The most passionate Spider-Men, Storm Troopers, Harry Potters and other pop-culture fanatics are headed south for their annual pilgrimage. Comic-Con, the country’s biggest comic-book convention, begins Thursday at the San Diego Convention Center.

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Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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If the first “X-Files” movie landed in the midst of the TV show’s run and near the height of its popularity, the second — far more modest in scope and ambition — comes six years after the program signed off. Both, however, share a common trait: Namely, neither would qualify as a better-than-average episode of the series. Director/franchise creator Chris Carter gives devoted fans plenty of small moments to swoon over, but the appeal should be limited beyond those fervent loyalists. So while the opening should be reasonably robust, this remains a movie primarily reserved for those wanting to believe in it.

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Bob Hope and Bing Crosby might be on the road to nowhere if they tried to team up today the way they did in old Hollywood.

Today’s funny folks reunite now and then, like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in “Step Brothers,” a follow-up to their 2006 comedy “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

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Hannah Montana may be the biggest thing on television, but in real life, her portrayer, Miley Cyrus, is a typical teenager who fights with her brother and gets grounded. The difference is, Cyrus sometimes actually enjoys being confined to quarters.
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Shepherd tells the Christian women’s magazine “Precious Times” that she had such low self-esteem at one point that she was “sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count.”
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Batman ’s Christian Bale was arrested in London Tuesday, following assault allegations reportedly made by his own mother and sister.

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In the midst of fighting cancer, Patrick Swayze is looking like his old self again - healthy, happy and hot.

“I’m a miracle dude … I don’t know why,” he told photographers and fans as he left Los Angeles Airport on Sunday afternoon.

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Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.
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*Janet Jackson (and Justin Timberlake)’s infamous 2004 “wardrobe malfunction” won’t cost CBS stations a thing after Monday’s decision by a U.S. appeals court to overturn the FCC’s $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp.
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