For all the earnestness of their acting styles, Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton are often at their best when they're playing unpleasant people -- Costner as the killer-on-the-lam in Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World, say, or Paxton as the psychotic dad in his own Read more

Kevin Costner's passion for epic movie Westerns and Americana dates back to his childhood. Read more

These days, it seems like every major city and resort town has a film festival (or four or five), but television festivals are more rare. The big one is PaleyFest, which takes place in the spring in Los Angeles; there are also the Read more

Hilari Younger-Powell, a Dallas-based interior stylist, was sworn to secrecy when she was selected to compete this season on HGTV's Design Star. Only her husband was allowed to know. Read more

In pop-culture terms, it has been light-years since the "Men in Black" franchise's last installment. Read more

Is Bobcat Goldthwait the most important American filmmaker working today whom nobody is paying attention to? Read more

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The local-TV sweeps races just keep getting more clogged, and in some cases, the winners depend on perspective. KTVT/Channel 11, for instance, is the clear winner in overall viewers at 10 p.m., but Spanish-language KUVN/Channel 23 is the winner at 10 in the 25-54 demo, so prized by advertisers th... Read more

Adrienne Bankert, who comes from Sacramento, will co-anchor CBS 11 This Morning in the latest in a series of DFW morning-show changes. Read more

For Kelly Clarkson, life on Duets has been a case of perpetual deja vu. Read more