40 Stories on Robert Downey Jr.
Give Robert Downey Jr. a glass of scotch and a suit made of metal, and lines will form around the block. But cast him as a newspaper columnist who befriends a cello-playing homeless man, and these days the only crowds gathering will be for the movie playing next door.
Her character outwits Sherlock Holmes in a scene from the film, out in December
Her thriller Obsessed debuts with $28.5 million in ticket sales
A journalist -- Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times -- meets a homeless guy on the street playing Beethoven on the last two strings on a fiddle.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are just a few who came out Saturday
The seventh and concluding film in the series will open July 15, 2011
Receiving an Academy Award nomination is an honor most actors dream of. For several of this year's Oscar nominees, it still feels like a dream.
When it comes to the Academy Awards, Hollywood has some biases.
PHOTOS: The couple spend time in the hills with the Iron Man star and his wife
"This nomination is not lost on those of us who continue to miss him," his dad, Kim Ledger, tells PEOPLE
Give Robert Downey Jr. a glass of scotch and a suit made of metal, and lines will form around the block. But cast him as a newspaper columnist who befriends a cello-playing homeless man, and these days the only crowds gathering will be for the movie playing next door.
Her character outwits Sherlock Holmes in a scene from the film, out in December
Her thriller Obsessed debuts with $28.5 million in ticket sales
A journalist -- Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times -- meets a homeless guy on the street playing Beethoven on the last two strings on a fiddle.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are just a few who came out Saturday
The seventh and concluding film in the series will open July 15, 2011
Receiving an Academy Award nomination is an honor most actors dream of. For several of this year's Oscar nominees, it still feels like a dream.
When it comes to the Academy Awards, Hollywood has some biases.
PHOTOS: The couple spend time in the hills with the Iron Man star and his wife
"This nomination is not lost on those of us who continue to miss him," his dad, Kim Ledger, tells PEOPLE
"Guy was in great form" with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, says a source
Money is the reported cause of a sidekick swap in the upcoming Robert Downey Jr. sequel
Truly, it's been a summer for jokers -- and I'm not just talking about "The Dark Knight."
Tropic Thunder premiere brings out Tom & Katie, Ben & Christine and the rest of the star-studded cast
Tropic Thunder is pushing the envelope too far for groups representing the mentally disabled
There's no question "Tropic Thunder" takes chances.
"He played a black dude better than anybody," says African-American actor Brandon T. Jackson
The Iron Man star and the filmmaker will revisit the British super sleuth
Ellen Page, Will Smith, Zac Efron & Adam Sandler also win golden popcorn honors
Jack Black, Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell will also hand out golden popcorns
The new Wachowski brothers movie revs up for a vibrantly virtual ride
You might attribute it to 9/11, or simply blame director Joel Schumacher, whose camp take on "Batman" derailed that franchise for several years. But, lately, Hollywood superhero movies have taken themselves awfully seriously.
This new, big, smart, kid-friendly epic is as wonderfully American as 'Batman' and apple pie
On Friday, Marvel Entertainment releases "Iron Man," the saga of Tony Stark, a hard-drinking, amoral war-profiteer who redeems himself by donning high-tech armor and trouncing bad guys. Marvel is in the midst of a similar redemption.
The Iron Man star opens up about his struggle to get clean
The Robert Downey Jr. we've all been waiting for is here
• Reese Witherspoon and Jake
Gyllenhaal, sharing an early breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien in Brentwood,
Calif. Walking in with their arms around each other, the casually dressed
pair shared a table for two in the back, ordering coffee, an omelette and fruit. The pair talked and traded sections of the Los Angeles Times at the table. Later that night, the couple was spotted again – this time at West Hollywood's Chateau Marmont where they celebrated Robert Downey Jr.'s 43rd birthday with Cameron Diaz, Gerard Butler, Ben Stiller and more.
In a Fandango poll, Heath's Joker and the Jones adventure rate high
Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Bridges are a fierce foursome in the newest promo shot released for the upcoming Iron Man movie.
Matthew McConaughey will replace Owen Wilson in the film comedy Tropic Thunder, Variety reports.
The alleged suicide attempt by the actor, known for his happy-go-lucky characters, shocks the movie industry
After nearly four years away from major film work, mother of two Gwyneth Paltrow is again ready for her close-up - and, come the right time, even some more children.
At Comic-Con, 120,000 geeks are being entertained by everyone from an old English monster to a young Mr. Spock
On October 18, 1963, Chuck Berry -- rock 'n' roll founding father, guitar hero, "Johnny B. Goode" composer -- walked out of the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, where he had served about 18 months on morals charges. He was met by three people: his wife, his brother and his father.
Now that Isaiah Washington has been fired from Grey's Anatomy, he wants to set the record straight about his so-called trip to rehab.
There are many theories as to why John Hughes-penned films remain the zenith of teen cinema -- and you'll hear most of them on the "Pretty in Pink: Everything's Duckie Edition," the ultimate high school love triangle between poor-but-fashionable Andie (Molly Ringwald), her devoted, delusional best friend Duckie (Jon Cryer), and the rich-but-allegedly-soulful Blane (Andrew McCarthy).
Richard Linklater's trippy and sinister bad-vibe whatchamacallit "A Scanner Darkly" might be described as an animated movie, only the animation consists of live-action footage that's been painstakingly drawn over, a method known as "interpolated rotoscoping."
Moses, mobsters, and eight other things we recommend this week:
Sandra Bullock and Robert Downey Jr. will receive this year's Hasty Pudding awards at Harvard University.
It might be hard to remember, but there actually was news before the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11. For this edition of the Hype Index, we've torn ourselves away from the disaster coverage...
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