People & Celebrities

By RACHEL LEIBROCK
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
We love penguins. The funny-looking, black-and-white creatures don't live anywhere near the United States (no, not even in Alaska, although you can find them in some U.S.

By BARBARA VANCHERI
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A good director never knows where he will find his leading men.

Sometimes they appear in the perfect package of Brad Pitt or Gael Garcia Bernal, and sometimes they show up looking for a computer job in the production office or armed with carpentry skills.

By TERRY MORROW
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Call it an occupational hazard for a guy like Justin Hartley.

He was down to his shorts and the occasional T-shirt as Aquaman in the ill-fated "Smallville" spin-off that never aired, "Mercy Reef." Now he's all masked and wearing confining leather as the Green Arrow in "Smallville" this season.

Which suits him best?

"The Green Arrow costume," he says.

By BARBARA VANCHERI
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
After you've streaked and run wild in your underpants on screen, where do you go?

Will Ferrell raced straight into a smart comedy called "Stranger Than Fiction," co-starring Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Queen Latifah.

"Stranger Than Fiction" stars Ferrell as a solitary IRS tax auditor named Harold Crick who begins hearing a female voice narrating his every move, "accurately, and with a better vocabulary."

Turns out the voice belongs to a novelist who wants to kill off her character, Harold Crick.

By ROB OWEN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
He's been the voice of Eeyore, Hagar the Horrible and assorted G.I. Joe characters in various TV animation projects, but Peter Cullen's biggest role is undoubtedly that of Optimus Prime, leader of "The Transformers."

The newly-released 20th anniversary edition of 1986's "Transformers: The Movie" ($21.98, Sony Wonder) is just the latest robotic incursion in the marketplace.

By LISA HEYAMOTO
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The gossip mills have been churning for months: The Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe marriage is on the rocks. The publicly perfect pair were floundering in private, it was said.

And now Hollywood's Golden Couple in both status and hair color are about to be tarnished by a very un-golden divorce.

The rumored reason? Money.

By BETSY PICKLE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Elaine Hendrix won't be home in Los Angeles this weekend to see how her new movie, "Coffee Date," fares in its debut. The actress will be back home in East Tennessee for a date with her dad and other cancer survivors at the 13th annual Buddy's Race Against Cancer.

Hendrix says she's "probably going to do part of one of the walks," but mostly she's coming to support her father, Tom Hendrix of Halls, Tenn., and encourage participants in the 5K run/walk.

Tom Hendrix, a basketball standout for the University of Tennessee in the 1960s, got a break in dealing with his prostate cancer.

"He caught it real early," says Hendrix, who was born in Oak Ridge and grew up in Knoxville, Morristown and Atlanta.

By VINCE HORIUCHI
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
In a way, Scott Wolf moved to Utah to become a doctor.

The 38-year-old actor, who set hearts aflutter as Baily Salinger in the quintessential twenty-something ensemble "Party of Five," was hired in 2004 to play Dr.

By VINCE HORIUCHI
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
In a way, Scott Wolf moved to Utah to become a doctor.

The 38-year-old actor, who set hearts aflutter as Baily Salinger in the quintessential twenty-something ensemble "Party of Five," was hired in 2004 to play Dr.

By WAYNE BLEDSOE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Bernard Fanning knows that being a star in Australia is no guarantee of making it big in the United States.

For 16 years Fanning has been lead singer in the band Powderfinger _ multi-platinum sellers in Australia who seemed ready to break in the United States with the song "My Happiness" back in 2001.