Writers put brave face on bad sex awards
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There cannot be much good in bad sex, unless maybe it wins you a prize.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has come up with a relatively cowardly list, a list that -- in a year brimming to the top with violent masterpieces -- is too scared to pick up the gun.
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Writer-director Alexander Payne&#39;s acclaimed story of two men road tripping through Southern California wine country on the eve of a wedding took six awards, the group announced Sunday.
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UBUD, Indonesia  - Walk into a book store in Indonesia and chances are you will find shelf after shelf of books by a new breed of young, often glamorous, female writers mostly on one theme -- sex.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: The latest book of the year shortlist can't disguise the prejudices that threaten literature
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The latest in a long year of literary scandals just isn't that scandalous
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Since that brief moment of rave reviews for "The Nanny Diaries," the darling authors of the book industry have been poked, probed and dissected by the unforgiving New York literary world.
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Times must be getting tough for computer virus writers.
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Comedian Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography is up for two awards at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
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Novelists William Boyd, Neil Griffiths, Mark Haddon and David Mitchell are nominated for the Costa Book Awards.
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For the first time in the 36-year history of the Booker prize, the award has gone to a book with a strong gay theme, The Line of Beauty.
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A German film that sparked a scandal over its star's porn movie past and a Spanish yarn of gay friends traumatised by childhood sexual abuse head the field in Saturday's European Film Awards competition.
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When you&#39;re making an R-rated puppet movie with controversial marionette-on-marionette sex scenes, you&#39;d think you&#39;d have all the controversy they can stomach.
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The 58th Annual Emmy Awards marked a very good night for   counterterrorism agents on a tight schedule, virginal British monarchs   and slackers with bad karma. Freakishly attractive medical types, on the   other hand, did not fare as well.
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Some of the biggest names in Hollywood   had their egos bruised at this year's Toronto International   Film Festival.
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Novelist and social critic Tom Wolfe admits some of the sex scenes in his new book "I am Charlotte Simmons" are tasteless but he didn't expect to win a prize for the worst sex in fiction.
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Sex and the pornography industry takes center stage at next week's Berlin Film Festival after the leading actress in last year's Golden Bear winning film was publicly hounded over her earlier work as a German porn actress.