Writer Seeks Credit for Latifah Movie

Writer Seeks Credit for Latifah Movie Saturday March 29 5:01 PM ET A New York lawyer who claims she had the original idea for the box-office hit “Bringing Down the House” filed a $15 million copyright lawsuit Friday against star Queen Latifah and the movie’s other producers. Marie Flaherty claims the movie is a rip-off […]

“Bringing Down the House”

“Bringing Down the House” is a predictable, enjoyable comedy starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. A recently divorced lawyer’s life (Martin) is turned upside-down by an internet date (Latifah) from a lawyers chatroom. Expect lots of jargon. (You will enjoy it even more if you have NOT seen trailers.) GRADE = “B+”

Oscar Ratings Hurt by War

Oscar Ratings Hurt by War Monday March 24 4:00 PM ET Bombs dropped, but not over Baghdad. Instead, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore caused more of a ruckus with his antiwar acceptance speech than either of the two ABC newsbreaks aired during last night’s bizarro Oscar telecast. And Moore wasn’t the only one to leave Hollywood’s […]

Lisa Marie Discusses Her Marriages

[b]Lisa Marie Talks About Michael and Nick Cage In Rolling Stone[/b] Opening up for the first time about her mid-’90s marriage to Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley says she really did love him but still wonders if he was just using her for publicity. In an interview in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine, […]