Ellen Killoran

Obama's campaign strategy to use Romney's 'Big Bird' comments against him may have backfired.

Tim Burton resurrects a dead dog -- and stop-motion animation -- in "Frankenweenie."

Big Bird references have been flying on Twitter since Romney spoke of cutting PBS funding at Wednesday's presidential debate.

The producers of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" failed to comply with SAG-AFTRA union guidelines, and now the Sundance hit is ineligible for the SAG Awards.

Questions surround the mysterious disappearing financier of the Broadway production of "Rebecca." Producer Ben Sprecher said he never met the man, who died suddenly of malaria in the summer.

The 2012 Emmy Award winner for best drama series is impossible to predict: Will "Homeland" edge out "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men"?

'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' will face off in the tightest Emmy race in years.

Though 'Mad Men' broke new dramatic ground in season 5, and has clearly established itself as an Academy favorite, one thing it can't count on is the pathos vote.

Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" is widely believed to be heavily inspired by the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The studio and the actors have increasingly distanced themselves from the Scientology thread in the weeks leading up to the film's limited theatrical release: Journalists who dare to ask the very question the filmmakers provoke run the risk of being dismissed as sensationalists.

NY1 turns 20 this week and the unexpectedly successful New York news channel's star anchor Pat Kiernan is restless, ready to move on to bigger venues. Still, he says, he knows how lucky he's been: "I have landed in absolutely the best spot as far as the changing economics and patterns of the news business."

The 2007 suicides of Duncan and Blake posthumously captured the imaginations of countless people who had never heard of the couple but were haunted by images published in news stories and on the Web. Five years later, questions remain about the media coverage of their deaths,

Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play an estranged couple who can't stay away from each other.

"I think he has taken the first step," Adam Penenberg said. "He admitted what he did, unlike Stephen Glass."

Tablet editor claims the site has been experiencing sophisticated attacks specifically targeting the magazine.

It is difficult to reconcile the accusations that TomKat was merely a contractual agreement with the way the split has played out so far -- with Cruise convincingly playing the role of the jilted husband and Holmes the long-suffering wife who can't get away from him fast enough. On the other hand, the hasty settlement is more suggestive of a premeditated ending than a knock-down, drag-out fight would have been.

The actress appears to be cutting all ties to her soon to be ex-husband -- and the Church of Scientology.

Lovable losers can have it all in Seth MacFarlane's wish-fulfillment bromance.

"You guys really suck at journalism," wrote an angry follower of the CNN Breaking News Twitter feed.

Peter Madoff has reportedly agreed to a 10-year prison term.

Smith told Women's Wear Daily she expects to be taken to the woodshed for the way she broke the news of Nora Ephron's fatal illness.

"Everyone says, 'You have to be transparent, you have to be honest and open,'and then you are -- and then people want her head on a plate."

The auction is expected to raise more than three million pounds.

Don Draper is haunted by the men whose lives he took -- and the man he used to be.

The central character in Aaron Sorkin's coming HBO drama 'The Newsroom' is a registered Republican, but he doesn't advertise it.

Twitter first broke the news.

Another key player leaves Sterling Draper Cooper Pryce -- and this time, it's permanent.

It's hard to believe, but Season 5 of Mad Men is coming to a close in two short weeks. That means only two more full seasons before we say our final goodbyes to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and a dramatic departure is all but guaranteed. Mark our words: Someone will behave badly.

Local reporter suggests that Daisey is responsible for the New York Times investigation of factory conditions at Foxconn.

We don't do business with those kinds of people.