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Tyler Perry's 'Reunion' Tops Box Office (AP)

February 26, 2006

Tyler Perry (C) who wrote, produced, directed and stars in the film 'Madea's Family Reunion', poses with his mother Maxine (R) and Aunt Mayola (L) at the film's premiere in Hollywood February 22, 2006. The film, based on Perry's stage production of the same name, follows the adventures of southern matriarch Madea and her family. Perry loosely based the character Madea on his mother and aunt. The film opens in the U.S. on February 24. REUTERS/Fred ProuserAP - Tyler Perry fans reunited at theaters for another tale of mad black women. "Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion," a comic drama in which writer-director Perry also stars in three roles, debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $30.25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.


Top French film awards march to Audiard's "Beat" (Reuters)

February 26, 2006

Reuters - "De battre mon coeur s'est arrete" (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) won eight Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, on Saturday, while Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winner "Million Dollar Baby" took the prize for best foreign film.

"Madea" comedy beats up box office rivals (Reuters)

February 26, 2006

Reuters - Playwright Tyler Perry, who turned his crazy-granny "Madea" character into a lucrative cottage industry, returned to the top of the box office on Sunday, exactly one year after stunning the industry with a No. 1 bow for his first film.

Darren McGavin dies at 83 (Reuters)

February 26, 2006

Reuters - Emmy-winning actor Darren McGavin, who played grouchy monster chaser Carl Kolchak in the 1970s television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," died on Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital, according to a statement on his Web site. He was 83.

Hollywood anxiously awaits the Oscar envelope (Reuters)

February 26, 2006

French actor Pierre Richard acknowledges applause after he received an Honorary Cesar award , Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006 during the Cesars Awards, the French Academy Awards in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)Reuters - Hollywood is turning all eyes on its own brand of gold medal -- Oscar gold -- with more questions than answers about likely winners in the week leading up to the world's top film awards.


Image Awards Honor Jamie Foxx for Music (AP)

February 26, 2006

Actor/comedian Chris Rock, right, executive producer of the television show 'Everybody Hates Chris,' accepts the award for Outstanding Comedy Series during the 37th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006. Looking on at left are cast members Terry Crews, top, Tequan Richmond, middle, and Imani Hakim. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - Jamie Foxx's quest for musical stardom got a boost Saturday at the 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards, where the Oscar-winning actor was picked as best male musical artist.


'Crash' wins best picture at NAACP's Image Awards (Reuters)

February 26, 2006

Reuters - With only a week to go before the Academy Awards, the Oscar-nominated film "Crash" was named best picture by the NAACP at its 37th annual Image Awards on Saturday.

Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies at 81 (AP)

February 26, 2006

Andy Griffith, left, and Don Knotts pose in a 1986 file photo. Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' died Friday night, Feb. 24, 2006 of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. He was 81. (AP Photo)AP - Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has died. He was 81.