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Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff T his country produces a wealth of film and television stars, but there are only a handful who decide to frequently come back home after finding [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Tom Cruise will only be happy once he's dead. This is the one overriding message audiences can infer after spending decades watching the superstar push his [...]

Byline: Jaime Weinman 1 Get your foot in the door O'Hara got her start at the Toronto branch of Second City--as a waitress. She parlayed that gig into an audition [...]

Byline: JOHN DOYLE; Staff TELEVISION We didn't pay enough attention to the series Servant of the People when it was on Netflix here for a while. Multiple episodes can now [...]

Lead CANADIAN PROVOCATEUR OF THE YEAR: SIMU LIU If Hollywood's film and television industry is like a mystery box, then Canada's film and television sector is like a mystery box [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN 60W JENNIFER LAWRENCE Just as the Twilight saga enters its, uh, twilight period, here comes another adaptation of a tween fiction mega-seller. Fans of The Hunger Games [...]

Byline: WARREN CLEMENTS ON DEMAND wclements@globeandmail.com Before they wrote the hit comedy The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore concocted an antic script in which two teams of bank robbers [...]

Byline: APARITA BHANDARI; Special to The Globe and Mail FILM At first, it seemed to be part of the show. Moments after Shah Rukh Khan strode onto the stage at [...]

Byline: CP THE BUZZ Toronto -- Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan will walk the red carpet at the Toronto premiere of his upcoming science-fiction extravaganza. Promoters say the Indian superstar [...]

Byline: LYNN CROSBIE POP ROCKS / TELEVISION lcrosbie@globeandmail.com Piers Morgan, ever-desperate for ratings, had the notoriously belligerent Sean Penn on his show this week, and let him ramble on about [...]

Byline: Liam Lacey and Gayle MacDonald TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The It Boy Ryan Gosling Most recently caught on YouTube breaking up a street scuffle in his adopted city of [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN 20W / SPIKE LEE Where should Spike Lee go? 'Straight to hell,' according to Tyler Perry, who lashed out at Lee this week at a press conference [...]

Byline: MAGGIE WROBEL DECODER British actor Russell Brand, currently starring in a remake of the Dudley Moore classic Arthur, has made quite a splash since coming over from across the [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN 40W / DANNY McBRIDE Once heralded as the most hilarious man to walk the earth since Will Ferrell and a former GQ magazine Funnyman of the Year, [...]

20W CHARLIE SHEEN Currently undergoing rehab at home, Sheen seems to be trying to improve a public image that has been hit hard lately, what with all the news of [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN 40W / ADAM SANDLER What's going on with you, Sandler? After rising to fame on a wave of your brilliant immaturity, it grew tired by the time [...]

Byline: MAGGIE WROBEL DECODER Typecasting has never been a problem for Jennifer Connelly, who has played myriad characters, from a less-than-perfect big sister in the cult hit Labyrinth to Charles [...]

Byline: MAGGIE WROBEL DECODER In the Coen brothers' new take on the John Wayne classic True Grit, Matt Damon plays Texas ranger LaBoeuf, a man marked by his steely determination [...]

Byline: James Bradshaw TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / 2009 / CELEB OF THE DAY Ed Norton has taken his penchant for complicated, multilayered, and (literally) split personalities to its logical [...]

Byline: JAMES BRADSHAW STRATFORD / FEORE RETURNS A man of (so) many parts STRATFORD, ONT. -- Colm Feore has the perfect word for it: scattershot. Its an apt description of [...]

Byline: Reuters Tom Cruise has defied expectations and won favourable reviews from German critics for his portrayal of a Prussian army officer who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER Madge and A-Rod The Couple A self-made blonde sex-bomb who appeared nude in Playboy and a New York Yankee superstar who refers to the singer-actress as his [...]

Byline: Johanna Schneller Paul Gross gets a lot of splashy credits on his passion project, Passchendaele, which kicked off TIFF last night. It's a sweeping epic, a bona fide Canadian [...]

Byline: AP Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Katherine Heigl is staying on the cast of Grey's Anatomy, despite voicing displeasure about last season's script quality, a network executive says. Heigl's previous [...]

1In an age of shameless promotion, you'd hardly know that one of the most popular videos on YouTube - dorky Matt Harding dancing his way across more than 60 locales [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER American actor Thomas McCarthy is doubtless best known for his work in TV and movies. The Wire, Flags of Our Father, All the King's Men and Syriana [...]

Byline: AP Los Angeles -- If there's one thing Canadian-born actress Pamela Anderson is wishing for in 2008, it's less 'insanity.' Her latest posting on her Web diary refers to [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER In Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night, Australian actor Geoffrey Rush plays one of the world's first power [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER So it's Tuesday afternoon, and I'm sitting at an outdoor coffee bar in Toronto's Kensington Market, watching some guy hit on Lisa Ray. Can't say as I [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER It can't be easy being the poster boy for a botched career. Ten years ago, Cuba Gooding Jr. seemed to be heading straight up: He'd wrenched hearts [...]

Byline: BOB STRAUSS; Special to The Globe and Mail LOS ANGELES -- It's hard to think of Ryan Gosling as Canada's most prestigious young movie star. Until you watch him [...]