Game: "SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Tactical Strike" Publisher: Sony System: Sony Cost: $40 ESRB rating: T Review rating: 3 stars   'SOCOM: TACTICAL STRIKE' - In 'SOCOM: Tactical Strike,' commanders must direct the movements and actions of an entire four-man SEAL squad. CNS Photo courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment.    'THE ORANGE BOX' - In 'The Orange Box,' the player gets to pilot a gunboat through toxic waste while shooting down helicopters, or use a gravity gun to ... [full story]

The Writers Guild of America strike is just wrapping up its second week, and the casualties are starting to pile up. Late-night talk shows are in reruns, "The Office" has closed shop, and "24" is off the grid. But while the networks worry about further audience erosion and viewers worry about the fates of their favorite shows, reality-TV is preparing for a windfall, and Fox TV is probably erecting a mirror-ball shrine in Simon Cowell's ... [full story]

Angie Harmon was six months pregnant with her second daughter, Avery Grace, when she was contractually obligated to report on the set of "Inconceivable" - ironically, a drama series revolving around health care professionals at a state-of-the-art fertility clinic.   ANGIE HARMON - In the TV drama 'Women's Murder Club,' Angie Harmon plays police investigator Lindsay Boxer. CNS Photo courtesy of ABC. Complicating matters, she already had a 2-year-old girl, Finley Faith, at home and really didn't ... [full story]

After receiving several offers she couldn't refuse, Amy Brenneman reluctantly got into bed with the ABC network a couple of years ago. It was an amazing feat, as the comely actress was perfectly happy as a stay-at-home mom nursing a brand-new baby boy and keeping close tabs on a lovely, giggling, 4-year-old daughter skipping, jumping and staggering their huge, well-appointed Los Angeles home.   AMY BRENNEMAN - In 'Private Practice,' Amy Brenneman portrays Dr. Violet Turner, ... [full story]

"Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography" by David Michaelis; Harper; 655 pages; $35. The funny thing about this book is how unfunny it is. The artist as tortured soul is a familiar enough theme, but who knew Charles Schulz was such a mope?   'SCHULZ AND PEANUTS' - For 50 years, Charles Schulz drew 'Peanuts,' creating a new kind of comic strip that became more widely syndicated than any before it. A new biography says Schulz was ... [full story]

LOS ANGELES - The Eagles had just finished the second selection of their concert recently at the newly opened Nokia Theater, where they were wrapping up a six-show series, when a smiling Glenn Frey addressed the sold-out audience of 7,000.   WORTH THE WAIT - The Eagles' first new studio album in 28 years only costs $11.88 for a two-CD set ($10.88 if you download it). But you can't get it in any record stores. CNS ... [full story]

Hello, Jerry. That greeting can only be for "Bee Movie" king bee Jerry Seinfeld, yada, yada, yada.   BEE REAL - Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the animated family movie 'Bee Movie.' CNS Photo by Kelvin Jones. Who doesn't like "Seinfeld," the iconic TV sitcom that ran for nine seasons from '89 to '98? "I don't hear that," said the fastidious comedian, settling in for an early morning conversation, already dressed in immaculate jeans and ... [full story]

Jennifer Connelly is a beautiful Academy Award-winning actress with a special talent for projecting profound vulnerability. She is terrifically affecting in the drama "Reservation Road," a guaranteed tear-jerker starring Connelly and Joaquin Phoenix as loving parents who are shattered by an awful tragedy.   JENNIFER CONNELLY - Jennifer Connelly stars in Terry Gordon's hard-hitting drama 'Reservation Road.' CNS Photo courtesy of Macall Polay. On a drive home, they pause at a rest stop. Their 10-year-old son gets ... [full story]

CHICAGO - After almost being kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight this summer for wearing an outfit deemed too provocative for flying, Kyla Ebbert bares all in an online nude pictorial and video feature for Playboy.com The 23-year-old beauty boarded a flight at San Diego's Lindberg Field on July 3, and a Southwest employee asked her to change her outfit -- a miniskirt, a sweater over a tank-top, and high heels -- or get off ... [full story]

"Dreamboat Annie's" comin' 'round the bend again.   HEART BEATS ON - Heart guitarist and co-founder Nancy Wilson (left) says the 1976 'Dreamboat Annie' album 'was our calling card, the first big imprint of our band.' CNS Photo courtesy of Kevin Winter. The 1976 album that introduced the rock 'n' roll world to a rockin' sister act - Ann and Nancy Wilson's Heart - has turned 31 and gone multimedia. The Wilsons performed "Dreamboat Annie" in its ... [full story]

Last chilly, soggy spring, Kevin McKidd received an urgent phone call from an agent in his London agency's TV department to report that there was a very strong buzz about his work in Hollywood.   KEVIN MCKIDD - Kevin McKidd plays Dan Vasser, a journalist who travels backward in his own life through time in the TV thriller 'Journeyman.' CNS Photo courtesy of Trae Patton. Los Angeles producers who had tuned into his work as the conflicted, ... [full story]

Lee Pace was born in Chickasha, Okla. - just down the road a spell from Muskogee and Tulsa - but raised in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates for six of his early years. Jim and Charlotte Pace - a petroleum engineer and a domestic engineer - brought him back through New Orleans in time to graduate from high school in Houston.   LEE PACE - In 'Pushing Up Daisies,' Lee price, left, seen ... [full story]

Christina Applegate - who received an incredible career boost at the age of 15 as the very slutty, really stupid and impossibly blond high school student Kelly Bundy on "Married...with Children" - has been an actress all her life.   CHRISTINA APPLEGATE - Christina Applegate plays Samantha Newly, a hard-boiled vice president of a killer law firm who snaps out of an eight-day coma in a local hospital only to find that she has no memories ... [full story]