Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg came close to financial ruin before landing a job as co-presenter of The View.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fantasia is the latest star to get her life turned into a reality show. VH1 said Friday that its cameras will begin following the singer for a series that it hopes to premiere early next year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The producers of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" toiled for 18 years on their strange romantic epic, so simply bringing it to the screen - let alone grabbing a leading 13 Academy Awards nominations - was a victory.

LOS ANGELES — For weeks, Hollywood had been criticized for not contributing enough to defeat a ballot initiative in California that would ban same-sex marriage. Now, members of the film and TV industries

LOS ANGELES (AP) - "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" has solved the mystery of who will replace departing CBS series star William Petersen: It's Laurence Fishburne.

R&B star Kelly Rowland wants to follow in the footsteps of her former Destiny's Child bandmate Michelle Williams and take to the New York stage. The "My Boo" hitmaker is reportedly keen to try her hand at acting on Broadway, and has instructed her manager, former bandmate Beyonce Knowles' father Matthew Knowles, and his team to help her land a role in a hit show.

Music drama The Five Heartbeats has topped a list naming the best urban movies of all time. The 1991 film, which was written and produced by its star Robert Townsend, follows the rise and fall of a 1960s African-American vocal group.

Oprah Winfrey's "The Color Purple" stage musical will fade to black on February 24 when the curtain comes down on the Broadway show after more than 940 performances.

As with any great duo, the soul-sational pairing of Bubbles & Cheesecake is a delicately balanced tightrope act - two distinct elements in a yin-yang harmony that enhances its partners' similarities and orchestrates their contrasts.

Soul veteran Chaka Khan is getting nervous about her impending Broadway debut. The I'm Every Woman singer, 54, is set to appear in the stage adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple early next year.