With numerous exceptions, Robert De Niro's filmography has generally been divided between early drama and late comedy. In accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, De Niro leaned heavily on the latter.Sunday at the Golden Globes, De Niro — never one for self-congratulation — declined to play up his iconography, and instead was happy to parody it.Rather than tout accomplishments such as his performances in "Taxi Driver" or "The Godfather, Part II" or "Goodfellas," De Niro…See More

The original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning "God of Carnage" will reunite for a six-week run at the Ahmanson Theatre.Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden — together with director Matthew Warchus — are set to resume their darkly comic domestic battles from April 5 through May 15.The play, by "Art" playwright Yasmina Reza, is set in a gentrified section of Brooklyn where two married couples meet to sort out a playground fight between their sons. The meeting…See More

Curtain up! Light the lights! Spider-Man returned to the stage without any apparent hitches Thursday, a day after two performances were canceled due to a scary fall that left a stuntman seriously injured.New safety precautions didn't seem to prevent the cast of Broadway's costliest show from hitting the heights in nearly 40 aerial maneuvers.Before the $65 million show could resume Thursday, producers had to give final confirmation to the state Department of Labor that they had enacted safety…See More

CBS will promote its new Tom Selleck drama "Blue Bloods" from its Friday dead zone to a Wednesday slot for four weeks in January.The network will also give new romantic comedy "Mad Love" the plum post-"How I Met Your Mother" slot at 8:30 p.m. beginning February 21."Blue Bloods," which is averaging more than 12 million viewers on Fridays, will begin its Wednesday 10 p.m. tryout January 19. It will displace "The Defenders," which will move to Fridays at 8 p.m. effective February 4.After "Blue…See More

As her many fans know, Oprah Winfrey champions a few golden rules: Take charge of your life ... look beyond yourself to learn how others took charge ... always remember if you can dream it, you can do it.Another Oprah principle the wise know to heed: Never bet against her.That's a rule worth keeping in mind especially now, as the long-awaited OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network gears up for its premiere on New Year's Day.The bold ambition of this venture would spark doubts if there were anybody else's…See More

The app is far too powerful a tool to be limited to mobile phones.In 2010, the developer and music industries took bold steps to apply this burgeoning distribution model to a range of new devices and platforms. Take Pandora, the personalized Internet radio service that became the killer app for music on the iPhone when it was first introduced in 2008. Having expanded to every available smart-phone platform, the Pandora app has since jumped to such new devices as the iPad, Internet-connected TVs…See More

Thomas Kail is having lunch in the theater district when his iPhone resting in the middle of the restaurant table starts buzzing. He casually looks down to check who's calling. It's Ben Affleck.Kail hits "decline."Then he laughs as his companion's eyes go wide.It turns out that the 33-year-old director is playing a joke: It wasn't Affleck on the phone at all. Kail was just using an app that simulates a call from whomever the user wants. He has delighted friends by refusing to answer calls from…See More