Entertainment

Richard Owen

Spike LeeItalian partisan organisations are to stage protests tomorrow at the Italian premiere of outspoken Black US director Spike Lee's new film, Miracle at St. Anna, which they say is full of lies, and insults the memory of the Italian Resistance during the Second World War.

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Forget the sparkly jumpsuits. Forget the girls with blue eye shadow, the boys with feathered hair, the less than impressive dance moves. Forget how uncool you ever felt belting out The Name of the Game in the privacy of your car.

Dwayne Johnson is dropping the name "The Rock" in an attempt to morph from his mega wrestling fame. But Johnson, who next stars opposite Steve Carell in the comedy Get Smart, isn't alone in creating a new stage name.

Marc Wadsworth

Screen stars and film moguls have been flocking to a glitzy American showbiz event described as a liberating antidote to business as usual in Tinseltown.

Deborah Hobson

It’s fascinating to look at how the public undoing of a 26-year-old American ‘pop princess’ has been played out in the news media.Once upon a time Britney Spears had a charmed life: domination of the music charts, a marriage, children, a finely crafted, wholesome, ‘sugar and spice’ image that left fans both cooing and salivating after her.

Geeky Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has launched a new gadget, the Kindle, where readers can access a variety of literature, including The-Latest, I hope, from the touch of a button, writes Chris Gaynor.

Britain's Mobo award nominations are out, and are proving as reliably contentious as ever. Whether it's Echoes magazine angrily and justly protesting the continued, bewildering omission of a soul category or drug addict white singer Amy Winehouse's four nominations giving gossip columnists another excuse to have a dig, the Mobos have always seemed able to generate controversy.