LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Peter Berg parlayed successful acting work on TV shows like medical drama “Chicago Hope” to an even greater directing career of movies such as “Friday Night Lights,” which later became a TV series, and the Will Smith action flick “Hancock.” On Friday, Berg’s latest film, alien-invasion actioner “Battleship,” steams into theaters. [...]

“Kanye and Kim, they’re kind of like dual peas in a pod,” small sister Khloe Kardashian says about Kim’s intrigue with Kanye West in a “Keeping Up With a Kardashians” teaser. While not most footage of Kim and Yeezy done it into a clip, a small bit that did will positively hint seductiveness in Sunday’s [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Simon Cowell and Fox television are gambling on pop icon Britney Spears and teen singer Demi Lovato to revive “The X Factor“, but for many media watchers it could be a case of “Oops!…” did they do it again? Spears, 30, and former Disney Channel star Lovato, 19, are expected to [...]

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Britney Spears and former Disney Channel star Demi Lovato officially joined the U.S. version of “The X Factor” on Monday, leading creator Simon Cowell to pledge the second season would “seriously kick butt” when it returns in September. Spears, 30, the world’s biggest pop phenomenon of the 2000s, and Lovato, [...]

(Reuters) – Britney Spears and former Disney Channel star Demi Lovato will join talent show “The X Factor” as judges when the U.S. version of the contest returns to television in September, Fox television and the show’s creator Simon Cowell said on Monday. Cowell said in a Twitter message that Spears, 30, the world’s biggest [...]

Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as “In the Midnight Hour,” ”Hold On, I’m Coming” and “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” died Sunday at [...]