Frightening scenes of Heath Ledger playing the Joker from the just released Batman movie, "The Dark Knight", have audiences on edge - nearly eight months after the actor was found dead in New York.

A very sad news is coming from UK this morning. 18-year-old Robert Knox, who plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” movie, was killed outside a Sidcup, England bar early Saturday morning.

Screen legend and conservative icon Charlton Heston, twice winner of an Academy Award during his 50 year film career, died Saturday, April 5 in Beverly Hills, California.

Troubled former AFL legend Wayne Carey has admitted to drinking alcohol after every game during his career.

Paul Scofield, the towering British stage actor who won international fame and an Academy Award for the film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86.

Ivan Dixon passed away on March 16 at age 76 in Charlotte, NC after a hemorrhage and complications from kidney failure.

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen were big winners at this year's Academy Awards ceremony Sunday. Their grisly crime tale No Country for Old Men earned four of Hollywood's top honors. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan has more on the Oscar winners from Hollywood.

Actor Ethan Hawke and his girlfriend Ryan Shawhughes are expecting their first child together, his rep confirmed to the Associated Press.

This morning, just an hour ago NBC aired Oscar Nominations for 2008 on a live broadcast. Motion Picture Association Of America has prepared very interesting movies for 2008 Oscar Nominations, particularly interesting oscar nominees being the foreign language films of "Mongol" (about Chingiz Khan) and "12" (very heated drama about justice).

TMZ broke the news this afternoon that Brad Renfro was found in his Los Angeles home this morning. The cause of death of Brad Renfro has not been determined, however, he had a history of drug abuse.

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2008 Golden Globe Award Winners for the year ended December 31, 2007.

Deborah Lin is a former model who reportedly became engaged to ‘Sopranos’ actor James Gandolfini while vacationing over the holidays in the Bahamas.