Mel Chin and the artists of the Gala Committee led a "top secret" operation: hiding their art on the sets of "Melrose Place." Unbeknownst to millions of the drama's fans, every week their television sets became covert contemporary art galleries.
Actor Ben Stiller revealed on Tuesday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014. The tumor was surgically removed three months later, in September 2014, and Stiller has been cancer-free since.
"The Birth of a Nation" is a very good, at times powerful movie. But for the film to be considered an Oscar frontrunner -- a weight it has borne since triggering a bidding frenzy at the Sundance Film Festival -- would require a relative weak year.