The kids are burning for "Twilight," but will the book's fans mind that the effects are decidedly low-tech, that there are no famous faces and that the whole show hasn't been transplanted to glossy Los Angeles? I doubt it.

Marathon talks between Hollywood's largest actors union and producers broke off early Saturday with the Screen Actors Guild saying it will ask its members to authorize a strike.

The antics of a dog who confuses his day job as the canine superhero in a TV action series with his real-life skills is plenty high-concept. But in "Bolt" -- a blithe, digitally animated (and, in select theaters, 3-D) doggy comedy as zippy as its name -- the fanciful premise only paws the surface of what's going on as we sit in the dark wearing plastic 3-D glasses.

Why are some people amazingly successful -- and other people with the same intelligence or abilities just part of the crowd?

Lewd telephone calls by two British comedians to a well-known actor, which were aired in a BBC radio program, were "grossly offensive" and should never have taken place, the public broadcaster's watchdog group said Friday.

The music of Philadelphia International Records sounds effortless, and no wonder: It was about family, say founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. That's what you hear on all those hits by the O'Jays, Delfonics, Stylistics and others.