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) - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charles Durning will be honored for lifetime achievement by the Screen Actors Guild.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Larry Gelbart, whose writing for the war sitcom ''M-A-S-H'' defined television in the 1970s, collected his second Humanitas Prize for screenwriting on Tuesday: this time for his lifelong career.

NEW YORK (AP) - Will ''The Sopranos'' end with a whack or a whimper? The HBO series on Sunday night concludes its eight years of mob maneuvering, metaphor-laden dream sequences and mad exclamations of ''Marone!''

The most terrifying hat in movie history went under the hammer for $33,600 in Los Angeles on Saturday when James Bond villain Oddjob's derby was sold at auction. The steel-rimmed hat, worn by actor Harold Sakata, who played henchman Oddjob in 1964 film Goldfinger, was bought by 007 memorabilia hunter Anthony Pugliese III. He plans to display the famous derby at a new pop culture museum in Florida.

Sydney Pollack will receive the 2006 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Board of Governors Award, which is presented annually to an individual who has made significant and enduring contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking. He will be feted during the 20th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony on February 26, 2006, at the Century Plaza Hotel.

Although the movie isn't scheduled to be released until 2008, DreamWorks Animation announced today that two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, international superstar Jackie Chan, and award-winning actor Ian McShane are joining Jack Black in the cast of the computer-animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda." In addition, award-winning actress Lucy Liu is currently in talks with the studio to voice another main role.