The 62nd prime-time Emmy Awards (the top awards for television production in the US) last Sunday night proved to be full of surprises.

Say the word geisha and images of beautiful kimono-clad women serving green tea, reciting poetry and playing classical instruments may spring to mind.

For students majoring in art, theater and film, graduation is a festival event: They are showcasing their best work on campuses all over the country.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival thrust actress Fan Bingbing into the international spotlight–thanks to her performance on the red carpet, not on the big screen. While a string of fancy dresses may have impressed many, the film featuring her –director Wang Xiaoshuai’s Chongqing Blues–failed to take home an award.

Several hundred entertainment stars gathered to attract donations for earthquake-hit Yushu county during a China Central Television Station telethon on Tuesday evening.

How does the lotus fairy throw a banquet? What magical word can make a fox turn into an elf? What does the god of migrating birds look like?

One of Hollywood’s “celluloid ceilings” has been smashed now that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first female ever to win a Best Director Oscar.

EVERYONE knows that the CCTV Spring Festival Gala has long dominated Chinese New Year's Eve. Even now, as some people go looking around for alternatives for that night, the folks at CCTV are working hard to make this annual celebration more attractive.

If you want to see Zhou Libo's ongoing stand-up comedy at the Majestic Theater of Shanghai, you'll have to wait for a long time. All tickets have sold out soon, although the highest price is 380 yuan for his one-man show.

Those of you who grew up watching Astro Boy cartoons and want to keep alive the memory of those good old days just might find yourself disappointed with this. It's the film version of Astro Boy and this time around it doesn't help your nostalgia–it's just another computer-animated film.

Does rap have anything to do with physics? Twenty-three-year-old Kate McAlpine says – or, rather, sings – that it does. In the second half of last year, when LHC was preparing for the crash research, a video attracted netizens from all over the world. In the video, several people wearing LHC union suits dance while singing Rap, explaining LHC in detail.

the much-anticipated film The Founding of a Republic (建国大业) will be a little like stepping into an elevator crammed with people. And, mind you, these aren't just ordinary people, but big-time celebrities.

WERE time travel possible, we would know it already, since, according to Stephen Hawking, "they would already be here telling us about it". Others speculate that "they" have already been here. They visit quite frequently with their flying saucers and invasive experiments. The typical alien - big blank eyes, no hair, green - is a higher form of human being from the future.

The Oprah Winfrey Show added Chen Luyu to its list of famous co-hosts from around the world when the two talk show queens hooked up via satellite for the first time on Aug 26. "I was on Oprah's talk show because the world is focusing on China," says Chen, who was the first Asian host invited by Winfrey.

IF you are expecting to see a Chinese Superman when you sit down with your popcorn to watch the new science-fiction film Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg (机器侠), you'll be sorely disappointed. True, the robot De Ming (Alex Fong) featured in the movie isn't a bird or a plane, but neither is he a character that will linger in your mind beyond 2009.