Matthew Mcconaughey

"Magic Mike" charmed the pants off audiences, and its star, Matthew McConaughey, collected some of the best notices of his career as stripper elder statesman Dallas. Reviews of the revue found Britain's the Guardian comparing his performance to Oscar-winning turns as an MC by Gig Young ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and Joel Grey ("Cabaret"), and a breathless - perhaps panting - tribute in the Washington Post called him the best thing about the movie. But the tanned and ripped stud who drove audiences and some critics into fits of lust is not the man who sits down at a table at L'Ermitage.

Newlyweds Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, recently appeared in full matrimonial regalia on the cover of People magazine, but as the actor revealed Tuesday to Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” the marriage almost didn't happen. McConaughey explained how he proposed to Alves, his girlfriend of six years and the mother of his two children. At his family's Christmas gift exchange, he wrapped up her engagement ring inside a series of boxes and made sure she was the last person to go. When Alves finally opened her ring, McConaughey got down on one knee and proposed: “Will you marry me and take my name?

MGMT's 'Congratulations' : This Brooklyn duo outraged much of its American Apparel-clad fan base with this bent follow-up to 2008's "Oracular Spectacular," but it couldn't be more wrong. A stylistic leap from the band's dance-mad debut, this dense album drops references to record-nerd obscurities such as Television Personalities that sail over our heads, but we also can't stop listening. How did MGMT make a record that sounds like the best of 1981 in 2010? Matthew McConaughey : If you've been on an airplane or watched HBO for any length of time, you've encountered the cinematic perpetual motion machine that is McConaughey.

Matthew McConaughey has just cracked open his second Corona when the man wearing Mardi Gras beads and a Village People policeman's cap approaches his car. "Do you know Duane?" the inebriated-looking man asks with suspicion, poking his head inside the window and gesturing to the house the car happens to be parked in front of. "Because I'm just giving you a word to the wise. He's hypersensitive about security and things like that. He'll have his people come and shake you down. " It's 9:30 on a Tuesday night, and McConaughey is sitting in the back of a black SUV with crime novelist Michael Connelly.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of July 22 - 28 in PDF format This week's TV Movies    This Morning Adam Shankman; Brad Thor. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Reports from London; chef Mark Bittman; eating like an Olympian; facts about London; Tony Danza. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Will Ferrell; Dr. Mehmet Oz; Michael Psilakis; Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias. (N) 7 a.m. KABC Live With Kelly Will Ferrell; Emily Maynard; Andrew Zimmern; co-host Michael Buckley.

The Steve Carell-Jim Carrey movie "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" will be the opening night film at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, which opens March 8. SXSW will also see premieres of an "Evil Dead" remake, a new movie from director Joe Swanberg and documentaries about Napster and the Beatles' secretary.  Comedy, genre subjects and music documentaries are the traditional strengths of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, and...

Between meetings and incoming texts on his BlackBerry one rainy afternoon in Venice, Matthew McConaughey tucked a discreet plug of tobacco behind his lower lip and said of himself: "When I was a late teenager, early 20s, just getting into this, I was like, 'OK, to be something other than oneself is real acting or better acting.' Then I went, 'Wait a minute.'

"A Time to Kill" director Joel Schumacher calls Matthew McConaughey "my Frankenstein." But only tongue in cheek, he swears. "I didn't create Matthew," Schumacher said of the 26-year-old actor starring in the film version of John Grisham's first and favorite novel, released last Wednesday. "I just gave him the break he deserved. Everyone thinks that we were the engine, but it was his performance that caused the buzz. You can't take someone out of the woodwork and make them a star.

Richard Linklater is trying hard to be Zen about his most recent experience in the unforgiving world of independent film. The director of "Slacker" and "Before Sunrise" — now 50 and long removed from the time, in the mid-1990s, when he was hailed as the filmmaking voice of a generation — has just completed his 16th picture. A low-budget dark comedy called "Bernie" starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, the movie was a steep climb even by his standards of scrappy filmmaking.

A paparazzo trying to photograph and videotape actor Matthew McConaughey at the beach Saturday told police he was attacked by a mob of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean and struck him. The 29-year-old paparazzo from Santa Monica told sheriff's deputies that a large group of surfers near Paradise Cove in Malibu approached him and other paparazzi about 2 p.m. and demanded that they stop taking pictures and videotaping.