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Boy and girl meet, fall in love, break up and get back together again. The time-tested formula for romantic comedy gets a fresh treatment in a new film co-starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet. Alan Silverman has a look at A Lot Like Love.

Travelers tend to frequently take the cleanliness of toilets as indicative of how civilised a country might be. Modern artists pretty much do the same thing.

Travelers tend to frequently take the cleanliness of toilets as indicative of how civilised a country might be. Modern artists pretty much do the same thing.

Have you ever heard a concise 9 word definition of rock and roll that really nails it?

I've seen a lot of shows by many rock legends, including Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Grateful Dead, and many others, and I have to say that Paul's Superbowl show was the best short rock and roll show in history.

In 1934, when Walt Disney called for a meeting among his artists, a rumor had spread that he was going to shut the studio down and they would all be left unemployed during the Great Depression. Instead he personally told them in his own spellbinding way the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which he intended to make into his first feature length film.

Star Wars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith, is due out May 19, 2005. In the meantime, all we can do is guess how Lucas might choose to close up the loop of storyline connecting the prequels to the original Trilogy.

Being a celebrity means dealing with fan demands for autographs, ranging from polite and appropriate to rude and overbearing.

As the filmmakers who worked on Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ (2004) found out, Biblical Movies can often have a profound effect on their participants.

Novelist Ian Fleming (1908-1964) claimed he based his smooth secret agent character James Bond on Cary Grant. But in 1957 the fifty- three-year old British actor turned down producers Albert"Cubby" Broccoli's and Harry Saltzman's offer to play the super spy on screen in a series of films.

Anti-Semitism is only one species in a zoo of rumours, conspiracy theories, meta histories and metaphysics. Superstitions, prejudices and calumny thrive in the putrid soil of disinformation, mis-information and lack of information.

Anti-Semitism is only one species in a zoo of rumours, conspiracy theories, meta histories and metaphysics. Superstitions, prejudices and calumny thrive in the putrid soil of disinformation, mis-information and lack of information.

The Library of Congress has announced the selection of fifty sound recordings to be added to its National Recording Registry, the Library's two-year-old audio preservation program for the past year. From be-bop to hip-hop to the spoken word, the Registry celebrates the richness and variety of 20th century American recorded sound.

If you own a Bible today, remember the sacrifice of a sixteen-year old girl from a remote village in Wales whose dream came true.

If you own a Bible today, remember the sacrifice of a sixteen-year old girl from a remote village in Wales whose dream came true.