Thomas Sangster, a 17-year-old British actor, below, has been chosen by Steven Spielberg to play Tintin in the first of three planned films about the adventures of the young Belgian reporter and hero in comic strips and books created by Georges Remi (1907-83) under the pen name Hergé, Agence France-Presse reported.
Dan Fogler, start working out your vocal cords: the burly actor, below, who was a Tony winner for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," has been cast as the burly comedian Sam Kinison in a biographical film for HBO, Variety reported.
Read some of the touching tributes to actor below.
Now they will appear on television, played by two young actors (below) bearing the same zig-zag fringes that the characters have sported for more than half a century.
As hairless torsos have become the norm for male models and actors, below-the-neck hair removal has gone mainstream.
The actor Kevin Spacey, below, has been named Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of contemporary theater at Oxford's St. Catherine's College, The Associated Press reported on Friday.
The actor Alec Baldwin, below, set a record on Saturday as the most frequent host of "Saturday Night Live," returning for a 16th time and, in doing so, breaking a tie with Steve Martin.
The Tony Award-winning actor Norbert Leo Butz (below, in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels") has been cast in the role of Jeffrey Skilling, the disgraced former president of Enron Corporation, in the coming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's play "Enron".
Theater for a New Audience will also produce a "Macbeth" that will reunite the director Arin Arbus, right, and the actor John Douglas Thompson, below right, who enjoyed critical and audience praise for their 2009 production of "Othello".
The actor James McAvoy, below, will play the young Charles Xavier in the next installment of the mutant-loving (or hating, depending on whose side you're on) X-Men franchise, Variety reported.
The actor Charlie Sheen, below, avoided jail time and was instead given a sentence on Monday by a Colorado judge that included 30 days in a rehabilitation center after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor third-degree assault on his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, The Associated Press reported.
