People and Celebs

Writer-director Judd Apatow has been going city to city to talk about "Funny People," his third movie as a director after "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up."

The Jonas Brothers are on the phone and getting a little testy about questions regarding the current tour's jump in ticket prices from $47.50 to $89.50.
Kevin, at 21 the oldest JoBro, is explaining a theater-in-the-round stage concept he helped design that makes the front rows stretch the whole length of the arena.

Talk about the real deal.
Actor Jeremy Renner, recalling scenes shot over a week in the scorching Jordanian desert, said, "That was a tough one, physically. There was no shade for 18 hours. That was no makeup, that was all real. Real flies, real sweat, real sand, real pain."

He's done it all -- the good, the bad, the sad and the really funny.
That's probably what comes to mind when people think of John Lithgow. The award-winning actor starred in the television series "Third Rock From the Sun" as a leader of an alien band studying Earth. Now his followers are on Twitter, and they continue to fill the seats for his stage performances.

For multihyphenate performer Jamie Foxx, his career has always gone back to one tried-and-true love: music.

Over the past 50 years, Joan Baez has been celebrated, denigrated, loved and hated. She stood up to foes and friends alike for causes she believed in.

The history of cinema is the history of men gazing at women. Male movie critics (most notably Roger Ebert and Richard Corliss) and female academics (such as feminist professor Judith Mayne) have made this point, saying women are constantly viewed from male-oriented angles, scripts and directions.

Director-writer Lynn Shelton's "Humpday" makes thoughtful comedy from a high-concept premise that could easily have produced a crude farce.

Speaking over the phone, Tom Kenny sounds lot more like an overworked middle-aged dad than the hyperkinetic voice behind one of TV's biggest cartoon hits ever, Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants" -- now marking its 10th anniversary on the air.

So this is Francis Ford Coppola at 70, relaxing on his front porch on his estate in California's wine country. He seems so serene and, yes, youthful that it is impossible to discern the director portrayed in "Hearts of Darkness," his wife Eleanor's documentary of a harried, manic filmmaker on the out-of-control set of "Apocalypse Now."