The "Mouseketeers" were an assortment of variously gifted, mostly non-professional California kids selected by Walt Disney as the core around which the Mickey Mouse Club, Disney's second network television venture (after...

Mickey Mouse began as Mortimer Mouse in 1927, drawn by the imaginative hands of Walt Disney. By the 1930s, the Mouse was well established as part of American culture, and clubs had sprung up across America. On Saturdays, children and parents hurried to...

Ryan Gosling could be the Sundance Kid, emerging out of that indie film festival with such gritty dramas as "The Believer," "The United States of Leland" and "Half Nelson," which earned him an Academy Award nomination.In those films, he played a Jewish teen posing as...

“My mom and sister are acting like they won the lottery. They’re going crazy,” said the actor Ryan Gosling of his two Oscar-night dates, six days before the Academy Awards. Mr. Gosling is nominated for Best Actor in an already talent-heavy category. There’s...

On stapled, slick magazine covers across Food Town, behold the randy, dancing boy, smooth-whiskered, pink-cheeked Justin Timberlake, gaping, blinking for his youth and freedom, while a glowering, suddenly dark-haired, Demi Moore’d version of Cameron Diaz, 34 but somehow older, pouts and jangles the keys to...