The Latest Breaking News from Mel Brooks

If you don't count the years when he worked as a drummer, a "tummler" and a teenage comic in the Catskills, Mel Brooks began his show business career in television, writing for Sid Caesar at the dawn of the medium. He returned in the mid-1960s to co-create "Get Smart," and…

The comedy of Mel Brooks might as well be its own genre. It’s broad. It’s irreverent. It’s giddily absurd. And no more so than in the 1981 movie “History of the World, Part I,” wherein various events on the human timeline are filtered through this winking sensibility, transforming something like…

American actor Viola Davis becomes the 18th person to reach EGOT status, after winning her first Grammy Award.

Actor is 18th person to claim grand slam of an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and now a Grammy

LOS ANGELES — Add yet another honor to Viola Davis' long list of accolades.

Feldon's engrossing memoir reminds us that we can recast the past — even come to treasure it

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Ben Affleck was delightful, Justin Timberlake a drag and Keanu so handsome I couldn’t speak. Here’s everything you always wanted to know about A-listers (but were afraid to ask)

Peter O’Toole was famed for his commanding, Oscar-nominated turns. Mark Linn-Baker was a fledgling stage actor. Richard Benjamin, who’d made a leading-man splash in "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Westworld," had a few TV directing credits. The sum of these unlikely parts was the zesty 1982 movie comedy "My Favorite Year," starring…