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The Rum Diary is based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel of the same name.

Alec Baldwin can’t make up his mind. The “30 Rock” actor, who just announced he is launching a podcast on New York’s WNYC, has been airing spots on public radio since last fall telling them not to give to public radio.

Scott Evans Dekraai, who's accused of killing his ex-wife and seven others in a shooting spree at a Seal Beach, Calif. beauty salon, is expected to be charged with murder when the charges are filed Friday.

Hermes Equity Ownership Services is the latest firm to call for a major restructuring of the media company's corporate governance.

Actress Lindsay Lohan shocked the onlookers with stained and decaying teeth when she posed on the red carpet at the premiere of THQ's Saints Row: The Third in Los Angeles on Thursday night

Oscar organizers Thursday said they received entrants from 63 countries for this year's foreign language film award, including a first-time submission from New Zealand called The Orator.

Prosecutors were close to wrapping up their case in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor after a top state witness on Thursday slammed the physician's treatment of the late pop star.

Half of all Americans have heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and of the people who have heard of it, a plurality support its message, according to a poll released this week.

After suspicions that Beyonce appeared for an interview on Australia's Sunday Night television program with a fake baby bump, she is now out to prove her point.

A sleep medicine expert testified on Thursday that Michael Jackson's reliance on the painkiller Demerol could have led to insomnia, but said the singer's doctor still erred by giving him propofol to sleep.

Anger at high tuition bills and a lack of jobs propelled U.S. college students into streets and quadrangles on Thursday in the latest offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

Even when Lindsay Lohan is doing some good, people have a problem with it.

Creeps have been around long before the Internet. They were called Peeping Toms. Or worse, rapists. But now the Internet age has exposed a new kind of creep -- the hacker who pries into the personal information of others.

Claudio Sabatini, the owner of Italian League team Virtus Bologna, is making a final ploy to get Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant to play at least one game for his team in Italy while the NBA continues its lockout.

The Mexican army paraded captured Los Zetas boss Carlos Oliva Castillo, nicknamed The Frog, in front of the media on Thursday, proudly displaying their latest victory in the country's ongoing war on drugs. But will the arrest have any effect on Mexico's increasingly violent drug war?

A gunman opened fire at a busy hair salon in the Southern California coastal town of Seal Beach on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that left eight people dead and another critically wounded, police said.

Handsome leading man Antonio Banderas has starred in major Hollywood films such as Shrek and Zorro, but the Spanish actor's most enduring collaborations have been with fellow countryman Pedro Almodovar.

Rage Against the Machine lead guitarist Tom Morello delighted Occupy Wall Street protestors at Zuccotti Park on Thursday with a rendition of This Land is Your Land.

Scott Evans Dekraai was arrested Thursday morning and will be charged in the shooting that killed eight people at a hair salon in Seal Beach, Calif., on Wednesday.

Texan Michael Morton was exonerated by a Texas appeals court on Wednesday after spending nearly 25 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

An Amtrak train crashed into another train late Wednesday injuring 17 people aboard the two trains in California.