While everyone was buzzing around Hollywood preparing for the Oscars on Sunday, a fun and edgy Independent Spirit Awards was happening down by the Santa Monica beaches on a beautiful sunny Saturday. Starpulse had the opportunity to hit The Official Presenter Gift Lounge backstage to do a bit of celeb spotting.

I walked in at the same time as 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis who has been the hit of the awards show circuit this season with her performance in Beasts of the Southern Wild. She was pretty in pink and she seemed to enjoy Mattel Games' movie-guessing game, Pass the Popcorn. I imagine ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jewels and parties. Stars and stand-ins. Rehearsals and news conferences. So much swag even Hollywood canines could rack up free goodies. The city is abuzz with all things Oscar as celebrities flock from all over the world fortTonight's Academy Awards...

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STAR-STUDDED REHEARSAL: On Sunday, the Kodak Theater will be filled with stars. On Saturday, they appeared one at a time.

The eve of the Academy Awards is rehearsal day for celebrity presenters. One by one, in 15-minute increments, Oscar winners and other famous folks come to the Kodak to walk on stage and...

The second season of Dirt, starring Courteney Cox, will premiere on FX Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 10 PM ET/PT. Ian Hart, Josh Stewart and Alexandra Breckenridge also return as series regulars.

Guest stars include Julian Acosta, Tom Arnold, Laura Allen, Ryan Eggold, Rick Fox, Ashley Johnson, Richard Karn, Sharon Lawrence, Will McCormack, Larry Miller, Jeffrey Nordling, Pablo Schreiber and Kevin Wheatley. Rosanna Arquette is a special guest star in episode 6.

Dirt, a dramatic satire of celebrity culture, reveals the life of Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox), the stalwart, unrelenting edit...

The CW's mysterious new one-hour drama Hidden Palms will debut on Wednesday, May 30 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET). Multi-generational Hidden Palms focuses on Johnny Miller (Taylor Handley), a teen who is struggling to come to terms with two tragedies in the strange and artificial atmosphere of Palm Springs.

In addition to Handley, Hidden Palms features a star-studded ensemble cast including Gail O'Grady and Sharon Lawrence, D.W. Moffett, and fresh faces such as Amber Heard, Michael Cassidy, Ellary Porterfield and Tessa Thompson.

The new series will serve as the lead-in for this season's ...

The SCI FI channel has acquired the rights to multiple made-for-television movies and series from CBS, including Star Trek: Enterprise, the Star Trek prequel series starring Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock. The deal also includes exclusive cable rights to the classic series The Twilight Zone; the series "Tales from the Darkside"; several Stephen King miniseries; made-for-TV movies; and series such as "Haunted," Jake 2.0 and last fall's "Threshold."

“Enterprise,” which ran for four seasons between 2001-2005 on UPN, will premiere in early fall on the SCI FI Channel. The popular antholog...