As the decade reaches its conclusion, you'll undoubtedly come across many lists. Lists that purport to tell you the best, the top, the cream of the decade as they relate to pop culture. You're also certain to come across many lists that claim to rank the "greatest" of the ten year period from 2000-2009. But what does that really mean?

"Greatest" should be something entirely different from what we usually associate with these lists. Mostly, these lists claim to rank the best - something that is only truly possible were a listmaker to, say, see every single movie in a given decade. If...

After six long years, we may finally discover the ultimate truth. Today, the second "X-Files" movie hits theaters a decade after the first movie and six years after the series went off the air. All that time apart from Mulder and Scully has inevitably left fans feeling disconnected from the characters and casual viewers forgetting the show altogether.

This will probably result in the film being a massive financial failure (the first movie barely cracked $80 million at a time when 20 million people tuned in every week), but for the true X-Philes out there "The X-Files: I Want to Believ...

Comedians including Ray Romano, Martin Short and Jeff Garlin will pay tribute to late actor Peter Boyle at a fundraising event next month. Boyle, who played Romano's father in TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, died in 2006 after a battle with bone marrow cancer.

"Celebrating Peter Boyle: An Evening Of Comedy With Family And Friends" takes place at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre & Club in Los Angeles on November 10 and will also feature funnymen Fred Willard and Richard Lewis.

All proceeds from the event will go to the International Myelome Foundation's Peter Boyle Memorial Fund.

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Happy Birthday to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (1944), Belgian martial arts actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (1956), Indian actor Om Puri (1950), Mork & Mindy actress Pam Dawber (1951), novelist Terry McMillan (1951), Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore (1946), football player/coach Mike Ditka (1939), Everybody Loves Raymond actor Peter Boyle (1935), Patton portrayer George C. Scott (1927; d. 1999), German actor Klaus Kinski (1926; d. 1991), and rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry (1926).

2006 was a great year in the entertainment world; however, let us not forget those who entertained us for generations but have moved on. We look back on those entertainers and cultural icons who left us in 2006 to pay our respects...

Jazz, R&B and pop singer Lou Rawls, lost a two year fight with brain and lung cancer (1/6). He was 72. Prolific film star of the 50s, 60s and 70s and star of such hits as Alfie and The Poseidon Adventure, Shelley Winters at age 85 (1/14). 60s soul star Wilson Pickett, who brought us such hits as Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour age 64; of a heart a...

Chevy Chase, Alan Alda and Sopranos stars Lorraine Bracco and Steven Van Zandt were among the 250 mourners who celebrated the life of actor Peter Boyle at a memorial service in New York Monday. The long list of celebrities at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel service also included the cast of Boyle's TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Folk singer Judy Collins and trumpeter Chris Botti performed at the moving ceremony. Boyle died last week after a long battle with heart disease and cancer.

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Ray Romano is partly relieved his pal and Everybody Loves Raymond castmate Peter Boyle died on Tuesday because the actor was in severe pain in the weeks leading up to his death. Boyle, 71, lost his battle with cancer and heart disease late on Tuesday night and Romano was among the first people to get a call from his wife about the star's passing.

The comic admits the news was shocking at first, but he was glad his friend was in no more pain.

He says, "I visited him three times... in the last three months I had gone to New York... He was ill, yeah, I mean, this is still a shock b...

Peter Boyle is being remembered publicly by the cast of the TV comedy show that earned him seven straight Emmy nominations, as "a great dad." Brad Garrett and Doris Roberts, who played Boyle's son and wife respectively in TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond, have paid tribute to the 71-year-old actor, who died on Tuesday night after a long battle with heart disease and cancer.

Garrett, 46, says, "I think of Peter and I smile. I laugh and I think about what I learned from him as an actor and a human being. He was a compassionate man and a great dad. I knew that he was ill but he was strong ...

Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Boyle died at the New York Presbyterian Hospital last night. He was 71. Boyle, best known in recent years for playing Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond, had been suffering from multiple myeloma - a form of cancer - and heart disease.

Boyle was a versatile and talented actor, excelling in both comedy and dramatic roles. He famously played it straight as Robert Redford's campaign manager in 1972 film The Candidate before switching to farce by playing the monster in Mel Brooks horror spoof Young Frankenstein two years later.

Boyle's TV career ea...

Happy Birthday to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (1944), Belgian martial arts actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (1956), Indian actor Om Puri (1950), Mork & Mindy actress Pam Dawber (1951), author Terry McMillan (1951), Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore (1946), football player/coach Mike Ditka (1939), Everybody Loves Raymond actor Peter Boyle (1935), Patton portrayer George C. Scott (1927; d. 1999), German actor Klaus Kinski (1926; d. 1991), and rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry (1926).

Beloved actor Peter Boyle is fighting reports he's close to death after being diagnosed with heart disease. The 70-year-old star, who became a TV favorite in Everybody Loves Raymond, has reportedly been denied a new heart because of his age and friends fear for his life.

But the actor is refuting the claims, made in tabloid the National Enquirer, and his publicist Meghan Prophet insists he pulled out of a charity benefit in July because he was battling the flu and reports have made too much of his health. Boyle has suffered a stroke and a mild heart attack in the past, and friends tel...

Happy Birthday to The Cardigans guitarist Peter Svensson (1974), singer Nonchalant (1973), Sponge bassist Tim Cross (1966), actor Vincent Spano (1962), actress Erin Moran (1961), jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (1961), martial artist/actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), actress Pam Dawber (1951), actor Joe Morton (1947), actor Peter Boyle (1935), singer/guitarist Chuck Berry (1926).