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Movie Review: Stand Up Guys (2013)

Written by Anthony Sargon

When a movie stars three of the most respected performers in Hollywood, there's a certain standard that needs to be met. While "Stand Up Guys" manages to be mildly entertaining, it definitely doesn't live up to its full potential.

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Actor Jason London Arrested after U.S. Bar Fight

Authorities say actor Jason London has been arrested on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct after an Arizona bar fight.

Scottsdale police say London allegedly sneezed on a man who then asked him to apologize, but London refused and instead hit the man in the face.

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Judd Announces Separation from Franchitti

Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are separating after 11 years of marriage.

Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday report from People magazine that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish race car driver are ending their marriage.

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Singer Ke$ha to Debut MTV Reality Series in April

"Jersey Shore" might have ended, but another partygoer is lending her wild life to MTV: Ke$ha.

MTV announced late Tuesday that the pop singer will debut a documentary series, "Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life," in April.

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Actor Jim Nabors Marries Male Partner in Seattle

The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years.

Hawaii News Now reports that Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15.

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Mantel Wins Costa Award for 'Bring Up The Bodies'

Hilary Mantel won Britain's Costa Book Award on Tuesday for her novel "Bring Up The Bodies", which has now done the double having claimed the Booker Prize.

The judges described the book, the second part of a planned trilogy about king Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, as "head and shoulders" above the other contenders.

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Actor Neeson Awarded Freedom of N. Ireland Home Town

Hollywood star Liam Neeson went back to the stage where he first trod the boards as he was awarded the freedom of his home town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland on Monday.

The star of "Schindler's List" and "Michael Collins" started his acting career performing in pantomimes at the town's Braid Theatre.

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Whitney Houston's Mother has Words for Bobby Brown

Cissy Houston has a few words, and a few more, for Bobby Brown.

In "Remembering Whitney," the mother of the late Whitney Houston writes that from the start she had doubted whether Brown was right for her daughter. And she thinks that Whitney might not have ended up so "deep" into drugs had they not stayed together.

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'Hansel & Gretel' Tops N. America Box Office

A horror-movie twist on the classic "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale shot straight to the top slot at the North American weekend box office, industry figures showed Monday.

"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," in which the once lost brother and sister have grown up to become grim-faced bounty hunters, debuted in first place with $19.7 million, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

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Asia's Gambling Apartheid

The casino industry is booming across Asia, offering anyone looking for high-stakes action a wide choice of venues, from high-tech South Korea to the Himalayan nation of Nepal and communist Vietnam.

Anyone, that is, except South Koreans, Nepalese or Vietnamese.

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