From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, "Shutter Island" is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. Based on the epic novel "Shutter Island" by Lehane, the Massachusetts-shot flick [...]

Justin Timberlake, who co-stars in the upcoming partially made-in-Boston flick based on local author Ben Mezrich's tell-all book about the founding of Facebook, picked up his Man of the Year pudding pot on Friday, Feb. 5 during a roast at the New College Theatre orchestrated by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. But, JT did manage to get in a jab regarding the locally shot film "The Social [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Brittany Murphy died of community acquired pneumonia and multiple drug intoxication, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner said in a statement released  on Thursday. The actress, who died on December 21, 2009, is also listed as having had iron deficiency and anemia, at her time of death. According to the coroner’s office, the death was an accident – but the “injury” occurred because [...]

Justin Timberlake has now added acting to his resume. The former member of the boy band *NSYNC was on the set of "The Social Network" filming on location in Los Angeles on January 30, 2010 a day before his 28th birthday. Also spotted on the set was co-star Jesse Eisenberg. "The Social Network" chronicles the founding of the popular social networking group, Face book, which claims [...]

A snowy motorcade through Harvard Square. A bawdy drag queen show. A brass pot to put on the mantel. It all added up to one memorable afternoon for actress Anne Hathaway as she received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 60th Woman of the Year. In time-honored Pudding tradition, Hathaway, 27, was brought onstage at Harvard’s New College theater for a 30-minute roast hosted by Pudding pooh-bahs [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway is getting a good-natured ribbing from Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals student drama troupe. The group’s Woman of the Year is being honored Thursday with a parade down Massachusetts Avenue near the university followed by a roast where she will receive her pudding pot from Harvard men in drag. Hathaway was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2009 for [...]