Saying a Best Picture winner is overrated is quite simple. If you think a movie is terrible and it won Best Picture ipso facto it is overrated. But what about an underrated Best Picture winner?

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sit beside Steve Martin for a screening of "The Jerk," share a theater with Mike Myers for a showing of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery"

LOS ANGELES (AP) - They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney's face.

NEW YORK (AP) - At first glance, the world of ''Mad Men'' seems as distant from the here and now as Neptune. Welcome to an ambitious new drama on cable's AMC, and to the Sterling Cooper advertising agency perched high above Madison Avenue. The year is 1960.

Billy Bob Thornton credits his screenwriting career with an inspirational talk from late filmmaker Billy Wilder. The Hollywood actor decided to pursue a second career as a movie writer after a chat with Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplays for Some Like It Hot, The Apartment and The Seven Year Itch, and his decision was proved right when he won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1997's Sling Blade.

Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now has topped a list of the "top 50 films to see before you die." The war drama, starring Robert Duvall, was selected ahead of Jack Nicholson classic Chinatown, which came in fourth place, and cult favorite Donnie Darko in ninth.

Movie veteran Shirley MacLaine has hit out at her younger co-stars in recent movies In Her Shoes and Rumor Has It for being too self-obsessed to take advantage of her advice and experience. The actress was bursting to share stories with Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman - but claims they only wanted to talk about themselves.