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Eddie Murphy did not like losing the Academy Award for best supporting actor to Alan Arkin last night. He split the show — exit stage left! — as soon Arkin’s name was announced. Murphy didn’t stay to see Jennifer Hudson win best supporting actress in "Dreamgirls" or his fellow castmates Hudson, Beyonce, Keith Robinson and Anoki Noni Rose perform the show’s nominated songs in a stellar staging by "Dreamgirls" director/writer Bill Condon, who wasn't an Oscar nominee. That may have been the problem with "Dreamgirls" all along, as I’ve suggested before: Much as the movie depends on a song called...

Truck Came To A Stop With Music Still Playing (CBS) CHICAGO Police on Sunday were looking for the person responsible for shooting and killing an ice cream truck driver on Chicago’s West Side. It happened around 7 p.m. Saturday in the 1800 block of South Harding Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood. Authorities said the truck came to a rest with its music still playing over the loudspeakers after the shooting. The ice cream truck driver, Hector Jimenez, 34, of 4520 S. Hermitage Av., was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 8:01 p.m. Saturday, according to a spokesman with the...

The failure of "Alexander," the newspaper wrote, has "brutally exposed the cultural and moral divide which slices America in two." Uh-huh. "It is being suggested that a film about a global warrior with dyed blond hair and waxed legs was never going to conquer an America fresh out of a presidential election in which gay rights became a major issue." Is there another America they might be talking about? Major issue? Brutally exposed? The last thing an American movie brutally exposed was Kathy Bates in the hot-tub scene of "About Schmidt."

Well, it picks up right where the last one left off, both in terms of the thoroughly modern Marty courtship between the titular swamp ogre and Princess Fiona, and in terms of Dreamworks' attempt to turn random, satire-devoid pop cultural references into the new language of fairy tales. (The opening montage "zings" Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man; the main story line is mostly Meet the Parents.) Unfortunately for the studio, its new creation is at least six months behind the curve: The de rigueur digs at Disney come well after Pixar's emancipation, while the jabs at metrosexuality are too...

In Hollywood they are calling The Adventures of Pluto Nash a turkey, a stinker and perhaps one of the biggest box office disasters of all-time.Unfortunately for Australian film company Village Roadshow, it co-produced the movie.Pluto Nash, a sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy, reportedly cost $US100 million to shoot but made just $US2.2 million at the box office last weekend when it debuted in North American theatres.The dismal opening, according to analysts, has put the film on track to make just $US5 million in cinemas.If so, Pluto Nash will take a place in Hollywood's hall of shame with big budget lemons...