Entertainment

When we interviewed director Ryan Murphy in Cancun, Mexico about “Eat Pray Love,” his film with Julia Roberts, we grabbed the chance to ask him how he came to cast Charice Pempengco in his hit TV show “Glee.”

I BRING my Kindle everywhere. I just started reading “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins. It was recommended by my son, (stage actor) Joel Trinidad.

NOT BEING ABLE to wear clothes that I liked was frustrating,” said broadcaster Connie Sison of the reason she shed weight.

EUMIR Deodato was rock-star hot when he first played in Manila in the mid-’70s.

I was once told that the role of Grizabella was a “pretty easy gig.” On the surface, it would seem so: Around 12 minutes onstage, only one big aria to sing at the end, and that’s it. Uhhh, no.

WITH KRIS Aquino and Ruffa Gutierrez out of its TV picture, the popular weekend show biz talk-variety show “The Buzz” was overdue for a major re-infusion of hosts.

AS A MOTHER MYSELF, I know where the mom of Wendell Ramos was coming from when she refuted my story about her son being arrested and jailed for a few days.

I’M back from Melbourne and, thankfully, in less pain than I initially thought. It was a very intense rehearsal period for “Cats.”

(Updated 12:41 p.m.) Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off "American Idol" after one season and Jennifer Lopez is poised to step in.

LOS ANGELES - Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off "American Idol" after one season, leaving Fox's hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel.

After a three-week vacation in the United States, presidential sister and controversial TV host Kris Aquino-Yap returned to the Philippines before dawn Friday. She promptly denied rumors circulating that she's pregnant.

Zac Efron likes to say the phrase “Too good to be true.” That line can also sum him up. Is this guy for real?

Robin Padilla told the Inquirer he was “very happy” about his new game show with Kris Aquino, which replaces “Wowowee” starting Saturday, July 31.

If Dick Israel had his way, he’d have sung all night. The veteran character actor’s friends certainly didn’t mind; in fact some of them joined him onstage during the benefit gig held for him Monday at Merk’s Bar Bistro in Greenbelt 3, Makati.

Actress Angelina Jolie took time out Wednesday from her promotional movie tour of South Korea to investigate the fate of repatriated North Korean refugees.

Quentin Tarantino shot his movie about wartime France in Germany to save money but now directors like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are returning to glamorous Paris thanks to generous tax breaks.

LOS ANGELES, California — An American collector has become an overnight multimillionaire after a set of 65 glass negatives he picked up at a garage sale turned out to be genuine Ansel Adams works, he and his lawyer said Tuesday.

It’s officially goodbye for a popular daily noontime show as the television network that launched it decided to replace it starting this Saturday.

NEW YORK—The Walt Disney Co. is adding a new cast of characters to its vast entertainment stable, buying online social game maker Playdom in a deal worth up to $763 million.

LOS ANGELES, California—British actor Daniel Craig will star in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Hollywood's first adaptation of one of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's record-setting Millennium Trilogy, a Sony Pictures official said.