'24' actor in D.C. -- but not to fight bad guys
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Jack Bauer is known for fighting fictitious terrorists on the small screen. But the actor who plays him on the hit television series "24" came to the nation's capital Sunday not for high-level consultations, but to promote a real-life big-screen documentary.
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Take it from Michael Chertoff: The Homeland Security Department is no &quot;24.&quot; Chertoff, the department&#039;s secretary, said Friday he doesn&#039;t have a way-cool, state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit like the one on the Fox TV show. Bad guys aren&#039;t foiled on an hourly basis. And not everybody is romantically involved with co-workers.
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DES MOINES, Iowa A little-known actor from Iowa will be the next Man of Steel. Routh, who grew up in Norwalk, has appeared in the soap opera &quot;One Life to Live&quot; and just finished his first feature film, &quot;Deadly.
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What could have been a passionate scene in a movie really happened to Danny Glover. The movie star was arrested on Wednesday in Washington after a protest.
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Chalk one up for Latino Review. The site posted a scoop earlier this week claiming that little-known actor Brandon Routh (right) had landed the starring role in Bryan Singer&#39;s &quot;Superman.
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His inner sanctum faces one of the biggest turnovers since Nixon. But with an agenda already set, the cast of characters may matter less.
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Imagine Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Darth Vader, Haley Joel Osment as Harry Potter, or Nicolas Cage as Superman (that one really almost happened). No, sometimes Hollywood needs a fresh face up on screen, like Marlon Brando in &quot;A Streetcar Named Desire,&quot; Harrison Ford in &quot;Star Wars&quot; &amp;#151; or Brandon Routh in &quot;Superman Returns.&quot;
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With its fearsome record of kidnapping and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver Stone. The American filmmaker is jumping at a chance to meet with a group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
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The actor is trying hard to push awareness about the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
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It wasn&#39;t any lethal weapon that got Danny Glover on the wrong side of the law. The activism-minded actor was arrested Saturday outside Sudan&#39;s embassy in Washington, DC, during a protest against the African
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For an actor, itâs all about keeping things real. Not in the rapper sense of staying in touch with your roots, mind you, but in the ways that every good thespian seeks to take a fictional
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By John Dunbar Associated Press  WASHINGTON - Beaten up and strapped to a chair, once again it looks like the end for Jack Bauer, the hero of Fox Network's hit show "24." Using his wits (and his teeth), Bauer goes for the jugular - literally.
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He's not former President Bill Clinton, but Ben Affleck will do.
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Jeffrey Nordling, who  co-starred on &quot;Dirt&quot; this year, has joined the cast of Fox&#39;s  &quot;24&quot; as an FBI agent.
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For almost two decades, Christopher Reeve roamed the world cloaked with a perfect secret identity: the typecast Hollywood actor. Disguised by the bright spandex suits of his &quot;Superman&quot; movies, it was easy
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Warner Bros. has confirmed that they have chosen  the next Man of Steel to play the title role in the upcoming Superman movie. His name is Brandon Routh, an actor from Iowa who has appeared in the soap opera "One Life to Live," MTV's "Undressed,...
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For an actor who has been called  unpatriotric and even treasonous, Sean Penn is not backing away  from controversy.