The Kremlin

Staring Down Death: The Singular Career of Max von Sydow

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Gets Russian TV Show

Lights, camera, action. This Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder and hacker superstar, Julian Assange, will premiere his new show, "The World Tomorrow," on the Russian government's satellite channel, Russia Today. It will be broadcasted online and on air in English, Spanish and Arabic - three ... More >>

Putin's Kiss

Man on a Mission

Ghost Protocol lets Tom Cruise, the Bankable Movie Star, live another day

Man on a Mission

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded; Protests in Russia; Hollywood Gunman

​Three women received the Nobel Peace Prize today at a ceremony in Oslo. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, social worker Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkul Karman were all "chosen for their non-violent struggle against injustice, sexual violence and repression." ... More >>

Tom Cruise Denies Paying for Indian Extras to Cheer Him, And More Thursday Scientology Stats!

Each Thursday at 2 pm, Scientology staffers rush to turn in their weekly statistics. We like to do our part by rounding up the week's stories around the world and tallying up how the church fared. This week, we have items from India to Australia, but first, friendly correspondent Angry Gay Pope s ... More >>

Putin and Medvedev Play Badminton for Control of Russia

Last month, Dmitri Medvedev announced he will not seek reelection and plans to allow Vladimir Putin to run for the Russian presidency in 2012. Any suspicions of bad blood between the two can be put to rest after watching the above video of Putin and Medvedev engaged in what looks like the most tepi ... More >>

More Movie Stars In Drag: Some Hot, Some Terrifying

Boris Karloff, "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E."​ Thanks to Larry Myers for sending me the J.C. Suares-edited book, Hollywood Drag, which teems with these astonishing visuals.

Best Films of 1970!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 3 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris The time has not only come, it is probably long past, to survey the moviegoing year of 1970 (itself either the last year of the '60s or the first year of the '70s), to p ... More >>

Russian Spy Scandal Continues: Top Spy Betrayed Ring!

​Gifts that keep giving: The Russian spy story never ends! A man identified as "Colonel Shcherbakov" (tres Mission Impossible!) has been uncovered by Russian newspaper Kommersant as the person responsible for betraying the spy ring -- which, as you well know, most thrillingly included sexiest ... More >>

Russia Honors Inept Spies With "Important Achievement" Award

​Life is good for our dearly deported Russian spies, especially for sexy spy Anna Chapman, who not only is likely to make bank on a book deal but is also attending surprise space launches in Kazakhstan and becoming the "new celebrity face of a Russian bank" -- just like a Russian spy-ish vers ... More >>

The Lords of the Rings

In Salt Lake Olympic Scandal, The Accused Are Less the Problem Than Some of Their Judges