Author MichaelLiss

Former President George W. Bush picked up a major award for an unprecedented sixth consecutive year at the Shockwaves NME Awards in London last night. He was yet again honored as Villain of the Year.His fellow ...

Nothing says summer superhero blockbuster like a schlubby Jewish comedian and a French art-house director. Michel Gondry has now signed on to direct Seth Rogen in the film version of The Green Hornet.Hong Kong ...

It's been three years to the month since the much-beloved Arrested Development went off the air, but fans have finally received the news they've been waiting for. Michael Cera, the last major cast member to hol...

The new musical Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark slung its web another step closer to Broadway, with producers announcing it would start previews in January at the Hilton Theater. The show will mark the Broadway d...

More than 10,000 works in Yiddish are now available online. The Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, a joint project between the National Yiddish Book Center and the Internet Archive, has gone live.The col...

The Boss sure has been busy. A new album. A Super Bowl half-time show. The announcement of a headlining slot at Bonnaroo. And now a public spat with Ticketmaster.It seems Bruce Springsteen has finally realized ...

A Transformers movie franchise is one thing. But next up on Hasbro's development slate: A live-action feature based on Candy Land?The first film to be produced in a deal between the game company and Universal, ...

The Beastie Boys will be putting their roots down at Bonnaroo this year along with two shows from the recently reunited Phish. Bruce Springsteen and Nine Inch Nails also nabbed prominent slots at the fest, whic...

Christian Bale's on-set explosion, already an internet hit after being posted on TMZ.com, may soon be taking over the clubs, too. Audio from the outburst has been remixed with dance beats.The Dark Knight star h...

Lil Wayne is the latest artist to fall victim to lawyers for Abkco Music. The prolific rapper has pulled the song "Playing with Fire" from his smash album Tha Carter III in a settlement with the music...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the film based on Michael Chabon's debut novel, had a good week during Sundance 2009. Too bad it actually premiered at Sundance 2008. A full year later, it has finally found a distr...

One sentence floated above the rest of the crowd noise every time it was uttered at Sundance this year, and uttered over and over again it was. It usually came out sounding something like this: "Mariah Car...