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Steven Seagal: on deadly tagline ground Steven Seagal's movies may be going straight to video, but he's the Hollywood tagline king. In fact, he may be the greatest producer of taglines in movie history. We suspect that Seagal is writing these himself, and...

The best taglines Here are my choices for the all-time-best taglines, judged for their ability to sell the movie, not for campiness or so-bad-it's-good qualities. I was born in the 1970s and watch a lot of bad science fiction and horror films, so your picks...

ARIES (March 20-April 18): What began as a difference of opinion is turning into something else—and it’s not nice. Cool it before things get out of hand. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You’re so focused on one point that you’re missing out on the big picture....

Travolta, wife back in Florida Freeport , Bahamas - Actor John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, have returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. The couple received an urn...

Oprah Winfrey has yet to comment on Herman Rosenblat and his debunked story of meeting his future wife in a Nazi concentration camp. But a brief disclaimer has been added to her Web site, Oprah.com, which still devotes substantial space to the Rosenblat...

Fighting homophobia The latest film by the Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker Debra Chasnoff will be screened next Wednesday as part of an educational campaign to combat gender stereotypes and homophobia among teenagers. "Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All...

An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and prejudice against Polanski. Polanski has been a fugitive in France...

Princes William and Harry said Tuesday they have been granted their own royal "household" by their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. The word doesn't mean a dwelling; it refers to staff who support royal family members in their public duties and private...

Lindsay Lohan says she hasn't split with DJ Samantha Ronson, despite media reports they had publicly sparred several times over the holidays. In a brief post on her MySpace blog, the actress, 22, wrote: "We did NOT break up!" She asked several media outlets "...

Defusing Armageddon Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad By Jeffrey T. Richelson W.W. Norton; 416 pages; $27.95 This frustrating book's most stimulating moment comes on Page 4 of the preface, when a scientist from Lawrence Livermore National...

Jeanne Friedman, who was in Albuquerque recently, saw a huge billboard for the Police Department asking "Changing Careers?" and picturing a uniformed police officer with a figure looking at him: George W. Bush. Meanwhile, Paul O'Curry suggests that this is a...

Not following the herd on sick-bison story Editor - Regarding Leah Garchik's column from Monday, the bison herd in Golden Gate Park has had tuberculosis and brucellosis since my Dad, DC "Bud" Basolo (the creator of the Beefalo and in 1972 owner of the largest...

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Damages: Drama. 10 p.m. Wednesdays on FX. It probably started earlier, but sometime around the third season of "The Wire" on HBO, its creator and writer, David Simon, half joked with enthusiastic critics that if they didn't stop...

When he pours, he reigns. I remember the first time I noticed a tagline for a Tom Cruise film, on an advertisement for his 1988 bottle-flipping bartender romance "Cocktail." From that moment on, I became a lifelong fan - not of Cruise's acting but of the...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)T.I.C. Trenchcoat in Common: Comedy. By Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Directed by Ken Prestininzi. With Rebecca White, Michael Shipley, Liam Vincent, Arwen Anderson, Anne Darragh and Lance Gardner. (Through Feb. 1. Encore Theatre Company,...

The best taglines Here are my choices for the all-time-best taglines, judged for their ability to sell the movie, not for campiness or so-bad-it's-good qualities. I was born in the 1970s and watch a lot of bad science fiction and horror films, so your picks...

Steven Seagal: on deadly tagline ground Steven Seagal's movies may be going straight to video, but he's the Hollywood tagline king. In fact, he may be the greatest producer of taglines in movie history. We suspect that Seagal is writing these himself, and...

Travolta, wife back in Florida Freeport , Bahamas - Actor John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, have returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. The couple received an urn...

Oprah Winfrey has yet to comment on Herman Rosenblat and his debunked story of meeting his future wife in a Nazi concentration camp. But a brief disclaimer has been added to her Web site, Oprah.com, which still devotes substantial space to the Rosenblat...

An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and prejudice against Polanski. Polanski has been a fugitive in France...