Finding 'Sugar Man': Rodriguez Reflects on a Crazy Year with a Hollywood Ending

Finding 'Sugar Man': Rodriguez Reflects on a Crazy Year with a Hollywood Ending (Video)

THR catches up with singer Rodriguez on the eve of the 85th Academy Awards, at which 'Searching for Sugar Man' is widely expected to win the best doc Oscar.

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Oscars: 25 biggest snubs ever!

Oscars: 25 biggest snubs ever!

Still fuming about Ben Affleck's Best Director omission? It's not the first time fan faves got the cold shoulder

Oscars: 25 biggest snubs ever!

Oscars: 25 biggest snubs ever!

Still fuming about Ben Affleck's Best Director omission? It's not the first time fan faves got the cold shoulder

R.I.P. Richard Collins, blacklisted screenwriter

R.I.P. Richard Collins, blacklisted screenwriter

Screenwriter and producer Richard Collins has died at the age of 98. Collins, who started out working at Columbia Pictures as a script reader, was the last surviving member of the "Hollywood 19," the nickname given to the "unfriendly witnesses" who were called before the House Un-American Activities Committee during its investigation of Communism's infiltration of the movie industry, which ended in 10 of them being sent to prison for refusing to "name names."

Collins had been an active member of the Communist Party in the 1930s, though he later said he became disillusioned with the ideological restrictions it tried to place on writers. One of the projects that brought Collins to the attention of HUAC was Song Of Russia, a 1944 MGM production on which he shared the screenplay credit with another prominent victim of the blacklist, Paul Jarrico. Song Of Russia was a idealistic in its portrayal ...

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Fired Rhythm & Hues Workers Sue Over Terminations Without Notice

Fired Rhythm & Hues Workers Sue Over Terminations Without Notice

A class-action lawsuit is filed on behalf of about 250 employees let go from the bankrupt visual effects house.

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'Les Mis': Interpreting a 'Dream'

'Les Mis': Interpreting a 'Dream'

''I Dreamed a Dream'' hit in 1980, now it's timeless: Track milestone versions of beloved ballad

R.I.P. Buck Biggers, co-creator of Underdog

TV: Newswire: R.I.P. Buck Biggers, co-creator of Underdog

W. Watts “Buck” Biggers—co-creator of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, Klondike Kat, the Go Go Gophers, and other classic cartoons—has died at the age of 85. Biggers, a former advertising executive, launched his Total TeleVision production company in 1960, with the express purpose of creating animated TV series that could be used to promote General Mills cereals. The most enduring of these was Underdog, the superhero spoof voiced by Wally Cox, about a humble Shoeshine Boy who could transform into a rhyming canine caped crusader.
General Mills dropped its sponsorship in 1969, after which Biggers shut down Total TeleVision and went to work for NBC. But Underdog lived on, enjoying a lengthy run in syndication, appearing as a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, being adapted  and being adapted into a 2007 live-action movie and a series of children’s comic books. Biggers also revived Underdog as a ...

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