of a previously unseen hybrid, the socially conscious, humanitarian action...

1½ stars (out of 4) "Christmas with the Kranks," a wholly Midwestern affair focused almost entirely on a single street in suburban Chicago, was filmed in a former Boeing aircraft factory in Downey, Calif., 15 miles east of Los Angeles. This is, of...

"Hey, it's 'Oprah,' " Bill Murray said, spotting the camera crew from Oprah Winfrey's talk show backstage at the Oscars. The crew was shooting segments to be seen on "Oprah" this week. And backstage wasn't a bad place to be Sunday night if you were...

If you've seen the trailer for "The Forgotten," you've seen a woodland cabin explode and a federal agent get sucked into the sky as if by some kind of cosmic Dustbuster. In other words, you've probably already gathered that "The Forgotten" is more than...