Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood
Comic hit in The IT Crowd and leading man in Bridesmaids, Chris O'Dowd is now pushing at an open door in Hollywood In January 2009, Chris O'Dowd bought a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. By this point, he was best known for his role in the Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd , written by Graham Linehan ( Father Ted , Black Books ), and had acted in a few British films of varying quality – the 2005 black ...

The Dictator: are we right to laugh?
Sacha Baron Cohen's film joins Team America and The Producers in depicting despots as one-dimensional buffoons. But why are we obsessed with satirising tyrants – and is it right to find them funny? Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over ...

Management Tips from the Hulk
The Hulk has already smashed his way across the pop culture landscape, and his corporate masters at Marvel Studios are planning a full-on Hulkathon, including??a new sphere for him to conquer: that of mascot and workplace helpmate: If Hulk's successful turnaround continues, Gitter says Marvel "will spin him off to a stand-alone program next year," ...

Hadassah At 100: Honoring America's Jewish Women Leaders (PHOTOS)
In 2004, Belle Simon, who lived in New York at the time, needed a kidney transplant. A longtime member of Hadassah’s national board, she was fortunate to have become acquainted with a fellow board member, Katie Edelstein, who lived across the country in Seattle.

More media regulation 'could harm UK websites' MailOnline publisher warns
Martin Clarke (pictured) said the British Press already regularly holds back from publishing information or photographs that rival foreign media organisations use.