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The Writers Guild of America strike is heading into day four, with chants and signs that leave a little something to be desired. These are the folks who right sitcoms and movies, and the best they've got is "No Money, No Funny." Dimassimo Goldstein copywriter Annie O'Rourke debuts some new possibilities.

A new series called Quarterlife is debuting on MySpace this Sunday. Its producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, hope the Internet may be able to support the kind of quality programming that TV has failed to sustain.

The film American Gangster topped the box office this weekend. Americans love to watch gangsters — men who buck the system and whack the competition. Producer Mark Rowland talks about the popularity of the gangster in American culture, and the anti-hero's resonance in hip-hop culture.

In five decades of filmmaking, director Sidney Lumet has shepherded some of Hollywood's biggest stars to Oscar nominations. His latest film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, also has a pretty stellar cast, and Oscar may just come calling again.

Actor Hugh Grant auctioned the painting for $21 million.

A big-screen adaptation of the blood-soaked Cormac McCarthy novel is the latest from the creators of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Barton Fink.

Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise in a whither-the-war-on-terrorism drama. Everyone's heart is definitely in the right place, but the film amounts to two hectoring lectures and a mountaintop standoff.

James C. Strouse's bittersweet drama observes a few crucial days in the life of a grief-stricken father who can't bring himself to tell his preteen daughters that their mother has been killed while stationed in Iraq.

Christopher Plummer — Baron von Trapp in the film of The Sound of Music — was a regular on many of TV's earliest shows. Now, in the new independent film Man in the Chair, he's playing an old-school curmudgeon who worked on a legendary film.

A new exhibit on the work and letters of Vincent Van Gogh offers a more detailed look at the painter. Painted with Words is based on letters Van Gogh wrote to friend Emile Bernard.