Emmy Award-winning television, film, and stage actor Jimmy Smits is one of a very small handful of highly visible Hispanic actors. A co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, an organization whose mission is to establish...

Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television. Smits is perhaps best known for his long-running roles on the 1980s legal drama L.A. Law as Richard Dysart's youngest...

"We approached our development this year with a specific goal in mind—to be daring and different," said Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment. "The Fall and mid-season series we have selected offer creativity and variety with great potential to excite and surprise television audiences everywhere." They’re...

THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB RUNNING TIME 106 minutesDIRECTED BY Robin SwicordSTARRING Maria Bello, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits Robin Swicord’s The Jane Austen Book Club, from her own screenplay, based on the eponymous novel by Karen Joy Fowler, succeeds only partially and only...

Today is Monday, July 9, the 190th day of 2007. There are 175 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.On this date:In 1540, England's King Henry...

Taking a few chances to spice up a stodgy image, CBS said Wednesday it would air a musical next season and series about a vampire, kids taking over a town without adult supervision and 1970s-era swingers.The network also canceled its nuclear apocalypse drama "Jericho," another...